Wargaming & Support for Strategic Analysis (SSA)

Abstract

This program supports the Department's initiatives to Deter Aggression, Defend the Homeland, and Build Sustainable and Long-Term Advantage. This program supports the Office of the Director, Cost Assessment & Program Evaluation (CAPE) by funding activities that help CAPE to implement warfighting analysis in support of the National Defense Strategy. The CAPE accomplishes this by leading studies to support campaign analysis and analytical research across a spectrum of national security issues and concerns. These RDT&E resources support critical studies and analyses to assist senior DoD leaders in optimally balancing the lethality, partnership, and reform levels of effort to carry out the National Defense Strategy. The research agenda focuses 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 to inform Operation Plan development and DoD's approach to concept development, joint campaign analysis, evaluation, and force development.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2023
Source ID
0604682D8Z_4_0400_PB_2023
Change Summary Explanation
FY 2023 funding increase reflects the fact that the FY 2022 President’s Budget request did not include out-year funding
Service Agency Name
Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Best Practices
  • Budgets
  • Contracts
  • Cost Analysis
  • Costs
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Force Structure
  • Guidance
  • Military Budgets
  • Models
  • National Security
  • Product Development
  • Refining
  • Security
  • Simulations
  • Strategic Analysis

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Strategic Security Studies

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