System of Systems - Survivability, Lethality, Vulnerability Assessment: Ballistic Vulnerability Modeling Demonstration

摘要

The Survivability/Lethality Analysis Directorate of the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL-SLAD) is the U.S. Army's primary source of survivability, lethality and vulnerability (SLV) analysis and evaluation support, adding value over the entire system life cycle. ARL-SLAD provides SLV analysis and evaluation support to Army Transformation efforts in order to help develop and acquire a system-of-systems (SoS) that will survive and be highly lethal in all environments against the full spectrum of battlefield threats. The Army is undergoing transformation both in its command and control doctrine and in the warfighting technologies it employs. This transformation is rooted in the concept of decentralized decision making enabled by advanced network technologies; thus, the Future Force is viewed as a collaborative, adaptive SoS able to quickly dominate the threat across the spectrum of conflict. While traditional item-level survivability/lethality and vulnerability (SLV) methodologies suffice for legacy forces, new methods are needed for the Future Force. The Army Research Laboratory, in collaboration with Physical Sciences Laboratory of New Mexico State University (NMSU), is taking decisive steps to provide an innovative survivability/lethality and vulnerability assessment (SLVA) capability for the SoS (SoS SLVA) by developing the System-of-Systems Survivability Simulation (S4).