Effects-based strategy development through center of gravity and target system analysis

Christopher M. White; Michael Prendergast; Nicholas Pioch; Eric K. Jones; Stephen Graham

doi:10.1117/12.501979

4 September 2003 Effects-based strategy development through center of gravity and target system analysis

Christopher M. White, Michael Prendergast, Nicholas Pioch, Eric K. Jones, Stephen Graham

Proceedings Volume 5091, Enabling Technologies for Simulation Science VII; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.501979
Event: AeroSense 2003, 2003, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

This paper describes an approach to effects-based planning in which a strategic-theater-level mission is refined into operational-level and ultimately tactical-level tasks and desired effects, informed by models of the expected enemy response at each level of abstraction. We describe a strategy development system that implements this approach and supports human-in-the-loop development of an effects-based plan. This system consists of plan authoring tools tightly integrated with a suite of center of gravity (COG) and target system analysis tools. A human planner employs the plan authoring tools to develop a hierarchy of tasks and desired effects. Upon invocation, the target system analysis tools use reduced-order models of enemy centers of gravity to select appropriate target set options for the achievement of desired effects, together with associated indicators for each option. The COG analysis tools also provide explicit models of the causal mechanisms linking tasks and desired effects to one another, and suggest appropriate observable indicators to guide ISR planning, execution monitoring, and campaign assessment. We are currently implementing the system described here as part of the AFRL-sponsored Effects Based Operations program.

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Christopher M. White, Michael Prendergast, Nicholas Pioch, Eric K. Jones, and Stephen Graham "Effects-based strategy development through center of gravity and target system analysis", Proc. SPIE 5091, Enabling Technologies for Simulation Science VII, (4 September 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.501979

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