Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 Technological Prospects for DOD's M&S; 5 3 Potential Failures and Disasters for DOD's M&S; 6 4 Dealing with and Improving DOD's M&S; 7 5 Focusing Warfare Research and Improving M&S; 8 6 Creating and Improving Intellectual and Technological Infrastructure for M&S; 9 7 Challenges in Assimilating and Exploiting M&S Technology; 10 Bibliography; 11 Appendix A: Terms of Reference; 12 Appendix B: Virtual Engineering: Toward a Theory for Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems; 13 Appendix C: Simulation-based Acquisition; 14 Appendix D: Exploratory Analysis; 15 Appendix E: Multi-resolution Modeling and Integrated Families of Models; 16 Appendix F: Model Repositories and Assembly and Integration of Models; 17 Appendix G: Components of a Theory of Modeling and Simulation; 18 Appendix H: Areas of Research in Modeling and Simulation; 19 Appendix I: Combat Modeling Issues; 20 Appendix J: Probabilistic Dependencies in Combat Models; 21 Appendix K: M&S-related Education; 22 Appendix L: Acronyms and Abbreviations

About the Author

Committee on Technology for Future Naval Forces, National Research Council