Using Visualization to Support Investment & Divestment Decisions in the Canadian Armed Forces
Volume 12, Issue 3 (2014), pp. 477–494
Pub. online: 4 August 2022
Type: Research Article
Open Access
Published
4 August 2022
4 August 2022
Abstract
Abstract: Many nations’ defence departments use capabilitybased planning to guide their investment and divestment decisions. This planning process involves a variety of data that in its raw form is difficult for decisionmakers to use. In this paper we describe how dimensionality reduction and partition clustering are used in the Canadian Armed Forces to create visualizations that convey how important military capabilities are in planning scenarios and how much capacity the planned force structure has to provide the capabilities. Together, these visualizations give decisionmakers an overview of which capabilities may require investment or may be candidates for divestment.