Abstract. Agility is regarded as important by many modern defense forces,
but the concept of agility is defined in many different
ways. Flexibility, speed, and adaptability are some of the characteristics
often associated with agility. In this paper, we outline a
taxonomy which distinguishes six kinds of agility: tactical/operational agility, organisational
agility, deployment agility, sustainment agility, acquisition agility, and conceptual agility.
We describe some candidate metrics for the first two kinds
of agility, and provide a number of examples illustrating them.
These metrics can be used as a starting-point for dialog
on trade-offs between the different kinds of agility.
Related topics:
Network centric warfare, operations research, command systems
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