Mission Engineering & Integration (ME&I)

A hardware, software, and TS/SCI/SAP network architecture designed to accelerate the Department’s ability to conduct rapid capability development and fielding. The JCDE provides industry, the DoD, FFRDC/UARCs, and international partners access to advanced modeling and simulation (M&S) tools and a multi-level security (MLS) enabled data/knowledge repository to enable rigorous, rapid analysis and experimentation in support of capability development and military utility analysis and experimentation. The JCDE also includes a development environment that enables the continuous creation and improvement of advanced M&S tools and analysis / experimentation processes. The JCDE provides the following benefits: • Enables advancements in analytic processing, capability development, and experimentation, accelerating incubation, development, and evaluation processes that transition joint capabilities. • Enhances industry, UARC, and FFRDC ability to partner with the DoD to ensure that the US military retains its technological advantage. • Enhances and expands upon the Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information, Special Access Program (TS/SCI/ SAP) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) software and hardware development environment established by the Secure Advanced Framework for Simulation and Modeling (SAFE-SiM) program. Matures the SAFE-SiM modeling and simulation (M&S) program and suite of analytic tools to continually deliver new capabilities, based on user feedback, and transition new modeling and simulation (M&S) tools for defense analysis. • Delivers and sustains a Multi-Level Security (MLS) enabled, modeling and simulation (M&S) ecosystem to support both local and distributed collaborative analysis via networks that can be accessed by U.S. government, Department of Defense, Academic, and Industry stakeholders. Enables establishment of a Multi-Level Security (MLS), Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information, Special Access Program (TS/SCI/SAP) network for government, industry, academia, and multinational partners. Results of this work include: • Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information, Special Access Program (TS/SCI/SAP), MLS-enabled compute infrastructure that can run multiple M&S tools. • Model repository/knowledge management capability that realizes the USD (R&E) vision to enable the sharing of models with Industry and allies/partner nations and support analysis across the defense enterprise as well as provide secure, curated access to completed analysis. • Integrated model development environment that enables the creation of models at all levels of classification from UNCLASSIFIED to Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information, Special Access Program (TS/SCI/SAP) levels to support the mission engineering analytic efforts as well as industry, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), University- Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs), and partner nations and allies. • Team dedicated to identifying and developing new analytic processes and methods that are the result of the creation of new analytical tools, and responsible for transitioning those processes to users across the defense analytic enterprise.

Conduct Mission Engineering studies to analyze recommended technologies that eliminate or disrupt adversary kill chains, or deliver superior Blue Force kill chains. Leverage modeling and simulation to identify and evaluate current and emerging systems, systems of systems, technologies, capabilities, and warfighting concepts. Prior Accomplishments: • Decomposed missions to develop digital representations of Mission Engineering Threads (Critical Kill Webs), focused on missions within the USINDOPACOM Area of Responsibility to inform data collection, promote cross-service interoperability, joint warfighting concept design, and inform enterprise-level joint experimentation. • Completed a variety of Mission Engineering studies focused on Joint Force Integration and assessment of allied/partner capabilities; this includes mission areas such as Maritime Strike, Air Superiority, and Space Control, and technology areas such as autonomy, assured positioning, navigation and timing (APNT), hypersonic, and directed energy. • These studies have been used to inform Joint prototyping/experimentation, investment decisions throughout capability portfolio management, program budget reviews, and joint concept development (e.g. Joint Warfighting Concept). • Executed complex and robust Mission Engineering analyses that identified warfighter capability gaps and assessed mission impacts of innovative technology and capabilities in countering our adversarial threats. Delivered results that supported DoD leadership funding and transition decisions. • Established Information Exchange Agreements, through a Broad Other Transaction Announcement (BOTA), and hosted classified Mission Engineering Forums with industry partners that promoted and enabled sharing of information to address warfighter “mission” hard problems and inform R&D decisions. • Advanced the state of practice of Mission Engineering through the Mission Engineering Practitioners Forum comprised of key DoD organizations by promoting awareness and sharing best practices for implementation of the ME methodology, development of mission architectures, training and competency, and executing of ME analytics. Continue to mature and release updated version of the Mission Engineering Guide which serves a vital document for practitioners across the DoD.

Realigns key elements of the Joint Lethality Engineering program to enable the continued all security level, all domain advanced Joint concept development effort centered on new warfighting concepts: • Produce strategically informed technical analysis that supports the development of future warfighting concepts and identify opportunities for investment in key enabling technologies that enhance the lethality of systems against adversarial threats. • Produce investment recommendations in capabilities oriented toward increasing warfighter effectiveness.

Enhances the Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information, Special Access Program (TS/SCI/SAP) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) software and hardware development environment established by the Secure Advanced Framework for Simulation and Modeling (SAFE-SiM) program. Focus areas includes the Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) software pipeline infrastructure and Multi-Level Security (MLS). This work matures the Secure Advanced Framework for Simulation and Modeling (SAFE-SiM) modeling and simulation (M&S) program and suite of analytic tools to continually deliver new capabilities, based on user feedback, and transition new modeling and simulation (M&S) tools for defense analysis.

Delivers and sustains a Multi-Level Security (MLS) enabled, modeling and simulation (M&S) ecosystem to support both local and distributed collaborative analysis via networks that can be accessed by U.S. government, Department of Defense, Academic, and Industry stakeholders; results of this work include: • Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information, Special Access Program (TS/SCI/SAP), MLS-enabled compute infrastructure that can run multiple M&S tools. • Model repository/knowledge management system that realizes the USD (R&E) vision to enable the sharing of models with industry and allies/partner nations and to support analysis across the defense enterprise as well as provide secure, curated access to completed analysis. • Integrated model development environment that enables the creation of models at all levels of classification from UNCLASSIFIED to Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information, Special Access Program (TS/SCI/SAP) levels to support the Advanced Concept Development effort as well as industry, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), University-Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs), and partner nations and allies. • Team dedicated to the development of new analytic processes and methods based on the creation of new analytical tools that can transition to users across the defense analytic enterprise.