Choose the best new vessel for the Brazilian Navy

A public Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) decision built with decisionpoint.io: 9 criteria, 3 alternatives, and 64 pairwise judgments.

Overall ranking

1. CV-3000 — 39.3%
2. CV-2600 — 31.8%
3. Barroso — 28.9%

Criteria weights

• Construction Time — 21.9%
• Initial Cost — 19.4%
• Life Cycle Cost — 19.4%
• Primary Cannon — 10.8%
• AAW Missiles — 7.3%
• Action Radius — 6.3%
• Fuel Endurance — 6.3%
• Autonomy — 6.3%
• Secondary Cannon — 2.3%

Overall consistency ratio: 0.00 (within the 0.1 acceptability threshold).

AI-generated summary

Generated by AI from this decision's data; may not reflect the latest judgments.

Results summary

The CV-3000 comes out with a clear lead over the CV-2600, scoring 39.3 percent versus 31.8 percent. The deciding factor is primary cannon capability, where the CV-3000 enjoys a substantial advantage of 6.0 percentage points. This weapon system alone contributes 7.6 percentage points to the CV-3000's overall score. The CV-3000 also performs well on construction time and initial cost, both important factors for the Navy's procurement. Notably, the CV-3000 has no weaknesses relative to the runner-up across the criteria evaluated.

The CV-2600 holds its own on some operational measures like fuel endurance and autonomy, but these play a smaller role in the overall decision. Check the sensitivity analysis to see whether the primary cannon weighting would need to shift significantly to change the ranking.

Sensitivity summary

CV-3000 holds a clear lead of 7.5 percentage points over CV-2600. The top choice holds unless weights move substantially. All three criteria that could flip the result require large shifts: Construction Time would need to increase to about 61.9 percent of the group weight, while both Initial Cost and Life Cycle Cost would each need to rise to about 85.5 percent. These thresholds are well beyond normal reweighting, suggesting CV-3000's advantage is firm across the current scoring unless the Navy fundamentally reprioritizes cost and schedule factors at the expense of performance and capability criteria.

Decision criteria

• Action Radius
• Fuel Endurance
• Autonomy
• Primary Cannon
• Secondary Cannon
• AAW Missiles
• Initial Cost
• Life Cycle Cost
• Construction Time

Alternatives

• Barroso
• CV-2600
• CV-3000

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