Joint Capability Experimentation

Abstract

NDAA 19 amends the Chairman’s responsibilities to address experimentation on future concepts and the 2018 National Defense Strategy Implementation Guidance directs that rigorous experimentation take place on concepts to ensure Department investments adequately address future requirements as well as those of today. As such, the Joint Staff will establish an experimentation capability to analyze and validate priority joint concept required capabilities. Concept analysis and validation will have a multi-faceted nature to meet the Chairmen’s Title 10 responsibility of, “identifying new joint military capabilities based on advances in technology and concepts of operation, and recommending investments and experiments in such capabilities.” Wargames will assess baseline mission and campaign level outcomes of the concepts as well as identify a tradespace of potential new capabilities. This tradespace of capabilities is further explored with quantitative models and software that identify the most efficient cost and capability tradeoffs to help meet the Title 10 responsibility of “advising the Secretary on new and alternative joint military capabilities, and alternative program recommendations and budget proposals, within projected resource levels.” The National Defense Strategy directs “early design tradeoffs in the requirements process to increase the speed of delivery.” The Joint Staff approach to tradespace exploration follows that guidance by providing a cost conscious and operationally relevant prioritization tradeoff technique early in the portfolio design process. Using this rigorous prioritization approach, the capability development cycle can efficiently focus resources on more detailed experimentation of specific capabilities to inform the requirements process. The analysis from the experimentation program will be used to provide foundational evidence to directly inform the Joint Military Net Assessment (JMNA), the Chairman’s Program Recommendation (CPR), and ultimately the Defense Planning Guidance for Joint Force development and design.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2020
Source ID
0603829J_6_0400_PB_2020
Change Summary Explanation
FY 2020 increase is due to a new program element start in FY 2020 to expand joint experimentation activities.
Service Agency Name
The Joint Staff

Entities

Organizations

  • Joint Chiefs of Staff

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Addressing
  • Defense Planning
  • Guidance
  • Investments
  • Military Capabilities
  • Money
  • National Security
  • North Korea
  • Reliability
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • Urban Areas
  • Validation

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

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