Opportunities for Improving Army Modeling and Simulation Development: Making Fundamental Adjustments and Borrowing Commercial Business Practices
Abstract
The U.S. National Security Strategy calls for using all elements of national power to continue U.S. engagement and leadership abroad. The Army must balance decreasing resources with uncertain requirements; requirements which span the conflict spectrum. The Army's current staff training simulation development process could better support all possible scenarios by making some fundamental adjustments and borrowing commercial business practices. This paper briefly explores project management principles, leadership theory, and commercial business practices, suggesting improvements to the Army's modeling and simulation development process. Finally, the paper suggests adjustments that might improve the process and identifies areas for further research. Suggested adjustments and practices are: 1) Encourage senior leaders to meet regularly with project teams and review as part of regular counseling. 2) Empower modeling and simulation domain managers to make resource decisions. 3) Organize modeling and simulation personnel, to include standards category representatives into and make assignments from functional pools. 4) Train senior leaders and project managers to understand and articulate projects' support to Army vision and goals. Emphasize providing high quality products as a top modeling and simulation priority.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA380192
Entities
People
- John R. Lee
Organizations
- United States Army War College