<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Thomas Allen</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">US Department of Defense Modeling and Simulation: New Approaches and Initiatives</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information &amp; Security: An International Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Interagency</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">JIM</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Joint and Multinational</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Modeling and Simulation; Management; Strategy; Analysis; Business Plan; Irregular Warfare; Global War On Terror; GWOT</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">security</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SSTR</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stability</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Transition and Reconstruction</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">23</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">32-48</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In order to more effectively analyze strategic, force structure, and sys­tems choices associated with the national security environment of the 21st Century, the US Department of Defense is attempting to improve its approach to the devel­opment, management and application of Modeling and Simulation (M&amp;S). It has established a new structure to oversee and integrate M&amp;S activity and directed DoD communities to develop internal business plans to focus that effort. The Analysis Community has responded by identifying desired analytic M&amp;S goals, measuring current capabilities, prioritizing capability gaps, and then outlining potential solu­tions. These activities are being captured as part of an analysis M&amp;S business plan product and process. This paper notes that a key desired outcome is improved M&amp;S to address three areas of particular concern: Irregular Warfare and the Global War on Terror; Stability, Security, Transition and Reconstruction operations; and Joint, Interagency, and Multinational operations. In these areas, the Department is seeking a broad, collaborative approach to engage interagency and allied partners in devel­oping and using new analytic approaches and tools.
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