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Appendix E: Military Operations Research
Appendix E: Military Operations Research
Pages 43-50
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Today we are confronted with a comparable challenge to integrate emerging technologies into combat platforms, systems, and strategies: robotics and autonomous systems; artificial intelligence; micro-electro-mechanical systems and nanotechnology; hypersonics. The idea for implementing a system of teams with expertise across a wide range of scientific, engineering, and military disciplines, using empirical evidence from ongoing military operations in conjunction with creative mathematical models for rapid learning, defined and differentiated operations research (OR)
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Decker-Wagner Recommendation 39. "Direct TRADOC conduct an in-depth review of the required and authorized Capability Development personnel, including scientists and ORSAs and cost analysts at ARCIC, TRAC and Centers of Excellence with a recommended minimum team of 7 ORSA analysts available at each Center of Excellence's CDID; and a minimum of 5 cost analysts at the ARCIC." National Research Council: NASE BAST Special Logistics Study Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations (2014)
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Such an investment is a precondition for sustainment excellence. In addition to rebuilding analytical capacity within the materiel enterprise, the committee strongly suggests a more comprehensive assess ment of the state of operations research across the entire Army using an evaluation construct that includes analytical capacity, capability, utilization, organization, and contribution.
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The need for an introspective, forthright evaluation has become evident, especially given the paucity of existing analytical capacity allocated to various commands and organizations.5 An analytical renaissance is needed and overdue, and a precondition for restoring combat overmatch and significant improvement within all major Army enterprise systems. Education United States Military Academy offers an OR major but the focus of this undergraduate program has drifted and no longer consists of the unique curriculum that was once focused on weapon systems design and analysis, combat modeling, simulation, wargaming, and land warfare systems analysis.
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Strategic Analytics can provide a mechanism to challenge the underlying logic of current practices, and to also demonstrate better ways ahead that will accommodate graceful transitions rather than catastrophic or slow-motion failures. Strategic Analytics combines intellectual capacities, strategic planning acumen, diverse analytical capabilities, and brings them all to bear on formidable national and international security challenges.
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An EfI generates technological and managerial initiatives consistent with the organization's vision, "incubates" and rigorously analyzes them within a non-intrusive test bed, then rapidly transitions into actual practice those selected as most promising. The EfI functional design includes the three organizational components that comprise mission essential tasks: • An R&D model and supporting framework to function as a generator, magnet, conduit, clearinghouse, and database for good ideas • A modeling, simulation, and analysis component that contains a rigorous analytical capacity to evaluate and assess the improved performance, contributions, and associated costs that promising "good ideas" might have on large-scale logistics systems and global supply networks • An organizational implementation component that then enables the transition of promising concepts into existing organizations, agencies, and companies by providing training, education, technical support, and risk reduction and mitigation methods to reduce organizational risk during transformational phases Feedback loops accommodate better understanding as knowledge is generated, and for subsequent model refinement and calibration.
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OR can provide the glue to coordinate, orchestrate, and pull defense enterprise organizations together to keep them focused, continuously improving and learning while under increasingly greater pressure, precluding chaos and decline during a period of disruptive transformation. The Army must develop and integrate relevant analytical capacity as a core competency for military operations, defense strategy, and international security policy.
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