The Use of a Conceptual Battlespace Architecture to Manage and Exploit Concepts and Doctrine Experimentation
Abstract
Advanced simulation and modelling technology has provided the military establishment with a new and unprecedented opportunity to experiment with concepts and doctrine in a way that today's constraints on cost and resources have made extremely difficult to realize by any other methods. Simulation and modelling technology enables a greater range of options to be explored, the flexible arrangement of real and the simulated participants and the rapid development and demonstration of new concepts, all leading to a powerful capability for shaping the future of military operations. This technology can be used to underpin experimentation which explores and defines concepts and processes for future doctrine such as the United Kingdom (UK)'s Network Enabled Capability (NEC) and Effects Based Operations (EBO). Without some framework for managing the resulting information and to provide a wider scope for interpretation of results, the full benefit of this type of experimentation can remain unfulfilled. Based on work conducted on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) and the UK NITEworks programme, this paper shows the benefits which have been gained from an architecture framework based model repository to provide a conceptual architecture for managing and exploiting experimental architectures and observations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA476644
Entities
People
- David Evans
- Paul King