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9780833045898
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This monograph presents and illustrates in some detail an analytical framework and methodology for defensewide capability-area reviews and describes new enabling tools to support capabilities analysis and related tradeoff work within the Department of Defense and the military Services. The Building Blocks to Composite Options Tool (BCOT) is used to generate and screen preliminary options, and the Portfolio-Analysis Tool (PAT) enables users to evaluate in a portfolio-analysis structure those options that pass screening. Variants of the methods can be applied for analysis across capability areas or for strategic-level defense planning, i.e., force planning to establish the overall mix and balance of capabilities. The concepts are illustrated with applications to the capability areas of Global Strike and Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD). Further research is recommended in four areas that promise to have a high payoff for defense planning: analysis cutting across capability areas; strategic-level portfolio analysis; advancing the science of exploratory analysis; and refinement of BCOT and PAT to make them easier to use, understand, modify, and maintain and also to enrich their utility for exploratory analysis and to incorporate new techniques for portfolio analysis developed in the fields of economics and business planning.
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Cover -- Preface -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Glossary of Terminology -- Chapter One - Introduction -- Objectives -- Structure of This Monograph -- Chapter Two - Background: The Capabilities-Development Process -- Context: DoD's Capabilities-Development Process -- Problems with the Current Process -- Historical Successes in Capability Development -- Past Recommendations and Recent Changes -- Past Recommendations for Change -- A Recent Change: Concept Decision Reviews -- Chapter Three - A Framework and a Generic Terms of Reference -- What Should a Capability-Area Review Accomplish? -- Elements of the Generic Analytic Process -- Define the Capability Area and Related Missions -- Characterize Operational Needs in a Scenario Space -- Define CONOPS and Critical Components for Options -- Generate and Screen Candidate Options -- Evaluate the Options in DIME-Sensitive Portfolio Analysis -- Characterize Shortfalls, Opportunities, and Surpluses -- Add Options: Remedies and Possible Reductions -- Iterate -- Chapter Four - Tools to Enable the Framework -- Systems Engineering, Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis, and Experiments -- Capability Models -- Generating and Screening Candidate Options -- Portfolio-Analysis Tools -- Tailoring Analysis for Different Contexts -- Chapter Five - A Notional Example: Global Strike -- Defining Global Strike -- Key Attributes -- Historical Examples -- Timeliness Requirements -- Defining a Parameterized Scenario Space for Global Strike -- Timeliness, Target Character, and Number of Weapons -- A Scenario Set That Stresses All Key Factors -- Defining CONOPS and Critical Components for Global Strike -- Critical Components of Capability -- Concepts of Operations -- Identifying, Evaluating, and Comparing Global Strike Options -- The Options Themselves.
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ISBN 9780833042149
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Print version Portfolio-Analysis Methods for Assessing Capability Options
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