Mapping Experiment Results to Operational Capabilities
Abstract
This work addresses the reporting of results from military operational experiments. These experiments are designed to examine a defined set of specific objectives, goals, and metrics, and results are developed for those objectives and goals. The results often apply to a fairly broad range of interests in addition to the experiment and its direct objectives. The authors refer to these as "Areas of Interest" (AoI). The purpose of the work is to develop a structure and methodology, a schema, for mapping experiment results to these AoI. Figure 1 illustrates the basic mapping structure, which shows that results mapping is done at the objective level. The structure developed can be used for mapping experiment results to any military AoI. Initial work in this project has been mapped from Trident Warrior experiments to the following: Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) Joint Capability Areas (JCAs), FORCEnet Capabilities, Naval Netwar FORCEnet Enterprise (NNFE) Capabilities List (NCL), and Operational Capability Gaps. The mapping described here focuses mainly on net-centric warfare: on information development, information flow, and decision-making. Force application activities are included, but less extensively. The structure does accommodate supported JCAs, but using it to do a good mapping of operational effectiveness results to them would require some expansion of the structure.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 2007
- Accession Number
- ADA475185
Entities
People
- Gordon E. Schacher
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School