Accelerated Acquisitions
Abstract
Accelerated Acquisition (AA) focuses on fostering M&S tools, data, and infrastructure to enable high confidence acquisition of capabilities to support the joint warfighter. This includes Live-Virtual-Constructive (LVC) infrastructure, tools and processes supporting LVC events, and models, tools, data, simulations/stimulation to support requirements definition, systems engineering and test activities. Activities also include M&S support for studies and analysis to support both current program planning and execution and future program planning. These efforts will enable more efficient delivery of effective capabilities to the warfighter while reducing the time and resources required for design, development, test and evaluation, maintainability and sustainment. A key objective is to improve interoperability of weapon systems and platforms through continuing, rigorous interoperability evaluation in a representative Joint Mission Environment. Additionally, AA activities seek to reduce risk associated with acquisition programs by influencing models, simulations, tools, data and infrastructure linking combat system engineering sites to facilitate concept exploration, development and assessment of systems in a net-centric mission context. This provides the capability to improve both Service and Joint system performance in a system-of-systems environment. Connectivity established by the infrastructure builds upon existing Service and Joint combat system engineering and test sites, such as C4I hardware in the loop and computer-program-in-the-loop engineering sites (including design activities, software support activities, test & evaluation facilities and training commands). Development includes concept of operations, business rules, and procedures to enable acquisition managers to effectively use LVC capabilities. These efforts enable accurately represented Command, Control, Communications, Computer, and Intelligence (C4I) networks for capability requirement definition, development, and testing activities to evaluate those systems for interoperability and integration into a joint environment. This will address interoperability issues by providing a means for discovering issues early on.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 674991_0207601F_7_3600_PB_2012
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