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Operational Concept Development. A Concept of Operations (ConOps) describes the vision for the operation of a system or system-of-systems. It provides conceptual insight from the userâs perspective, and ultimately is used to derive requirements for supporting services, systems, technologies, tools, and procedures.
This means that we must create another type of definition, called an operational defini-tion. An operational definition translates the verbal meaning provided by the theoretical definitionChapter 2: Elements of Scientific Theories: Concepts and Definitions. 14 Part 1 / Philosophy of Science, Empiricism, and the Scientific Method into a prescription for measurement.