Identification and Assessment of Defensive Spatial Data Infrastructure (DSDI) Development Risks

Spatial data is one of the most important and sensitive decisionmaking and planning factors in command and management of military systems. Fulfillment of the mission and goals of the military depends to timely, accurate, applicatory and integrated spatial data. During the past decade spatial data infrastructure (SDI) development has been known one of the most important components of optimal management of spatial data. However, there are a lot of risks with development of SDI in organization. This paper aims to address the identification and assessment of defensive Spatial Data Infrastructure (DSDI) development risks. In this regard, we have extracted the 38 risks in five dimensions of organizational, technical, spatial data, human resources and security
using by studying the literature and doing exploratory deep interview. Then Risk Priority Number (RPN) was calculated for all of 38 risks using by questionnaire and Failure Mode Effects Analysis methods. The results showed that security risks has the highest risk
(RPN=47.55) and spatial data, organizational, technical and human resources risks were ranked respectively after it. Also among the 8 superior ranked risks, the type of security, spatial data and organizational risks were contributed from the majority of the cases.
At the end research, fourteen strategies were presented to successful DSDI planning and development.