Rapid Prototyping Program

Abstract

The Joint Staff Rapid Defense Experiment Reserve (RDER) provides experimentation data management, data preservation and analysis. RDER efforts provides resources to document results and overall assessments of individual field experiments without which their potential warfighting impact will not be clear. The Department will be unable to assess progress towards implementation of the Joint Warfighting Concept capabilities from its investments. In FY 2023 RDER resources are focused on the following:(1) Conducting Analysis, planning and management of the integration of JExNet with those data sources, processes, architectures, and implementations needed to support the RDER effort. Active participation within RDER working groups, integrated teams, planning, and events. (2) Ensuring RDER results can be integrated with other DoD experimentation and that RDER results will be available for ongoing DoD-wide analysis. Develop a federated experimentation dataset architecture which allows combining access to a multitude of existing experimentation datasets by applying the DoD Data Advantage strategy and implementation policies and plans to ensure that RDER results are included. (3) Collecting RDER user requirements, data, and facilitate pipeline connection and interoperability for data sources (Field Experiments, Risk Mitigation events, Mission Engineering Studies, USD R&E's Strategic Intelligence and Analysis Cell (SIAC) Emerging Disruptive Technology (EDT) wargames) and user platforms across RDER working groups and support these in the Joint Experimentation Affiliate Network (JExNet). (4) Development of analytic approaches to assess RDER experimentation (Hypothesis, Discovery or Demonstration) results that determine if Concept Required Capabilities (CRCs) have been met and evaluate progress towards attainment. (5) Improved continuity and refined support to RDER for proposal alignment assessments to concepts, and ongoing engagement with proposals throughout experimentation process. (6) Analysis of diverse types of experimentation data to draw conclusions and develop recommendations. This includes development of confidence levels and heuristics to convey credibility of RDER experimentally derived knowledge. (7) Selective focused Modeling and Simulation and analysis to complement other RDER analysis and experimentation. Provide improved confidence in the overall body of analysis.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
• Source ID: 0604331J_4_0400_PB_2024
• Change Summary Explanation: Congressional reduction of 2.5M in FY 2023. As this funding was moved from BA 04 PE 0604826J / Joint C5 Capability Development, Integration, and Interoperability Assessments to BA 04 PE 0604331 / Joint Capability Experimentation, the total reduction of 5.0M was evenly split between these two program elements.
• Service Agency Name: The Joint Staff

Entities

Organizations

• Joint Chiefs of Staff

Tags

Communities of Interest

• C4I
• Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Addressing
• Command And Control
• Contracts
• Costs
• Data Management
• Defense Planning
• Disruptive Technology
• Engineering
• Guidance
• Interoperability
• Product Development
• Product Prototyping
• Prototypes
• Software Prototyping
• Strategic Intelligence
• Test And Evaluation

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Naval Engineering and Maritime Security
• Systems Analysis and Design