Executive Summary: The Acquisition Innovation Research Center: Innovation for Digital Transformation and Policy Analytics

This report presents the initial results of an AIRC Policy Test Laboratory (PTL) study and was performed by the research team over a period of two months. The goal of this project was to establish an initial reference architecture to support the development of the PTL.

The government has identified several obstacles to inform effective and efficient acquisition policies. Effective modeling, simulation, and analysis of acquisition policies require a multi-domain, multi-scale approach. However, existing research in acquisition policy analysis has primarily remained siloed. Policy researchers lack a platform that enables sharing, reusing, or integrating the methods, models, and data developed and/or generated by different research teams in different projects. Government envisions a PTL as a potential solution to this need. The PTL is conceived as a service where a domain model developed in a project can be used and/or integrated with another model of a different domain developed in a different project.