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Executive Summary
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... Simultaneously, market conditions have changed, with customers demanding more and global competition becoming increasingly intense. A changing international security environment, the need for more advanced weapons systems, and limited resources are placing similar pressures on defense acquisition.' Decision makers at the U.S.
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... commercial benefit from these capabilities. To complete its task, the committee identified relevant trends and their impact on defense acquisition needs; current use and support for use of M&S within DOD; lessons learned from commercial manufacturing; three cross-cutting and especially challenging uses of M&S technologies; and the areas in which basic research is needed in M&S in order to achieve the desired goals for manufacturing and defense acquisition.
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... Recommendation. In order to realize DOD's vision for the use of M&S in manufacturing and acquisition generally, and for SBA in particular, DOD should conduct or support basic research and development in the following areas: 4 "SBA" is defined by the Simulation Based Acquisition Industry Steering Group as "an acquisition process in which DOD and industry are enabled by robust, collaborative use of simulation technology that is integrated across acquisition phases and programs."
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... · Domain-specific models: including models of emerging areas such as information operations and operations other than war; The military is highly reliant on system-of-systems capability to maintain superiority in a battlefield where sophisticated and effective weapons are proliferating among potential adversaries. M&S technologies are essential to assessing the effectiveness of the system-of-systems in complex warfighting environments, identifying weaknesses in interoperability, and developing operational concepts to use these advancing capabilities.
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... This infrastructure should include the following: · Common repositories that contain data, models, tools, and environments that persist from project to project and that can support multiple phases of a program; · A knowledge base that represents a well-organized information resource in the theory, science, engineering, and craft required for successful M&S development; · A trained M&S workforce containing the cadre of professionals, ranging from specialists in M&S infrastructure to M&S researchers, needed to support the wide array of activities and programs that SEA entails; and · An information technology infrastructure that will drive the advance of M&S infrastructure at the same time that M&S technologies are being used to design and test the current and next-generation computing and networking technologies that promise exponential increases in power. s ~ Such an initiative is commonly known as a "multiuniversity research initiative" (MURI)
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... The following steps should be taken: · DOD should remain actively engaged in commercial standards efforts to ensure that DOD needs are considered in the standards development process. · DOD should take the lead in the development of standards that lack commercial interest.
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... A deliberate effort should be undertaken to define how M&S is to be integrated into the DOD systems acquisition process, including use of the maturity of the simulation support plan (SSP) as an element in milestone decision reviews and establishing specific evaluation criteria.
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... The following steps should be taken: · DOD's Senior Executive Council should set the direction by creating a vision of the desired acquisition culture and fonnulating and issuing policy consistent with that vision. DOD's Business Initiative Council should institute appropriate incentives for program managers, address issues of data and model ownership, proprietary information, arid intellectual property; identity and address policy, legal, and organizational barriers that inhibit SBA activities; identify and address policy issues associated with the potential international dimensions of SBA; provide needed resources to implement SBA programs; and ensure consistency among service implementations of SBA.
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... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In addition to promoting the necessary new culture for advancing SBA, it would also help the defense community to invite the academic community to integrate their knowledge and insights into the DOD acquisition world.


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