Project

Capabilities-based planning attempts to break down traditional enterprise-level stovepipes during system development to stem the effects of a varied adversary. However, this approach tends to isolate the technical development community from strategic and tactical operational considerations. Injecting relevant threat-based intelligence and operational scenarios into the capability-based planning approach will better inform the technical communities charged with developing future weapons systems. This approach has been piloted in late 2016 at the U.S. Army Armaments Research and Development Engineering Center (ARDEC) in the armament-systems domain. The researchers shall focus on creating a computational framework that will:

1. Replicate the aforementioned process developed at ARDEC in 2016 to validate this notional computational architecture.
2. Enhance the visualization and analytic capability to allow rapid, high fidelity decision making.
3. Introduce additional parameters and variables to further refine the decision making framework. Real-world scenarios will be modeled to project evolving threats, doctrine, partner force interoperability, and other operational environmental conditions (political, military, socio-economic, information, infrastructure, physical environment).

When fully realized, this framework will contain a catalog of threats, operational scenarios, and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) to be used in future analysis. The framework shall be interactive, scalable, and accessible by a wide range of users. Further, the framework will be capable of performing trades at multiple levels of fidelity depending on needs (lower fidelity for initial rapid assessment of wide-search spaces and higher fidelity for more focused searches). The framework should be configured in such a way to allow real-time updates based on feedback from the field and/or other sources.

• Meshing Capability and Threat-based Science and Technology (S&T) Resource Allocation-