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2 The Changing Landscape
2 The Changing Landscape
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The environments in which these missions are performed routinely involve urban areas in · DoD needs MS&A appropriate to complex, dynamic, which large numbers of noncombatants are present. Clearly adaptive systems because such systems pervade mili- these missions cannot be successfully accomplished by DoD tary combat, other aspects of military operations, alone -- they must be performed using all the elements of and other political, military, economic, social, infra- national power, including diplomatic, economic, social, in structure, and information (PMESII)
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That is, capabilities definition must use the outputs of acqui · Concept development and capabilities definition. Cur- sition to incorporate the cost of developing a particular capa rently called the Joint Capability Integration and De- bility, which is then weighed against other costs in program velopment System (JCIDS)
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represents a powerful set MS&A. Such capability would allow players from the variof warfighting concepts and associated military capabilities ous agencies to interact with one another, and it would prothat allow warfighters to take full advantage of all available vide a means by which planning, training, and evaluation information and bring all available assets to bear in a rapid could be standardized across the services in an era of evolvand flexible manner.
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For instance, 1Other information in this section comes from Maj Gen Robert Elder, · There is no evidence that the PMESII factors com Air War College, and Maj Gen Bentley Rayburn, U.S. Air Force, Briefings pletely define what is meant by the sociocultural envi- to the Conference on Effects Based Operations on January 31 and February ronment.
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rent work. Other modeling tools will be needed to incorporate human gaming and man-machine interaction, since it is Large Integrated, Interdependent Systems commonly the case that expert human teams are better than models for suggesting innovative tactics and taking an inte- Historically, the services and, often, elements within them grative view.
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and modeling dynamical sysimplementation of a standard middleware layer, and the large tems. A further challenge is hybrid modeling, a combination community engaged in distributed simulation currently uses of modeling continuous physical devices and discrete coman assortment of protocols, including HLA.
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A simple answer is Mechanisms that there is often no real alternative, because all military activity short of actual battlefield operations is, by necessity, Organizational a simulation, whether on an instrumented training range or in the CPU of a computer. But there are other reasons to Behaviors invest in MS&A.
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Many aspects of military readiness problem caused by the loss of the Vieques operations -- for example, the implications of ubiquitous net training range in Puerto Rico, (2) it reduced by an es- working, the implications of different types and degrees of timated one order of magnitude the costs of naval sur- information, and the potential political, social, and economic face fire support qualification by substantially reduc- consequences of alternative courses of action -- are not yet ing the costs of steaming to achieve qualification, and well understood, so M&S does not yet represent them well.
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