A Methodology for Doctrine in Modeling and Simulation: Battle Management Language (BML) and the Mission to Means Framework (MMF)
Abstract
In collaboration with the US Army and selected US Naval and US Air Force projects, the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office developed the Missions and Means Framework (MMF - a framework for explicitly specifying the military mission and quantitatively evaluating the mission utility of alternative warfighting Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership, Personnel, and Facilities (DOTMLPF) services and products.. The MMF provides a disciplined, repeatable procedure for explicitly specifying the mission and assessing mission accomplishment. Its "mission statement and assessment" procedure accounts for the tangible, physical objectively measurable factors (traditional Testing & Evaluation) as well as the intangible, cognitive ultimately subjective factors (traditional warfighter expertise) that constitute mission success. An essential part of the MMF is the ability to perform studies and analysis based on doctrinally correct missions. Battle Management Language (BML) provides an explicit task description of these missions, These missions can be derived from actual operational sources with BML and represented in a detailed format appropriate for simulating operations for the MMF. This paper describes both how BML can be used to enable the MMF, particularly in the area of simulating operations. The MMF provides a robust mission decomposition methodology, which conceptually can supply BML with a doctrinal foundation. In that BML has been developed to address Command and Control (C2) to Simulation interoperability problems, this paper gives a case study in how interoperability solutions can be used in various applications.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA433870
Entities
People
- John Kearley
- Michael Hieb
Organizations
- Alion Science and Technology