فصلنامه علوم و فنون نظامی
پیاپی 22 (زمستان 1390)

Today, the competitive circumstances and atmosphere in the organizations is more complex than ever and efficient knowledge management has come to the competition border. Of its important characteristics are the progressive and unexpected increase in the amount of information and, more importantly, the pace of the information becoming obsolete. Accountability and consistency are very necessary to survive in such an atmosphere; so the organizations try to identify the opportunities and make use of them to increase profitability through knowledge management. One of these opportunities is the RQ-170 UAV which technologically contains lots of knowledge for the country. The main aim of this paper is to present a framework for the knowledge obtained from the RQ-170 and the strategic management of that knowledge in the defense industries. The research is conducted in a descriptive method. The information is obtained from books, research papers and other related literature in libraries and internet sites. The fundamental and infrastructural basis effective in knowledge management and a framework for the knowledge obtained from the RQ-170 and the strategic management of this knowledge in the defense industrieshas been identified.

Control and preparedness to face threats and taking advantage of future opportunities is very necessary in every organization. Joining the World Trade Organization has given the organizations and companies an important role, therefore their success depends upon and investigation of weaknesses, strengths, threats and opportunities and formulating the related strategy. In order for the organization to achieve its goals, human force is an irreplaceable resource in creating a competitive advantage and organizations and companies intend to plan and execute a suitable performance evaluation system. This paper tries to investigate the performance evaluation indices through a suitable method and make grounds for the correct planning and execution of a suitable evaluation system by means of presenting appropriate criteria and indices. In the conceptual model of this research, the performance evaluation criteria include the input-based, the output-based, the behavior-based, the value-based, the entrepreneur-based, the development-based and the customer-based criteria, each of which include several indices. Experts in 15 state and private sector organizations were questioned on the necessity and importance of each of the identified elements. The results confirm the collected data and intensify the use of the 360 degree approach.

The purpose of thispaper, in addition to the study of decision making process in management, is to introduce and explain its application in the process of analysis, measurement, and prediction of the changes and its effects on other variables such as expense, quality and time. Project managers make lots of decisions in the beginning and during the process of production so as to make sure of high quality in performance. The manager’s personal experiences seem not to be enough. Therefore, the managers use different methods of modeling and simulation to make sure of work standards. Applied simulation is a technical process which makes the display of processes, resources, goods and services possible in the computer dynamic model. In fact, computer simulation is a powerful device for supporting management decision and reducing risk in decision process by means of evaluation and analysis of different strategies. In this paper, first, the characteristics of simulation technique are explained and then the method of its application is shown. The application of the presented techniques can reduce the expenses and the risk of the right decision in the organization and improve the processes and outcomes in the organization. In the next step, the techniques of computer simulation will be explained.

War planners know that the conduct of a single-force operation, based on only one of the aspects of ground, aerospace or the sea is entitled to failure or great loss and casualty. Therefore, operations are planned and conducted in a joint manner. The application of traditional arenas causes the enforcement of hard power in the battlefield, while a considerable part of the enemy's combat power is the morale, feelings and motivation of the man power which must be demolished by soft power. The commanders of joint operations are taking advantage of the soft power and hard cyber warfare by adding the cyber space as the fifth dimensionof the battlefield to traditional arenas and have achieved a new alloy called the intelligent power. The unique cyber indices cause the power to scatter and increase the will to fight an asymmetric war in the state and non-state actors, thus they have brought about challenges for the great military powers. They inevitably plan and conduct combined operations by developing their previous military treaties or creating new international ones to achieve relative dominance.

The organizational knowledge is said to be the most valuable capital in any organization today. Organization knowledge is divided into two types of explicit and implicit knowledge, which has the greater share. The important thing is to transform implicit knowledge to explicit knowledge and it is done through knowledge management. Within thirty years of the Islamic Revolution, the Islamic Republic of Iran Army has gained invaluable experience regarding the diversity of threats. This requires generating new knowledge (turning implicit knowledge to explicit knowledge) and its turnover by moving on the knowledge path, considering the emphasis made by the Supreme Leader. One way of using experience as new knowledge and transferring it to the next knowledge is knowledge management in the organization. This can be done through different approaches. This paper will define knowledge management and its approaches and strategies in the first place, and then, will define thought chambers and its special tasks. Finally, this paper claims that the thought chambers, as semi-structural potential along with hierarchical structures of the armed forces, can assist the knowledge management of the IRI Army as one of the key approaches.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is experiencing a very special situation. On the one hand it must realize its responsibilities in the 1404 vision and on the other hand it has to play and active role in the national and international scenes based on the orders issued by the Supreme Leader. This paper tries to introduce strategic thought as a necessity so as to bring the expectations of the Supreme Leader into realization. Types  and definitions of thought are presented and then strategy, strategic management, strategic planning and phases of strategy formulation have been explained. Then the functions of strategic management have been clarified. The current global situation and the fact that the identification of paradigms, opportunities and the ways of using them are some of the main functions of strategic thought clarify the significance of developing and enforcing strategic thought in the IRI Army personnel.

In the persent command and control systems which genrally act based on the OODA loop, the observation and identification systems are the premier and most essential parts. The recognition of the identification process and its strengths and weaknesses is made possible through constant and long-term study and the the simulation of detection processes makes it easier. This paper models the detection process completely through studying and simulating the present architecture of domestic C4I systems used in the military, especially in detection and identification section, and processes a new architecture for them. In the air threats detection and identification section, a statistical model of the process was explored and then the Bayesian method with random data generation via Arena software was used. The simulation results indicate a %7.3 improvement in the decision-making in propsed system compared to the present system.