Agile Capability Development, Assessment and Transition in Support of the Global War on Terror (GWOT)
October 2007
Dr. R. Cherinka, The MITRE Corporation
J. Mathews, The MITRE Corporation
Dr. R. Miller, The MITRE Corporation
D. Pitcher, The MITRE Corporation
W. R. Sears, The MITRE Corporation
T. Semanchik, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
Net-Centric Solutions, as enabled through distributed
service-oriented architectures, will have a significant
effect on the way the DoD acquires capabilities, thereby
requiring new ways to address the development and
integration of complex enterprises. One approach, based
on commercial best practices, entails establishing an
environment and set of processes for users and
developers to work together in the development and
maturation of capabilities as they transform from
innovation to fielded capability. In this paper, we discuss
an approach that USSOCOM and MITRE are using to
evaluate and mature capabilities that support the Global
War on Terror. It is based on using a distributed
innovation lab environment in conjunction with a series
of warfighter workshops focused on themes and challenge
problems identified by USSOCOM. The workshops are
designed to provide hands-on warfighter immersion into
emerging processes, concepts and capabilities combined
with facilitated discussions to develop and/or refine
CONOPS and Tactics, Techniques and Procedures. We
highlight some of the capabilities provided, techniques
used, challenges faced, and how this approach impacted
the user. Finally, we discuss our future plans to extend
this approach to other customers and locations in order
to fully assess GWOT missions across a net-centric
enterprise.
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