Working Group III MultiNational Experimentation

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Working Group IIIMulti-National Experimentation

• 19 Dec 2002

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Task 1 How to Apply NCW/NEC Conceptual Framework
to Experimentation

• IF Group 1/2 agree that the Framework is
  acceptable
• AND it survives detailed scrutiny once the
  Nations get it home
• AND we can identify areas of common agreement
• AND we can agree how we will manage and develop
  it
• THEN The Framework should be used as a basis for
  developing multinational experiments and sharing
  information on national experiments

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Experimental Cooperation
UK
Capability
Experimentation
National imperatives will differ
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Framework Use

• Basis for
• Sharing information on national experiments
• Developing multinational experiments
• Recording the scope, design, limitations etc of
  experiments (eg associated metrics)
• Instrumenting reality
• Developing a common ontology

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Task 2

• What benefits are derived from a Multinational
  Experimentation Campaign?
• What downsides and challenges exist in conducting
  multinational experiments?
• How can we implement metrics into these
  campaigns?

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Task 2 Benefits
Multinational Experiments
Shared Information on National Experiments

• Risk reduction for Multinational Operations
• Identifies solution sets to interoperability
  issues
• Increases understanding of other nations culture
  and DOTMLPF issues
• Increases the probability of execution when
  multiple nations have bought in
• Furthers shared understanding of NCW/NEC/etc.
  operations
• Promotes a shared understanding of Experimental
  Techniques
• Metrics
• Experimental Design
• Analytical techniques
• Data treatment

• Reduce the individual countries costs and
  increase the efficiency
• Furthers shared understanding of NCW/NEC/etc.
  operations
• Promotes a common knowledge base of Experimental
  Techniques
• Metrics
• Experimental Design
• Analytical techniques
• Data treatment
• Allows for leveraging of national efforts
• Broadens the base for peer review of results
• May result in faster requirements to solutions
  cycle
• Allows for early identification of like efforts
  and facilitates collaboration

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Task 2 Downsides/Challenges
Multinational Experiments
Shared Information on National Experiments

• National imperatives will differ
• It is Expensive
• IT is PAINFUL
• Politically VERY Difficult
• Compromise on objectives
• System Engineering efforts are more difficult
• Security Issues
• Level of military effort necessary to do
  scenario, etc.
• Single scientific lead is necessary
• No persistent environment
• Decreases flexibility to respond to emergent
  events

• Determining what to share increases the work for
  experimentation
• May result in a competitive advantage to others
• Increase the costs of meta-data organization w/o
  direct benefit to individual projects
• Increased opportunity for security leaks

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Task 3 Implementation Recommendations

• For the Conceptual Framework
• Continue to develop the framework and coordinate
  it among the experimentation communities of the
  various nations
• Add narrative to support the framework
• Continue to develop scenarios
• Recommend that the BOD include appropriate
  multinational participation
• Make the framework openly available to those who
  want to participate in multinational
  experimentation activity
• For Application to National and Multinational
  Experimentation
• Use the framework to provide a basis for the
  conduct of national experimentation campaigns.
• Use of the framework will facilitate synergism
  among national campaigns.
• Some means of multinational configuration
  management of the framework will be necessary to
  accomplish this
• Consistently use the ontology/relationships in
  the Framework to facilitate knowledge sharing
  among participating nations
• that is reusable.
• Use the terms, measures, influences, metrics, and
  interrelationships, (and other stuff) described
  in the framework to document experiments, in
  order to allow them to be compared and combined.

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Task 3 Implementation Recommendations (cont)

• For LOE-2
• Encourage participation of Framework team in
  LOE-2
• Map LOE metrics to the framework as possible
• Consider using LOE-2 data (post experiment) to
  populate a case study
• Engage early in LOE-3 planning for more
  substantive use of the framework in the
  analytical effort
• Expand existing opportunities for multinational
  cooperation in exercises, demonstrations,
  experiments.
• Investigate and document technical and functional
  interoperability solutions as part of the output
  of these efforts.
• Investigate and document co-operability solutions
  as part of the output of these efforts.

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Questions
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Backups
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National Imperatives for Experimentation will
Differ

• UK (Benefits of NEC are a given)
• NEC is an enabler not a concept
• Develop requirements for systems
• Co-evolve all lines of development (DOTMLPF)
• US
• Assess benefits of NCW
• Refine Concepts of Operations
• Help Guide Investment
• SW
• Size of Defense Budgets

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Products

• Recommended adds to LOE-2?
• What is the realistic scope of a cooperation in a
  MN experimentation campaign? And how should we
  cooperate?
• Identify the different campaigns that are
  underway or envisioned and their overlaps.
• What are the major components of a NCW
  Experimentation Campaign?
• National Perspectives on Big Picture Perspective
  of NCW Experiments
• Shared Results/Data Opportunities

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Multinational Experimentation Campaign Objective

• To conduct a series of experiments
• Develop shared understanding of each others
  military modus operandi
• Resolve key issues that achieve
  interoperability/co-operability
• Experiment and resolve those issues
  incrementally culminating in a combined joint
  experiment which will demonstrate our ability to
  conduct both national and multinational
  operations. (Experiments must look at all lines
  of development (DOTMLPF))