USAFWC and 66th Weapon Squadron Joint Mobile All-Domain Operational Training and Test Infrastructure (JMADOTTI)
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Description
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) is having evolve to meet unprecedented political, economic, social, and technological changes to maintain power dominance over our primary near-peer competitors China and Russia. Battlefields are exponentially expanding across all domains and echelons, meanwhile decision cycles and reaction times continue to be compressed. The number of variables and amount of data available cannot be considered, calculated, and a course of action decided upon at the speed of war. In order for the United States to compete and overwhelmingly prevail in a near-peer competition, the Department of Defense (DoD) must transform the way it trains, plans, and executes to include human-machine collaboration through statistical analysis and AI-informed decision-making.
Overall Objective
LOE 1: Engineering & Integration Support - Objective 1: Provide direct technical support, operational planning, advanced integration, and concept and capability development expertise in order to establish holistic, cross-functional task-organized structures that advance and enhance conceptual and capability development through the synthetization of existing capabilities with emerging operational concepts and technologies. - Objective 2: Facilitate cross-collaboration across stakeholders and equities to ensure collaboration and coordination across the program office, component commands, OUSD I&S, and warfighter. - Objective 3: Resolve critical issues regarding operations, equipment installation, experimentation, and concept integration to include explicit requirements to conduct operational training. LOE 2: Modeling & Simulation - Objective 1: Perform rigorous wargaming and AI/ML algorithm refinement of various operational scenarios in the European Command (EUCOM) and Indo-Pacific Command (INDO-PACOM) Areas of Operation (AORs) for both current and future requirements leveraging M&S. - Objective 2: Train warfighters and refine TTPs through enabling realistic and immersive experiences via M&S that enhance the skill sets of warfighters and commanders. - Objective 3: Evaluate the performance of systems and associated ancillary systems, identify potential risks to operational use, and refine designs before operational fielding, training, and employment. LOE 3: Data Capture & Analysis - Objective 1: Develop and deliver engineering prototypes that will be leveraged for wargaming activities, AI/ML algorithm refinement, and joint operational experimentation/exercises in Continental United States (CONUS) and Outside Continental United States (OCONUS) locations. - Objective 2: Perform data captures of the engineering prototypes in various environmental habitats/biomes and under an array of atmospheric conditions to mimic operationally relevant environments. - Objective 3: Conduct data analysis, refinement, and evaluation in order to optimize advanced software frameworks and platform solutions capabilities as well as drive disruptive approaches to warfighting that will give the US the advantage over its adversaries. LOE 4: Experimentation & Exercises - Objective 1: Provide seamless planning and integration of systems and technologies to meet warfighter objectives during identified experimentation events and exercises. - Objective 2: Train and test tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) in order to refine, evaluate, and test advanced software frameworks and platform solutions at identified experimentation events and exercises. - Objective 3: Perform data capture and analysis during identified experimentation events and exercises for the purposes of refining TTPs, logistic processes, and operational deployment plans. LOE 6: Joint Interoperability - Objective 1: Leverage data and network architecture expertise to enable bi-directional communications between identified networks, sensors, radars, and weapons across joint and mission partner networks. - Objective 2: Create and maintain data architecture documents and network diagrams to support operational Courses of Action (COAs) and Concepts of Operation (CONOPS). The documents and diagrams shall provide the baseline information needed for stakeholders to understand the systems, networks, and interconnections utilized by the systems. - Objective 3: Provide software and integration engineering support to the warfighter during prototyping efforts, events, and exercises to ensure interoperability of fielded and emerging technologies.
Problem Statement
The United States Air Force Warfare Center and 66th Weapon Squadron are collaborating on Joint Mobile All-Domain Operational Training and Test Infrastructure (JMADOTTI) to leverage modeling and simulation (M&S) combined with advanced prototyping to enhance capabilities that support operational effectiveness, resilience, and interoperability in both experimental and real-world settings. Leveraging training and test infrastructure with advanced prototyping of various prototype systems, JMADOTTI has the potential to provide warfighters alternative options not previously considered in conventional thought processes. Over time, a properly architected simulation capability could drive disruptive approaches to and platforms for warfighting that will give the US the advantage over its adversaries.