Application of real options to strategic management of Military Satellite Communications

AIAA Space 2001 Conference and Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Weigel, Annalisa L ^a   Hastings, Daniel E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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References (6)

1. Department of Defense Space Architect, "Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) Architecture Briefing", 1996.
2. CRAF is the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, an arrangement whereby the U.S. government provides commercial airlines with peacetime DoD airlift contracts in exchange for their participation in airlift during a crisis. For more information on CRAF, see Chenoweth, Mary E., The Civil Reserve Air Fleet and Operation Desser/Shield/Dessert Storm: Issues for the Future, RAND Report, 1993. For more information on CRAFlike possibilities for MILS ATCOM, see Dobbs, Camille O. and Justin Keller, "Commercial Communications Analogy to Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF)," EEEE, 1999.
3. Amram, M. and N. Kulatilaka, Real Options: Managing Strategic Investment in an Uncertain World, Harvard Business School Press: Boston, MA, 1999.
4. Trigeorgis, L., Real options in Capital Investment: Models, Strategies and Applications, Praeger: Westport, CT, 1996.
5. Neely, J. and de Neufville, R., "Hybrid Real Options Valuation of Risky Product Development Projects", in submission to International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management, 2000.
6. Brealey, R. and S. Myers, Principles of Corporate Finance, Irwin McGraw-Hill: Boston, MA, 2000.