M&S Best Practices
M&S plays a key role in defense training, experimentation, and analysis. Further, it supports all aspects of the acquisition lifecycle including capability analysis, concept development, engineering design, test and evaluation (T&E), and system lifecycle support. Education and training in M&S Best Practices improves the ability to select and use M&S tools effectively and efficiently. This three-day course is a DoD focused treatment of M&S that is appropriate for those with some exposure to M&S use in the DoD who are looking to broaden their experience. It blends the best practices in decision analysis, operations research, DoD validation, and industry standards to provide a comprehensive understanding of how to obtain the best use from applying M&S.
Recommended Attendees
Managers of M&S, recent graduates from a science or engineering program, or those leaving the service for positions where they will use M&S would benefit from this course. Others that would benefit from this course include acquisition professionals in test and evaluation, systems engineering, and program management or those who are the recipients of M&S, contract for M&S, or need to learn more about the issues surrounding the use of M&S.
Learning Objectives
M&S Best Practices will give MS&A professionals more information about M&S so that they can manage and plan for best M&S use in system development and testing, risk mitigation, cost-capabilities trade-off analysis, or training. The students taking these courses will gain insights into when M&S is an appropriate tool and the kind of M&S that is appropriate for their programs. Students will gain an understanding of the following:
- Limits and boundaries of M&S use
- Verification, validation, and accreditation (VV&A)
- Varied perspectives on the application of M&S
- How to tell good M&S from bad
- How to more effectively use available program tools
- Overall understanding of what M&S can do
Topics
Topics in the M&S Best Practices course include:
- Introduction to M&S
- Structuring a Decision Problem
- Developing M&S Requirements
- Conceptual Modeling
- Building a Model
- Developing Simulation Software
- Interoperability
- Introduction to Modeling and Simulation Support Planning
- Introduction to Risk Analysis and Management
- VV&A Key Concepts
- VV&A Basic Process
- Conceptual Model Validation
- Introduction to Results Validation
- Introduction to Validation Planning and Accreditation
- Simulation Reuse
- Standards
Cost, Schedule, and Enrollment
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