A trade study is a method for making a decision among competing alternatives. See the instructions within the documentation for details on how to use this tool. See the reference section for details on the methodology and calculations.

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### Criteria

Add the criteria that will be used to judge the alternatives, and rate how important each criteria is.

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### Performance

Rate each alternative for how well it performs against each criteria.

Update Performance

### Results

Save all trade study inputs to a file. You can later upload this file to pick back up where you left off.

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