| Maritime Headquarters with Maritime Operations Center: A Research Agenda for Experimentation |
Jun-2009 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Shawn Weil; Karl Pfeiffer; Elliot Entin; Susan G Hutchins; David L Kleinman; William G Kemple; Scot Miller; Zachary Horn; Matthew Puglisi; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF OPERATIONAL AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
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 | Maritime Headquarters with Maritime Operations Centers, or more specifically the MOC, (MOC) represents the nexus of Joint and Navy transformation initiatives, lessons learned in the Global War on Terrorism, and progress toward the Sea Power 21 vision. Developing effective globally networked MOCs will require continued development, refinement and acquisition to deliver nearterm enhancement to Navy warfighting capabilities, while transforming the future maritime force to fulfill its role in The Cooperative ... |
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| Effect of Modularity on the Field Artillery Branch |
Mar-2009 |
40 pages |
| Authors:
Noel T Nicolle; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The United States Army's transition to a brigade-based, modular force created unintended consequences for the Field Artillery (FA) branch. A combination of decreased senior artillery oversight of division-level FA units, high operational tempo in support of counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and significant doctrinal changes is creating the perfect storm that seriously degrades the branches' ability to provide lethal and nonlethal fires in a major combat operation (MCO) scenario. ... |
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| The Increase in Training Requirements is Having an Adverse Impact on Technical MOS Proficiency |
20-Feb-2009 |
16 pages |
| Authors:
N B Cahoon; MARINE CORPS COMMAND AND STAFF COLL QUANTICO VA
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| What the Marine Corps is currently asking its Marines to accomplish is impossible. Every day, Marines throughout the Corps are asked to take on more training at the expense of maintaining proficiency in their own military occupational specialty (MOS). The Marine Corps must eliminate extraneous annual and pre-deployment training requirements to allow Marines to attain proficiency with new technologies and maintain enduring MOS proficiency. The Marine Corps has too many ... |
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| Spirituality in the Marine Corps |
20-Feb-2009 |
16 pages |
| Authors:
B Friedrick; MARINE CORPS COMMAND AND STAFF COLL QUANTICO VA
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| In his address at Trinity College in June of 1941, General George C. Marshall warned, The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul are everything. Unless the soldier's soul sustains him, he cannot be relied on and will fail himself and his command and his country in the end. The Marine Corps stresses the physical, mental, and spiritual development of Marines. Required training ensures that Marines are tested physically ... |
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| Marine Corps Martial Arts: One Mind, Any Weapon |
20-Feb-2009 |
11 pages |
| Authors:
Bryan Grayson; MARINE CORPS COMMAND AND STAFF COLL QUANTICO VA
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| What is the purpose of the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP)? What should its purpose be? Is this particular program usable in actual situations or is it fundamentally flawed? Despite years of implementation, the program still raises doubt regarding its necessity, usability, and validity. From Okinawa to Camp Lejeune, Marines practice MCMAP techniques on plots of grass -- steadily acquiring tan, gray, and green belts. Yet doubt still pervades ... |
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| Enhancing Combat Survivability of Existing Unmanned Aircraft Systems |
Dec-2008 |
149 pages |
| Authors:
Kine S Tham; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The importance of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to warfighters has been growing. Each loss (regardless of whether the entire UAS or parts of it) has become more expensive and unaffordable in both an operational and monetary sense. An unmanned aircraft (UA) loss may mean that critical missions cannot be performed and millions of dollars of investments on the UA lost. As most existing UAS were designed to be inexpensive and ... |
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| Strategy for the Long Haul CSBA: The US Marine Corps, Fleet Marine Forces for the 21st Century |
03-Nov-2008 |
109 pages |
| Authors:
Dakota L Wood; CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND BUDGETARY ASSESSMENTS WASHINGTON DC
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| During the 1920s and 1930s, even as it was engaged in a series of small wars, the Marine Corps dedicated itself to solving the Gallipoli problem: how to conduct amphibious assaults against a heavily defended shore. To do so, the Corps had to develop new concepts of operation, tactics and techniques, equipment, and organizations that enabled it to apply combat power against the enemy more effectively. The most daunting tactical ... |
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| Defense Acquisitions: DOD's Requirements Determination Process Has Not Been Effective in Prioritizing Joint Capabilities |
01-Sep-2008 |
40 pages |
| Authors:
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| The JCIDS process has not yet met its objective to identify and prioritize warfighting needs from a joint capabilities perspective. Instead, capabilities continue to be driven primarily by the individual services which sponsored 67 percent of initial capabilities proposals submitted since 2003 with little involvement from the COCOMs, which are largely responsible for planning and carrying out military operations. By continuing to rely on capability proposals that lack a joint ... |
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| PEO Soldier Simulation Road Map V - The MATREX Federation |
Apr-2008 |
45 pages |
| Authors:
Andreas Tolk; Robert H Jr; Kewley; Thomas Litwin; MILITARY ACADEMY WEST POINT NY OPERATIONS RESEARCH CENTER
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| The purpose of this study is to continue to build a capability for PEO Soldier to assess the platoon level effectiveness of different soldier equipment architectures using distributed simulation. Three combat models - IWARS, OneSAF, and COMBAT XXI. are integrated via the High-Level Architecture (HLA) in order to provide this capability. This year's effort focused on developing and demonstrating a runtime interaction between IWARS and OneSAF. In addition, a systems ... |
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| An Investigation of Communications Architecture Impact on Combat Effectiveness Using the Naval Simulation System |
MAR 2008 |
75 pages |
| Authors:
Peter C. Hakewessell; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This research study evaluates the ability of the Naval Simulation System (NSS) to model how changes in communication architecture for a given scenario contribute to combat effectiveness. The scenario used for this study models communication capability associated with the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab, Sea Viking 06 distributed operations scenario using the NSS. In addition, an evaluation of alternative system configurations in the communication structure is obtained in order to determine ... |
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| Communicating Optimized Decision Input from Stochastic Turbulence Forecasts |
MAR 2008 |
159 pages |
| Authors:
Jeanne R. Szczes; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The uncertainty of weather forecasts contributes to mission risk. Ensemble data can improve combat capability by incorporating forecast uncertainty into the warfighter decision process. The study transforms raw ensemble data into optimized decision inputs for upper level turbulence using ORM principles and decision science. It demonstrates the methodology and importance of incorporating ambiguity, the uncertainty in forecast uncertainty, into the decision making process using the Taijitu method to estimate ambiguity. ... |
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| Draft or Volunteer Army: Our Nation's Best Interest |
20-Feb-2008 |
48 pages |
| Authors:
Robbie Asher; TEXAS UNIV AT AUSTIN INST FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
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| Since the nation took its roots in 1776, the U.S. military forces have, at times, been an all-volunteer force and at other times a combination of a volunteer and a draft force. Many in today's military have reviewed writings concerning the Vietnam era draft years; however, they have only served as part of the all-volunteer force that was established in 1973. This research paper reviews the historical aspects of a ... |
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| The PFT: One Test, One Scale |
19-Feb-2008 |
15 pages |
| Authors:
E R Featherly; MARINE CORPS UNIV QUANTICO VA
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| According to the Guidebook for Marines, Physical fitness for a Marine means the maintenance of a healthy body, the endurance to withstand the stress of prolonged activity and adverse environment, the capacity to endure the discomforts that accompany fatigue and the maintenance of combat effectiveness. The book does not make a distinction between Marines, male versus female, or young versus old. Yet the test that Marines must endure twice a ... |
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| A View of the Combat CAS: Unifying Net-Enabled Teams |
Jan-2008 |
36 pages |
| Authors:
Paul F Hiniker; DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY ARLINGTON VA
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| This paper summarizes the results of a series of controlled Human-In-The-Loop experiments with teams of distributed warfighters engaged in combat scenarios enacted on wargame simulators. When viewed in the light of complexity theories, the significant results demonstrate some important empirical regularities. They show generally that increasing the self-similarity of a CAS (Complex Adaptive System), or warfighting team, composed of agents, or individual warfighters, with respect to their shared decision-making processes ... |
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| Stigma: "What Is It and Why Does the Operational Commander Need To Be Concerned?" |
06 NOV 2007 |
26 pages |
| Authors:
Lori A. Laraway; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| Mental health disorders are the most significant source of medical and occupational morbidity among active duty military members1 and multiple deployments increase the risk of developing a disorder. Stigma and fear of negative career impact are major reasons attributed to military members not seeking timely mental health services. To date, over one million Active and Reserve military troops have been deployed in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom ... |
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| Military Effectiveness: A Reappraisal |
JUL 2007 |
57 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey J. Bernasconi; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| Military effectiveness is a common goal among military forces, but it is an ill-defined concept. Two divergent theories cover the ground of military effectiveness. One looks at the interaction of social structures, whereas the other looks at the effect organization has on military effectiveness. Using the interwar German military as a case study, both concepts are reviewed and seams are found in both approaches. Even when evaluating with both criteria, ... |
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| Use of a Common Assessment Methodology in Support of Joint Training, Capability Development, and Experimentation |
01-Jun-2007 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Joel Parker; JOINT FIRES INTEGRATION AND INTEROPERABILITY TEAM EGLIN AFB FL
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| DOMAIN and MISSION. Joint Fires Definition: Fires produced during the employment of forces from two or more components in coordinated action toward a common objective (Joint Publication 3-0). Observation: This occurs down to the foxhole across the range of military operations. JFIIT MISSION: Improve the integration, interoperability, and effectiveness of Joint fires, focused at the tactical level. |
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| Concentrating on Dispersed Operations: Answering the Emerging Antiaccess Challenge in the Pacific Rim |
01-Apr-2007 |
90 pages |
| Authors:
William E Pinter; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIR AND SPACE STUDIES
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| Potential adversaries of the United States recognize that its ability to globally project combat power is essential to maintaining military dominance. Degrading US combat power projection requires a strategy of access denial which consists of geopolitical and military measures. In the Pacific Rim, the development of antiaccess capabilities is accelerating. Specifically, China has increased its procurement of ballistic, cruise, and anti-ship missiles, sea mines, and diesel submarines with a special ... |
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| Phase Four: Applying History's Successful Nation Building Lessons in Iraq |
30 MAR 2007 |
19 pages |
| Authors:
Darrell L. Jenkins; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Shock and Awe, the term used to describe our invasion of Iraq, was the most successful application of US combat power to date. While it was a great accomplishment it also presented U.S. leadership with a tremendous challenge in its preparations for and execution of a transition plan. The transition from what is typically described as phase three (combat) operations to phase four (post conflict) operations is always difficult. Recent ... |
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| Efficient or Effective? An Assessment of the Army Lessons Leaned Program |
26 MAR 2007 |
19 pages |
| Authors:
Anthony C. Funkhouser; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The Army recently revised the Army Lessons Learned regulation to centralize the collection, analysis and dissemination of lessons learned. Historically, the Army has not sustained an effective lessons learned process. TRADOC has the lead for the Army in managing this process. TRADOC has attempted to create a more efficient process that may reduce effectiveness during combat operations in OEF and OIF. Today, the Army is facing a significant challenge to ... |
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| The Requirements Process for the Army Multi-Mission Radar and the Marine Corps Multi-Role Radar System |
14 DEC 2006 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Richard B. Jolliffe; John E. Meling; Harold C. James; Andrew D. Greene; Nathan R. Witter; Breon E. Dehoux; Douglas W. Slaughter; Caryn M. Chambers; Jaime A. Bobbio; Wei K. Chang; Menh Q. Tran; Meredith H. Johnson; OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR AUDITING OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ARLINGTON VA
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| This report discusses the processes the Army and the Marine Corps used to generate requirements for the Multi-Mission Radar and the Multi-Role Radar System. We performed this audit in response to allegations made to the DoD Hotline. The allegations concerned the processes the Army and the Marine Corps used to generate requirements for the Multi-Mission Radar and the Multi-Role Radar System which are both multiple-mission radar systems. This report addresses ... |
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| Tactile Displays and Detectability of Vibrotactile Patterns as Combat Assault Maneuvers are Being Performed |
DEC 2006 |
23 pages |
| Authors:
Andrea S. Krausman; Timothy L. White; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD HUMAN RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING DIRECTORATE
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| This study examined the issues related to tactile displays and the detectability of vibrotactile patterns as combat assault maneuvers were being performed. Three obstacles were used in this study: tires, windows, and high crawl. A baseline condition, in which participants received tactile patterns while standing, was also included in the analysis. In the baseline condition, participants detected and identified 100% of the tactile patterns. Analysis of the obstacle data showed ... |
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| Training a Joint and Expeditionary Mindset |
DEC 2006 |
39 pages |
| Authors:
Ellen Menaker; Jo MacDonald; Arnold Hendrick; Debra O'Connor; INTELLIGENT DECISION SYSTEMS INC CENTREVILLE VA
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| The purpose of this research was to design a computer-mediated training environment to help ground-component forces develop the cognitive and affective skills needed to meet the challenges of engaging as a Joint and Expeditionary force. These skills are critical for effective performance of Combat Arms, Combat Support, Combat Service Support, and Reserve and National Guard components in the new operational environment. Qualitative analysis methods, including an extensive literature review, document ... |
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| Future Force Warrior (FFW) Small Combat Unit Modeling And Simulation |
NOV 2006 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
III Harris William F.; Robert S. Alexander; ARMY NATICK SOLDIER CENTER MA
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| The Future Force Warrior (FFW) is the US Army's system of systems concept and technology initiative for Soldiers in the Future Force. The primary objective of Future Force Warrior Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) is to integrate and demonstrate technologies, system of systems concepts, and development of warfighting concepts that provide a substantial increase in combat effectiveness for a Small Combat Unit (SCU) operating in the Future Force Brigade Combat Team. ... |
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| Analysis of Horizontal Integration within the Program Executive Office, Integrated Warfare Systems |
SEP 2006 |
67 pages |
| Authors:
Jesse M. Mink; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| PEO IWS was stood-up in October of 2002. Since then, the organization has had to change the way it delivered warfare systems to the Fleet. This re-organization could be compared to a merger or major transition in the private sector. The organization is still in a state of change. The purpose of this MBA project is to describe PEO IWS and analyze its implementation of organizational change. The issues that ... |
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| The Air Force Installation Operations Center: How Will the Installation Operations Center Assist the Deployed Commander to Integrate the Unit Level Mission into the Joint Fight? |
16 JUN 2006 |
87 pages |
| Authors:
Jason R. Combs; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| The United States (US) military is undergoing a tremendous transformation. Much of the change uses technology to improve command and control (C2) of military forces. The end state gives the commander the ability to command a more flexible and adaptive force. Since the early 1990s, the US Air Force has focused much of its effort on command and control networks to enable centralized control and decentralized execution. The Air Operations ... |
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| Asymmetric Campaigning as a Rational Choice: Planning Considerations |
JUN 2006 |
111 pages |
| Authors:
Erik A. Claessen; ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY BRUSSELS (BELGIUM)
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| There is no shortage of people who disagree with the current state of world affairs and who are prepared to use violence to change them. Are they mindless fanatics, doomed to fail? Or do they have a clever and covert plan with reasonable chance of success? One way to find out is to look at the problem of fighting an overwhelmingly stronger country from the perspective of someone whose aim ... |
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| Acquiring Combat Capability through Innovative Uses of Public-Private Partnerships |
JUN 2006 |
69 pages |
| Authors:
Steven M. Buchanan; Jayson W. Cabell; Daniel C. McCrary; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The purpose of this research is to study the federal government's historical use of public-private partnerships (PPPs) and their view on the issue. Then we study recent applications (case studies) of innovative financing arrangements by Hannon Armstrong, LLC, an Annapolis, Maryland based financial services firm. The intention is to build upon previous Naval Postgraduate School research efforts in this subject; specifically, expanding upon the efforts of Professor San Miguel, Shank ... |
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| Evaluating the Contributions of Virtual Simulations to Combat Effectiveness |
MAR 2006 |
94 pages |
| Authors:
Phillip N. Jones; Thomas Mastaglio; MYMIC LLC PORTSMOUTH VA
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| The problem under investigation was the evaluation of virtual simulations to combat effectiveness for two separate populations: US Army heavy combat units returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom and US Army National Guard heavy combat units. The research used opinion data collected via questionnaires delivered to battalion through platoon leadership. Questionnaires were delivered via physical interviews and written survey and also through web delivered surveys. Individual opinions were aggregated based upon ... |
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| Child Soldiers: Are U.S. Military Members Prepared to Deal with the Threat? |
15 FEB 2006 |
55 pages |
| Authors:
Judith Hughes; AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| Child soldiers are not a new phenomena for U.S. military forces, but they are an expanding problem that has implications for military training and the mental health of U.S. troops. This paper examines the problem of child soldiers throughout the world and assesses current U.S. military policies and practices regarding child soldiers. Specifically, the author describes the impact of child soldiers on the effectiveness of combat forces, the potential for ... |
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| Measuring the "Will to Fight" in Simulation |
30 NOV 2005 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
Paul J. Bross; LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP SUFFOLK VA
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| It is recognized by military historians and students of warfare that behavioral elements within each fighting force morale, leadership, etc. have a significant impact on battlefield outcomes. Such so-called "soft factors" can influence the battle towards victory or defeat. History is replete with examples of smaller, well-disciplined forces taking the fight to the enemy and being victorious. However, these elements of combat performance are seldom modeled explicitly in simulations at ... |
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| The "Softer Side" of Combat Operations Research |
30 SEP 2005 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Michael S. McGurk; ARMY ACCESSIONS COMMAND FORT KNOX KY
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| MULTI-NATIONAL, MULTI-NGO, MULTI-LANGUAGE COALITION COOPERATION: (1) Multi-National Forces in Iraq consists of ~25 national military contingents: US, UK, Poland, South Korea, Netherlands, Ukraine, Japan, Latvia, Albania, Moldavia, Mongolia, etc. But -- there is also the Department of State, US Agency for International Development, International Republican Institute, Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the INS, the BATF, the IRS, the FBI, United Nations, Red Cross, the Department of Justice, RAND, ... |
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| Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Survivability: The Impacts of Speed, Detectability, and Enemy Capabilities |
SEP 2005 |
175 pages |
| Authors:
Kevin L. McMindes; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
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| Warfighters are increasingly relying on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems at all levels of combat operations. As these systems weave further into the fabric of our tactics and doctrine, their loss will seriously diminish combat effectiveness. This makes the survivability of these systems of utmost importance. Using Agent-based modeling and a Nearly Orthogonal Latin Hypercube design of experiment, numerous factors and levels are explored to gain insight into their impact ... |
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| PEO Soldier Simulation Roadmap: Initial Steps in Implementation |
JUL 2005 |
66 pages |
| Authors:
Grant Martin; Jeffrey B. Schamburg; Michael J. Kwinn Jr.; Michael L. McGinnis; MILITARY ACADEMY WEST POINT NY OPERATIONS RESEARCH CENTER
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| The Army acquisition community requires high-resolution simulations that represent the dismounted infantry soldier in enough detail to conduct an analysis of alternatives (AOA) for individual weapons and equipment. These models must also be capable of assessing future, proposed capabilities and technologies. Previous work proposed coordination among three different models to achieve this capability. In this report, we discuss the implementation of that recommendation. We first will describe the process of ... |
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| Medical Materiel Readiness Metrics |
23 JUN 2005 |
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| Authors:
Richard Cocrane; LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT INST MCLEAN VA
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 | Meeting the Class VIII requirement: Addressing COCOM Surgeons' confidence: * 2000 - Joint Warfighting Capabilities Assessment - "Most items needed to support the Department of Defense's (DoD) wartime needs could be obtained in sufficient quantities from the department's established suppliers, or Prime Vendors (PV)." * 2002 - Combat Support Agency Review Team - "Exclusive reliance upon medical prime vendor suppliers increases the risks of not meeting surge requirements for a ... |
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| New Metrics and MOEs for Unmanned, Distributed Forces |
23 JUN 2005 |
28 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey R. Cares; ALIDADE INC NEWPORT RI
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| INTRODUCTION: (1) Existing models focus on attrition and can not adequately represent proposed Information Age combat processes. (2) Three views of a Distributed Networked System: * Structure -- What are the links, nodes, boundaries and rules for connection? * Dynamics -- Do actual or potential networked effects exist? * Evolution -- What trajectories do the descriptive characteristics take? Do they converge, diverge or cycle? (3) These three perspectives are used ... |
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| Combat Effectiveness of the Combined Arms Battalion Scout Platoon |
17 JUN 2005 |
96 pages |
| Authors:
Neal A. Corson; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| This study is designed to discover if the combined Arms battalion (CAB) scout platoon is capable of accomplishing its doctrinal mission on the battlefield. The research did in fact show that the CAB scout platoon is effective at accomplishing its doctrinal missions. The methodology used to conduct the analysis is based on the Army capabilities based requirements generation process. The organizational capabilities were analyzed against the critical tasks associated with ... |
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| Complexity, Networking, and Effects-Based Operations: Approaching the "how to" of EBO |
JUN 2005 |
44 pages |
| Authors:
Jr Smith Edward A.; BOEING CO ARLINGTON VA
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| The central tenet of effects-based operations is that we can somehow purposefully shape the interactions of players in our security environment so as to produce both individual and overall behavior that meets our needs. To do this, effects-based operations must be able to deal with complexity. The definition of effects-based operations as coordinated sets of actions directed at shaping the behavior of friend, foe and neutral in peace, crisis, and ... |
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| Expeditionary Strike Group: Command Structure Design Support |
JUN 2005 |
37 pages |
| Authors:
Susan G. Hutchins; William G. Kemple; David L. Kleinman; Susan P. Hocevar; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF INFORMATIONAL SCIENCES
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| An Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) is a new capability mix that combines the combat power of three surface combatants and one submarine with an Amphibious Readiness Group/ Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (ARG/MEU(SOC)). ESGs provide Combatant Commanders with more flexible, robust, and distributed offensive combat capability and enhance Naval expeditionary force survivability. Beginning in 2002, the Navy and Marine Corps began an experiment to explore the offensive and defensive ... |
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| Net-Centric Information Management |
JUN 2005 |
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| Authors:
Scott Renner; MITRE CORP BEDFORD MA
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| Information sharing is a key tenet of network-centric warfare (NCW). Information sharing succeeds when the right information is provided to the right people at the right time and place so that they can make the right decisions. This will not occur without an information management policy and process that is fitted to the needs of NCW -- one that is flexible, seamless, and complete. In this paper we describe the ... |
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| Command Post Anywhere Experiment - Exploiting the use of TeamSight for Ops Concepts |
JUN 2005 |
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| Authors:
Tom Ritchey; Carin Kaunitz; SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY STOCKHOLM
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| The concept of Command Post Anywhere is to be able to disperse the Brigade Command Post (CP) footprint to the forces so that command is everywhere and the Command Post is no longer a place for the enemy to detect and destroy. Every functional cell of the Brigade CP operates physically apart from each other over wide distances in an area of operation, but is still connected wirelessly with one ... |
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| Sea Basing: A Way to Project Land Combat Power |
26 MAY 2005 |
54 pages |
| Authors:
Stuart A. Hatfield; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| The US military projects land power through a combination of forward based forces, deployed forces from the continental United States (CONUS), and prepositioned equipment. Forward deployed and CONUS based forces require access to air and sea ports of debarkation to conduct reception, staging, onward movement, and integration (RSOI). Seabased prepositioned forces and equipment provide the joint commander flexibility to maintain a forward presence, to rapidly deploy forces, and to project ... |
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| Impact of Illness and Non-Combat Injury During Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) |
25 MAY 2005 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
John W. Sanders; Shannon D. Putnam; Carla Frankart; Robert W. Frenck; Marshall R. Monteville; Mark S. Riddle; David M. Rockabrand; Trueman W. Sharp; David R. Tribble; NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH UNIT NO 3 CAIRO (EGYPT) DEPT OF MEDICAL ZOOLOGY
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| Historically, non-combatant injuries and illnesses have had a significant impact on military missions. We conducted an anonymous cross-sectional survey to assess the prevalence and impact of common ailments among U.S. military personnel deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan during 2003-2004. Among 15,459 persons surveyed, diarrhea (76.8% in Iraq and 54.4% in Afghanistan), respiratory illness (69.1%), non-combat injuries (34.7%) and leishmaniasis (2.1%) were commonly reported. For all causes 25.2% reported that they ... |
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| The Limited Utility of Non-Lethal Weapons in Decisive Combat: War Still Means Fighting and Fighting Still Means Killing |
17 MAY 2005 |
24 pages |
| Authors:
Lee T. Pittman; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| As the technology associated with Non-Lethal Weapons (NLWs) continues to mature there will be growing pressure to use NLWs in future combat operations. However, the use of NLWs in decisive combat operations provides little operational benefit and would likely increase overall risk to mission accomplishment. While the use of NLWs is appropriate at the lower end of the conflict spectrum, the use of NLWs in decisive combat operations would produce ... |
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| Alternative Cartridge Case Material and Design |
MAY 2005 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Jerry S. Chung; Lucian M. Sadowski; FRONTIER PERFORMANCE POLYMERS CORP PARSIPANNY NJ
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| Today's soldiers carry 92 to 105 lbs. of mission essential equipment into combat. This overloads causes fatigue, heat stress, and injury. Every soldier has to carry ammunition. A lightweight cartridge case would reduce the burden of the soldier. Frontier Performance Polymers Corporation addressed novel ways of designing a lightweight polymer cartridge case. In this report, Frontier Performance Polymers designed several plastic cartridge cases, conducted finite element analysis, addressed the high ... |
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| Battle Command Metric Exploration in a Stimulated Combat Environment |
FEB 2005 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
Janet F. O'May; Eric G. Heilman; Barry A. Bodt; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD COMPUTATIONAL AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
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| Battle Command, or Command and Control, is a commander's guidance of his/her forces (command) to accomplish a goal or mission while monitoring the directed movements (control). The U.S. Army Research Laboratory's (ARL) battlespace Decision Support Team (BDST) is exploring methods of evaluating the effectiveness of a commander's course of action (COA) and resulting battle plan. Part of our research has involved the task of identifying metrics to rate a COA. ... |
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| Under New Management: Will America's Dedicated CSAR Forces Finally Thrive in AFSOC? |
DEC 2004 |
112 pages |
| Authors:
John D. Cline; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| On 1 October 2003 the USAF transferred control of its CONUS-based combat search and rescue (CSAR) assets from Air Combat Command to Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC). Transfer to AFSOC was CSAR's fourth major reorganization in twenty years, and was the latest in a turbulent procession of attempts to improve the combat effectiveness of CSAR forces. Despite possessing an abundance of brave, motivated, and extremely capable personnel yearning to ... |
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| Battlespace Terrain Ownership: A New Situation Awareness Tool |
DEC 2004 |
3 pages |
| Authors:
Janet F. O'May; Charles E. Hansen; Eric G. Heilman; Richard C. Kaste; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD
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| Information in the battlespace provides decisive power. It is imperative that critical information is brought to the immediate attention of commanders to enhance decision-making. One vital piece of information is terrain control. The Battlespace Terrain Ownership (BTO) system embodies an algorithm that computes expected terrain control over time and space, based on combat power projection as a function of position, influence exerted by asset distribution, weapon system effectiveness, probabilities of ... |
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| Utilizing Network-Enabled Command and Control Concepts to Enhance ASW Effectiveness |
SEP 2004 |
63 pages |
| Authors:
Ralph Klingbeil; John Shannon; George Galdorisi; NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER DIV NEWPORT RI
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| This report describes an analysis of two selected concepts for improving Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) performance and effectiveness by means of network-enabled sharing of information during ASW operations. These concepts are identified as Shared Situational Awareness (SSA) and Collaborative Information Environment (CIE). It is shown that the application of queueing theory models provide useful tools for quantitatively estimating the value-added of implementing these concepts. In addition, queueing theory can be used ... |
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| C3X: Correlation, Causation and Controlled Experimentation for C2 |
SEP 2004 |
26 pages |
| Authors:
Paul J. Hiniker; DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY FALLS CHURCH VA
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| This paper examines the key role of controlled experimentation in testing causal hypotheses on the warfighting effectiveness of C2 technologies and procedures. Through the years many hypotheses have been advanced regarding the factors making for effective warfighting. More troops, more firepower, higher speed of maneuver, superior doctrine, better training and superior C41 (Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence) are all factors hypothesized to make for more effective warfighting. Warfighting, itself is ... |
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