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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.
An operational definition is a process by which the characteristics of a concept can be defined, including identification and classification. It consists of the methods or tests that are used in analyzing a given variable or concept, which can be used to confirm the validity of the information obtained. simple example that shows the relationship between a conceptual definition and an operational definition: if the concept is weight, an operational definition could be the weight of an object as measured on a scale.