Support for Strategic Analysis

Mission— Wargaming & Support for Strategic Analysis

This program supports the Office of the Director, Cost Assessment & Program Evaluation (CAPE). It funds activities that help CAPE to implement the vision of the Deputy Secretary of Defense to support new approaches to campaign analysis. CAPE will accomplish this by leading studies and developing analytic tools to think about future capabilities and posture. This program provides for analytical research across a spectrum of issues and concerns. The research agenda is focused on near to long-term problems identified by the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and addresses difficult and complex questions linked to program alternatives for current and future capabilities and forces in order to enhance the senior leadership's deliberations and decision-making. This program provides the scientific and technical engineering services needed for research studies in the development of models and simulations and the evaluation of current analytical tools and scientific methods used to evaluate and assess future scenarios and concepts of operations for a wide range of warfighting environments and scenarios. Deliverables from this program will include reports, briefings, and analyses designed to illuminate findings and assessments. Outcomes include the compilation and campaign analyses data to support the DoD capabilities to the challenges of a near-peer warfight and strategic and programmatic options for post INF treaty weapons options.

Mission— Wargaming & Support for Strategic Analysis (SSA)

This program supports the Department's initiatives to Deter Aggression, Defend the Homeland, and Build Sustainable and Long-Term Advantage. This program supports the Office of the Director, Cost Assessment & Program Evaluation (CAPE) by funding activities that help CAPE to implement warfighting analysis in support of the interim National Defense Strategy (NDS). The CAPE accomplishes this by leading studies to support campaign analysis and analytical research across a spectrum of national security issues and concerns. These RDT&E resources support critical studies and analyses to assist senior DoD leaders in optimally balancing the lethality, partnership, and reform levels of effort to carry out the NDS. The research agenda focuses on near to long-term problems identified by the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and addresses difficult and complex questions linked to program alternatives for current and future capabilities and forces in order to enhance the senior leadership's deliberations and decision-making. This program provides the scientific and technical engineering services needed for research studies in the development of models and simulations and the evaluation of current analytical tools and scientific methods used to evaluate and assess scenarios and concepts of operations for a wide range of warfighting environments and scenarios. Deliverables from this program will include reports, briefings, and analyses designed to illuminate findings and assessments to inform Operation Plan development and DoD's approach to concept development, joint campaign analysis, evaluation, and force development.

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