Air Mobility Plan, 2008 - The Black Vault

Modeling, Simulation, & Analysis
Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis Roadmap
OPR: AMC/A9
MAF Capability Statement
Provide capability for modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) support to analyze worldwide
mobility operations, moving through established or expeditionary en route airfields able to support
sustained mobility operations using in-place infrastructure or deployable assets and personnel.
Capability must provide MS&A support to decision makers and warfighters to predict and assess
effects-based operations across the full spectrum of mobility and in all operating and training
environments, to include those in a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) environment
(see C-CBRN Roadmap), through live, virtual, and constructive simulations. Capability must also
include modeling of concepts included beneath the Joint Deployment and Distribution Enterprise
(JDDE), such as end-to-end supply chain modeling. These concepts are growing in importance for both
AMC and the US Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) Joint Distribution Process Analysis
Center (JDPAC), of which AMC provides the air component, to include modeling and simulation
of end-to-end distribution using the air component. Capability must also provide MS&A support to
commanders at all levels, war games, exercises, planning, operations, distributed mission operations
(DMO), experimentation, and acquisitions. Capability must provide support to capabilities-based
planning (CBP) efforts by developing and maintaining an AMC/MAF value hierarchy using valuefocused
thinking (VFT) techniques through the four MAF functional capability teams (FCTs). In
conjunction with the value hierarchy, the capability must incorporate VFT results into an investment
program such as the Aerospace Integrated Investment Software (ASIIS) in order to support the CBP
and planning, programming, budgeting and execution (PPBE) processes. MS&A outputs must enable
robust and timely analyses to support decision makers and effects-based operations, and assure the
most effective decisions for utilization of the MAF. This MS&A capability should prepare, equip, and
transform the MAF through net-centric, on-demand components, and provide the world’s best air and
space capabilities to both the MAF and the Joint warfighter. MAF MS&A must align with AF MS&A
capabilities in supporting four principal communities of interest: Air Force operators; capabilitiesbased
planning and acquisition communities; Air Force leaders; and combatant commanders.
Roadmap Assessment
Current MS&A capability allows for answering senior leadership’s questions in exploring policy and
various decision options. With the advent of the JDPAC and a new emphasis on the JDDE, MS&A will
need an end-to-end supply chain management analysis capability coupled to current simulations. In
addition, MS&A is extensively used in exercises and war games for mobility and tanker simulations,
and visualizations for red, blue, and neutral players. The near-term vision for mobility MS&A is to
provide a more detailed and robust capability for process analysis of materiel and personnel movement,
force structure (i.e., number of airframes), fuel, crews, infrastructure support, command and control,
information flow, integration of airlift and tanker operations, etc. These additional details, then, on a
daily basis, support war games, exercises, planning and operations and should explore the possibility
of tight-coupling of their constructive information within Air Force DMO efforts.
Milestones
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