Using assessment Methods and Tools to Understand Joint Battlespace Digitization (JBD)

This paper reports the authors current research into an integrated approach to Joint Battlespace Digitization JBD analysis. The work describes an approach to establishing a toolset that is useful to understand the JBD, existing policies on JBD lack clear directives in certain areas, which may inhibit its benefits and timely exploitation of military situations. There are several methods being developed that are potentially useful for analyzing JBD but several question arise 1 How do they relate to the overall needs of the JBD analyst 2 How do they integrate within an overall analytical approach 3 What methods can we employ for assessing the completeness of our analysis A new assessment is used to interact and share information between the various aspects of JBD analysis. This toolset is built around Strategy To Task STT, which enables identification of requirements for JBD and to assess potential options, and System Dynamics SD to enable analysis of factors which contribute to mission effectiveness of JBD and to investigate the importance of these factors and also to enable the analysis of specific technical parameters leading to validation of STT assessment. Using different analysis elements is, illustrating the use of these methods tools in the study.