Priority Experience of Science and Technology Requirement in Defense Organization: Capability Approach

Science is the main pillar of growth and development. For Encountering with environmental conditions, Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces should manage their scientific, knowledge and time resources, which are their intellectual capital. Because of restriction and irreversibility of resources, including funds, human and time resources, it is impossible to deal with all of the sciences and technologies. Specifying of required sciences and technologies, prevent organization from divided and non-required activities. The main objective of the research is introduction of proper process for extraction and prioritizing of required sciences in military organizations and its subsidiary objectives are determination and prioritizing of required sciences and technologies. The research is an applied- developmental one and in terms of method is a descriptive and survey research. Due to the need for expertise evaluations, the research was performed in a mixed (quantitative and qualitative) approach and 10 expertise meetings were held inviting 20 experts. Statistical society of the research is 250 people and sample size was 70 people according to Chocran formula. Cronbach's alpha of questionnaire was 0.987. The results of the research indicates that required sciences and technologies in military organizations can be extracted by capability based approach. Required capabilities of organization should be extracted from tasks of organization.