OSD Support for Programming Budget

Abstract

This program supports both the Office of the Director, Cost Assessement & Program Evaluation (CAPE), formerly known as Program, Analysis & Evaluation (PA&E). It funds assessments that help to resolve budget and programmatic issues across the full range of the Department’s activities. Projects that support this effort help to inform the leadership on program alternatives, capability concept development, design and cost, the appropriate balance of capabilities across the force, and also to identify how well the Department’s expenditures are meeting its goals, and how well the force can implement the defense strategy. 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 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 will provide 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 weapons systems and warfighting capabilities for warfighting environments and scenarios the Department is learning to analyze (irregular warfare, GWOT, and homeland defense). Deliverables from this program will include reports, briefings, and analyses designed to illuminate critical issues facing the Department. This will include recommendations for new modeling techniques, programmatic alternatives, and scenario development.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2011
Source ID
0606100D8Z_6_0400_PB_2011
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Office of Secretary Of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Air Power
  • Airborne
  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Combat Areas
  • Combat Operations
  • Force Structure
  • Homeland Defense
  • Military Acquisition
  • Military Organizations
  • Order Of Battle
  • Security
  • Signals Intelligence
  • Steady State
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Strategic Security Studies

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