Concept of operations

About: Concept of operations is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 964 publications have been published within this topic receiving 6845 citations. The topic is also known as: CONOPS.

Survey of Human Systems Integration (HSI) Tools for USCG Acquisitions

Abstract: : Human Systems Integration (HSI) is a collection of policies, processes, methods, and tools that are applied in the system acquisition process to ensure people are incorporated into new systems in ways that provide for their health and safety and that support system performance goals. The United States Coast Guard (USCG) uses competitive acquisition contracts to develop many types of products including aircraft, cutters, small boats, communications equipment, surveillance equipment, software suites, weapons, and personal protective equipment. The inclusion of HSI tools and methods in the acquisition process ensures the roles and needs of human operators are addressed concurrently with system development. Because of the diversity of available tools, it can be daunting for system developers to locate and select the right tools for each acquisition phase. This report presents a compendium of HSI tools organized to help you select the right tool for your specific needs. The appendices provide reviews of 34 HSI tools and methods to support requirements and CONOPS development; manning and personnel analysis; workload and situation assessment analysis; and workstation and cockpit design. Eight of these tools and methods have been recommended as a "starter kit" for USCG acquisition use. Elements of this toolset can be used over the entire USCG major acquisition process and can contribute to a wide variety of HSI development activities.

Operations-Focused Optimized Theater Weather Sensing Strategies Using Preemptive Binary Integer Programming

Abstract: : Throughout history, successful military leaders have recognized that weather conditions on the battlefield can play a significant role in determining the victor. For this reason, the United States maintains and equips several different types of military units that are tasked to provide dedicated weather support to operational commanders. These units use a variety of types of sensors with differing capabilities to collect current weather conditions on the battlefield. In support of the commander's Concept of Operations (CONOP), United States military doctrine dictates that, as a part of general military campaign planning, a Meteorological and Oceanographic (METOC) collection plan be developed. This collection plan should specify the allocation of all weather sensing sources within the operational theater and throughout all phases of the military operation. This paper describes a methodology for creating a robust METOC collection plan in support of any given military campaign plan that deploys air, land, maritime, and special operations component weather sensing equipment in a way that maximizes expected detection of operationally significant weather conditions over the largest area possible for a given set of available weather sensors.

The DIM MAK Response of Special Operations Forces to the World of 2025: "Zero Tolerance/Zero Error"

Abstract: : Special operations missions are both enduring and compelling in nature. In the past, special operations forces (SOF) led the way for conventional forces by applying cutting-edge innovative technology and tactics. This Department of Defense (DOD) force multiplier effectively leverages minimum capital investment into military capability equally effective in first, second, and third wave environments. The focus of this paper is to provide new ideas for employing SOF in the world which might exist in 2025. The methodology used allowed team members to produce new concepts of operation, employing innovative technologies against missions which will likely exist within the study time frame. After defining 2025 SOF offensive missions, the study group selected the top three capabilities needed to perform these missions. The three capabilities selected were required in all four SOF offensive missions and the missions could not be performed if any one of the three capabilities were missing. Numerous capabilities are required to successfully accomplish the SOF tasks, but the team restricted research to the top three priority enabling capabilities (EC). The paper takes the reader through a mission validation process which provides justification for the envisioned four SOF offensive missions. Assumptions are used to project these missions into the future. The paper's authors used alternate futures to form the boundaries for concept of operation development and technology solutions. The mission requirements, satisfied by the three ECs, resulted in three sets of unique capability requirements. Proposed technological solutions which might exist in 2025 fulfill requirements of the ECs. The result is a futurist view of SOF offensive missions and how these missions might be accomplished.

The United States Special Operations Command Resource Management Process: An Application of the Strategy-To-Tasks Framework

Abstract: : This report examines how the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) might improve its resource allocation and management process within the structure of the Department of Defense's (DoD's) larger Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS). USSOCOM is unique among U.S. military commands in the way its resources are allocated. It behaves like a service instead of a command. Like the services it has the authority and responsibility to construct a major force program (USSOCOM's program is MFP-11) for the Secretary of Defense to review and include in DoD's budget. The goals and details of the program are submitted in the Program Objective Memorandum (POM). USSOCOM's commander must therefore participate in the decision making process within which all DoD resource decisions are made. This process is the Planning, Programming and Budgeting System. The analysis for this report identified two requirements for improving USSOCOM resource management: (1) a top-to-bottom linkage of Special Operations Forces (SOF) programs that connects high level national security goals with SOF missions, operations, and resources, and (2) a more structured resource management process that uses these top to bottom linkages to clarify the resource issues (the process would include analytic tool support and linked databases) and to involve the components in the resource debate. The framework for supporting resource management that would meet these requirements was adopted from prior research and is known as strategy to tasks. This framework is intended to provide decisionmakers with an end to end concept of operations and to link resource decisions from national security down to tasks.

Result from evaluation of 4D trajectory management with contract-of-objectives

Abstract: Contract-of-Objectives (CoO) is designed in the context of trajectory-based Air Traffic Management (ATM), using mutually agreed objectives between Air Traffic Control (ATC), airlines and airports. This paper provides an overview of the foreseen validation of CoO and discusses the results of the first Human-in-the-Loop (HIL) evaluation of the concept of operations using CoO between Air Traffic Controllers (ATCos). This HIL real time evaluation is carried out in October 2008 in SkyGuide premises in Geneva, Switzerland. Measurements on system performance (i.e., Safety, Efficiency, and Capacity) as well as Human performances (i.e., workload, Situation Awareness, and acceptability) were collected and analyzed. Results show that ATCos are positive with the concept of operations, and they do agree on the principle of flying what were “planned, agreed and negotiated” on the planning phase as opposed to “first come, first served”. Results of the evaluations also show that CoO can be applied to 2008 and 2020 traffic level in Europe without any impact on System Safety.