Future studies of developing defensive researches in the I.R.I Army

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to answer the fundamental question of what the suitable strategies are for developing defensive researches in the IRI Army. Based on its objectives and nature, the research is descriptive and based on its outcomes and consequences, it is an applied-developmental paper. The statistical population of the research is a 900-people body of research experts in IRI Army and some of the authorities in the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, of which 385 people were selected as the sample population using the simple random sampling. The required data was collected from the sample population via a questionnaire. In the first-phase, data was analyzed through a single-sample t-test to identify the present condition of the parameters. The basis of the identification of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the non-industrial research system of the IRI Army was the David's modeling and Improved David's Modeling. Then, using the TOPSIS technique, the type of current strategy of IRI Army was specified and new strategies were proposed. The results indicate that the present strategy is defensive and the most suitable strategy for reinforcing the non-industrial research system was determined to be achieved by enforcing the required infrastructures, improving and revising the processes, developing and publicizing the research culture, developing the committed human capital and supporting of the commanding system (top authorities) in order to generate new thoughts and transform IRI Army to a learning organization and finally getting a feedback.