SEM-based Evaluation Method of Contribution to System Warfighting for Weapons and Equipments

Effective evaluation of contribution to system warfighting(CSW)is a groundwork for demonstration of weapons and equipments development,and for operational test and operational equipment support as well.This paper explores the quantitative method of contribution indexes for enhancing both operational effect and operational efficiency,and reducing the operational cost,analyses the qualitative relationship between operational effect,operational efficiency,operational cost and the combat capability,puts forward contribution evaluation index system of the operational weapons and equipments system,sets up CSW evaluation model of the operational weapon equipment system based on structural equation modeling(SEM)and verifies using numerical example.