Army/Joint Experimentation
Abstract
Army Experimentation is the conduct of experiments involving Soldiers and Leaders within live, virtual, and constructive environments of exploring concepts, capability requirements and solutions across Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and Education, Personnel, and Facilities (DOTMLPF) domains in order to learn and mitigate risk for current and future forces. Experiments inform Army future concepts and assess high-risk conceptual assumptions in order to focus required capabilities and represent the user's requirements in the future Army. TRADOC's partnership with ASA(ALT) in connecting Soldiers to the ideas and capabilities earlier rather than later, provides essential user feedback and assists the acquisition community with informing the Army's investment portfolio and decreasing the number of engineering design changes. Army experiments use the combined resources of Army battle laboratories, operational units, research labs, materiel developers, industry and academia to collaborate in the development, refinements, and assessment of future force concepts - to inform capability developments and validate concepts for current and future force. Due to significant reduction in funding, beginning in FY15, Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) funding will focus on Simulated Experiments (SIMEX) to integrate and assess Army Concepts, Force Designs, and Capabilities. In the near-term, Army experimentation will focus on Prevent, Shape, and Win as foundational elements for this campaign, assessed across all joint campaign phases, with Army level issues across the breadth of a champaign that highlights integration of Army 2020 initiatives.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- 312_0605326A_6_2040_PB_2015
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