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8. CONCLUSION
Brazil is a huge country with vast natural reserves, mainly located in the Amazon
region and the South Atlantic. In the past decade its economic growth has motivated an
increase in the Defense expenditure and the publication of the NSD, focused on the
modernization and development of the Brazilian Armed Forces.
The acquisition and development of modern defense systems are being fostered
by government policies in order to replace obsolete equipments and improve the BAF‘s
operational capability.
In this scenario it is mandatory to identify the required capabilities needed to
accomplish the strategic objectives of the organization. The correct choice of the aircraft
systems that will be in use by the BAF in the next decades needs to be a careful and
detailed process to assure the best use of the available resources.
The AFCS is a key organization in this process, represented by the OPS, which
analyses the OCRs and is responsible for the important task of determining priorities
among them and deciding the systems that will continue their life cycle.
The model proposed in this thesis has the purpose to provide the BAF with a
qualitative and quantitative analysis of this decision problem, in order to help DMs to
rank alternatives and define priorities among them.
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