A Process to Score Futures Command R and D Efforts and Provide a Decision Support Tool to Select and Evaluate Those Efforts

Abstract

Army Futures Command (AFC) manages technology development projects in response to identified threats. These projects support future Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) capabilities, which are diverse in duration, cost, and technical requirements. The potential outcomes range from software upgrades to revolutionary concepts in vehicle or weapons technology. AFC must evaluate each program annually to determine priority and funding levels for recommendation in the Program Objective Memorandum (POM). AFC does not currently have a methodology in place that is capable of scoring projects based on their potential future impacts. This project develops a methodology and common metrics to score diverse technology development projects, and the methodology will provide a decision tool to support AFC POM submission. Due to the complexity of the decision-making model, as well as limits in time and available information, this project develops the methodology up to the point of demonstrating its function with simulated data. Taking these factors into consideration, this project does not perform validation and testing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1126363

Entities

People

  • Brad D. Cox
  • Brandon J. Firmature
  • Jennifer L. Gillum
  • John M. Holcomb
  • Kevin M. Horn
  • Paul A. Brooks
  • Steven H. O'brien

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Business Administration
  • California
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Governments
  • Guidance
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Literature Surveys
  • Maintenance
  • Management Personnel
  • Mathematical Models
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Multi-Domain Operations
  • National Security
  • Open System Architecture
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Organizational Structure
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Software Engineering.