Agile Assessment Techniques for Evaluating Mission Capability Portfolio Ensembles in Complex Adaptive Architectures

Abstract

Given the prototypical architectural template's demise, the purpose of this research is to begin a formulation of the Agile Assessment Methodology needed to evaluate the mission capability impact of using composeable web services in complex adaptive architectures. Network Centric Warfare (NCW) Assessment Processes must validate that a "rush towards a transformation" by date "X" does not sacrifice warfighter capability by introducing de-stabilizing architecture components. What assessment methodology and criteria will be used to evaluate or even define the NCW architectural boundaries for platform system reductions? What assessment methodology will be used to evaluate mission execution success probabilities given the migration away from traditional platform centric mission capabilities? The results of this research indicate that platforms should be wary of removing systems in favor of GIG services which may jeopardize crew or platform survivability; it also recommends that composeable assessment and simulation capabilities required to manage the assessment of mixed architecture capability ensembles be developed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA462320

Entities

People

  • Jack Lenahan

Organizations

  • Naval Information Warfare Systems Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Science
  • Electronic Mail
  • Force Protection
  • Infrastructure
  • Language
  • Law
  • Materials
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Reliability
  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • Simulations
  • Software Design
  • Standards
  • Warfare
  • Web Service

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Strategic Security Studies