The objective of this research area is to develop innovative approaches and products to determine military worth and quantify value propositions for weapon concepts as part of the Munitions Directorate’s strategic planning process. Specific mission areas of interest include Air, Space, Cyber, Maritime, Nuclear Deterrence, Special Operations. Techniques for objective quantification of future weapon technologies, attributes, and their tradespaces critical to achieving operational objectives are sought. There is also interest in fast-running informative tools for analysis, study, optimization, and revelation of opportunities to address operational gaps and shortfalls. Inclusion of should-cost estimates for technologies and cost exchange ratios for blue-red forces is an important factor to senior leader decision making processes. Techniques to efficiently develop strategic planning roadmapping tools which quantify timephased performance advancements over baseline technologies and weapon systems are highly desired. In addition, approaches to aggregate technologies into notional weapon constructs is of interest as well as novel approaches to evaluate their performance attributes and capability contributions.
