Wargaming & Support for Strategic Analysis (SSA)

Abstract

A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification This was a new start program in FY 2017. This program supports the Office of the Director, Cost Assessment & Program Evaluation (CAPE). It funds activities that help CAPE to implement the Department's intent to reinvigorate wargaming. CAPE accomplishes this by leading wargaming activities, developing and managing the Wargaming Portal, and supporting the design, execution, and analysis of wargames. This program provides for analytical research across a spectrum of issues and concerns. The research agenda is focused on near- to long-term problems identified by the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and addresses difficult and complex questions linked to program alternatives for current and future capabilities and forces in order to enhance the senior leadership's deliberations and decision-making. This program provides the scientific and technical engineering services needed for research studies in the development of models and simulations and the evaluation of current analytical tools and scientific methods used to evaluate and assess scenarios and concepts of operations (CONOPS) for a wide range of warfighting environments and scenarios. Deliverables from this program will include reports, briefings, and analyses designed to illuminate findings and assessments from wargaming excursions. Outcomes include the compilation and analysis of wargaming data in the Wargaming Portal and support for data use by wargaming participants.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2019
Source ID
0604682D8Z_4_0400_PB_2019
Change Summary Explanation
In FY 2017 this program was added to reinvigorate Wargaming and Support for Strategic Analysis to implement an important Deputy Secretary of Defense priority. The FY 2017 adjustment reflects the final congressional enactment amount. The FY 2019 reduction reflects the Fiscal Guidance that CAPE was required to meet.
Service Agency Name
Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Best Practices
  • Contracts
  • Cost Analysis
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Guidance
  • Models
  • Product Development
  • Prototypes
  • Simulations
  • Spectra
  • Steady State
  • Strategic Analysis
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Game Theory.

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