Abstract:
The objectives of this research are to study the obstacles in the development of Royal Thai Navy mine warfare center including causes and effects. This research is performed by reviewing the implementations of other navies mine warfare centers in order to be able to specify capabilities required for a successful mine warfare center. These capabilities include the knowledge management for mine warfare operations, mine warfare planning capabilities, command control capabilities. This research finds that the main obstacles in developing successful mine warfare capabilities lies into two main categories 1) Technologies: due to the lack or out of date of necessary systems for mine warfare operations (including both software and hardware) and 2) People: the lack of reliable personal development plan. Using software engineering theory, RTN concept of mine warfare operations, study of Australian navy mine warfare center (MINTACS) and general management theory, this research is able to clearly define technology development approaches. For the people development approaches, this research reviews the operating processes and procedures in a mine warfare center and concludes that the personal development plan must cover knowledge, vision, and skills and can be defined into 7 steps according CIPPA development model. The development model for mine warfare center will greatly benefit the Royal Thai Navy and Thailand in general, since self-developed mine warfare center can increase national security capability with less cost compare to purchasing from abroad.