Human Social Culture Behavior (HSCB) Modeling Research and Engineering

Abstract

The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Human Social Culture Behavior (HSCB) Modeling Program is a vertically integrated effort to research, develop, and transition technologies, tools, and systems to programs of record and users in need. The Program exists to optimize U.S. forces’ ability to perform population-centric sensing, understand behaviors driven by social and cultural variables, and select effective courses of action in the full range of military operations. Program research will enhance population-centric intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities for understanding the increasingly complex global environment to address national strategic challenges such as instability, aggression, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and violent extremism. In three integrated program elements (PEs), the Program will conduct applied research, mature and demonstrate advanced technology, and develop transitionable methods, technology, tools, and prototypes. Work under PE 0604670D8Z will create transition ready software tools that will help intelligence analysts, operations analysts, operations planners, wargamers, and others represent, understand, and forecast sociocultural behavior at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels. This program focuses on maturing, hardening, and validating human, social, culture, and behavior modeling software for transition to meet the needs of the warfighter, integration into the architectures of existing programs of record, and/or maturing software via open architectures to allow broad systems integration. The Program provides a development to product transition pathway for sociocultural models, tools, and capabilities to rapidly meet immediate and emerging warfighter needs. The work supports the testing, validation, and transition of model-based technology into existing and developing systems in coordination with Program Executive Offices or Program Managers, Combatant Commanders, Joint and Service organizations, warfighters in need, and other transition customers. The Program will mature sociocultural relevant data and tools to provide essential sociocultural understanding and forecasting capabilities at the strategic, operational and tactical levels.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2016
• Source ID: 0604670D8Z_4_0400_PB_2016
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

• Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• C4I
• Counter WMD
• Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Analysts
• Combatant Commanders
• Cost Analysis
• Costs
• Early Warning Systems
• Engineering
• Intelligence Analysts
• Military Operations
• Models
• Prototypes
• Social Media
• Spanish Language
• Terrorism
• Test Methods
• Transitions
• Warning Systems
• Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

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