Design of Evaluating Criteria of Military Research and Invention Projects for Identification of Manufacturing Potentiality: A Case Study on Armament of the Royal Thai Army

Abstract

With the limited and uncertain amount of allocated budget by the government, the research and development project with self-dependency based policy is considered as the key issue of the Royal Thai Army. This paper proposes the criteria for performance evaluation of the military-armament research and invention projects sponsored by the Royal Thai Army in enhancing the self-dependency policy in terms of the manufacturing potentiality. This research implements a combined methods of brainstorming and voting analytic hierarchy process (VAHP) based on the opinions of the expert groups for criteria selection. The findings are principally four main criteria consisting of the aspects on tactic, logistics, science & engineering, and comparative standards including totally 15 sub-criteria. For performance criteria validation, the evaluation form is developed using the obtained weights of the proposed criteria and 0-10 scaling score for performance measure of the particular criteria. The evaluation is conducted for the selected past projects. The comparison result reveals the proposed criteria have a better discrimination of the project’s performance than the current method.