[Sample B: Approval/Signature Sheet] - George Mason University

The research and the development of the model were based on strategic policies
and doctrinaire documents so as to build a fundamental objectives hierarchy intended to
guide the accomplishment of the most important strategic goals of the BAF.
The attributes were defined by elicitation and research in order to indentify the
most important aspects needed to measure the achievement of each objective. The final
qualitative model should be a simple, but yet complete depiction of the decision problem.
The definition of the quantitative model was done using elicitations and expert
judgments to check independence conditions, utilities and weights. The final model used
MAUT to aggregate all the measures using additive and multiplicative utility functions.
A hypothetical decision situation was built in order to demonstrate the use of the
model and check its robustness through a sensitivity analysis. The alternatives were
ranked according to their contribution to the operational capability of the BAF. The
variations on the fundamental objectives weights did not cause significant variations in
the rank of the alternatives, thus proving the robustness of the model.
At last, a cost effectiveness analysis was conducted, providing important insights
to the DM, which could even change the alternatives rank, according to budget and
political inputs.
The aim of this work is to improve the current methodology used to analyze and
prioritize OCRs related to aircraft systems, by guiding the process using a systematic
method based on strategic policies, in order to avoid the misuse of resources and provide
guidance for the acquisition process.
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