Distributed collaborative environments for virtual capability-based planning

William K. McQuay

doi:10.1117/12.489028

4 September 2003 Distributed collaborative environments for virtual capability-based planning

William K. McQuay

Proceedings Volume 5091, Enabling Technologies for Simulation Science VII; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.489028
Event: AeroSense 2003, 2003, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Distributed collaboration is an emerging technology that will significantly change how decisions are made in the 21st century. Collaboration involves two or more geographically dispersed individuals working together to share and exchange data, information, knowledge, and actions. The marriage of information, collaboration, and simulation technologies provides the decision maker with a collaborative virtual environment for planning and decision support. This paper reviews research that is focusing on the applying open standards agent-based framework with integrated modeling and simulation to a new Air Force initiative in capability-based planning and the ability to implement it in a distributed virtual environment. Virtual Capability Planning effort will provide decision-quality knowledge for Air Force resource allocation and investment planning including examining proposed capabilities and cost of alternative approaches, the impact of technologies, identification of primary risk drivers, and creation of executable acquisition strategies. The transformed Air Force business processes are enabled by iterative use of constructive and virtual modeling, simulation, and analysis together with information technology. These tools are applied collaboratively via a technical framework by all the affected stakeholders - warfighter, laboratory, product center, logistics center, test center, and primary contractor.

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William K. McQuay "Distributed collaborative environments for virtual capability-based planning", Proc. SPIE 5091, Enabling Technologies for Simulation Science VII, (4 September 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.489028

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