Modeling Impacts of Operational Changes on Joint Campaign Effects
Abstract
Analyses of air mobility capabilities traditionally assess performance across air refueling and airlift capacity over time. Consequently, efforts to improve timeliness and capacity gravitate towards increasing key enablers, (aircraft, C2, etc.). Analytical methods, though, have not adequately applied effects-based protocols to link air mobility execution to impacts on Joint Warfighting. This paper describes an integrating approach to applying an effects-based protocol to assess value of air mobility performance (also applicable to other capabilities) to campaign execution. Programmatic support for capabilities gains momentum when results demonstrate direct benefits to joint warfighting effects. This study uses existing air mobility models with US Joint Forces Command's (USJFCOM) campaign model, Joint Analysis System (JAS), to explore and trace how operational actions improve effects-based operations. The paper expands work from the 12th ICCRTS (Adapting C2 to the 21st Century), paper 184, to get to the "so what" concerns and focus of the Joint Force Commander (JFC), i.e., how air mobility capability changes can improve the JFC's achievement of campaign objectives. JAS variables provide mechanisms to portray changes in air mobility precision and velocity as more than just improvements in delivery times. This paper examines how different operational and campaign models can be used together to correlate operational changes to campaign effects.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2008
- Accession Number
- ADA486736
Entities
People
- John Arsenault
- Larry Stephens
Organizations
- Air Mobility Command