Kent Andersson
Lieutenant Colonel
Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor
- Kent.Andersson@fhs.se
- +46 8-55342836
- Department of Systems Science for Defence and Security
- Systems Science for Defence and Security Division
- Systems Science for Defence and Security
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Kent Andersson is Lieutenant Colonel in the Swedish Armed Forces and senior lecturer in Systems Science for Defence and Security.
His research interest is in systems for defence and security, particularly in the development of military capabilities and in methods for assessing the utility of technologies involved. He is currently also the co-supervisor of Karl Kindström-Andersson in his research project Concept of Operation and tactical Modelling for Tradespace Exploration, and of Jan Lundberg in his research project A Conceptual Framework for Design of Complex Systems of Systems. He is also the external supervisor of Travis Hallen in his research project The Swedish Model of Air Power: The Cold War Development of the Swedish Air Force.
Background
Kent Andersson holds a Ph.D. in military sciences from the National Defence University of Finland, a licentiate degree in material optics and a M.Sc. in engineering physics from Uppsala University. He has ten years of experience as a lecturer in military-technology and more than twenty years of experience as an officer in the Swedish armed forces, mainly from working with development of command and control systems supporting tactical and joint command levels, but lately from the position as chief scientist in the air staff.
Latest publications
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Emerging technology calls for a systemic view on military capabilityPart of 1st International Workshop on the Foundations and Applications of Capabilities in Enterprises, Transformations, and ESG Initiatives (FACETE 2023), Aachen, 2023
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How can systemic perspectives on defence capability development be strengthened?Part of Defence Studies
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Military Innovation as the Result of Mental Models of TechnologyPart of Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies
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Does the method for Military Utility Assessment of Future Technologies provide utility?Part of Technology in society
Research projects
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IFS 2019Kent AnderssonIFS 2019Kent Andersson