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This document addresses how the Strategic Contractor Planning Tool prototype meets the requirements set forth in the Contingency Contractor Optimization Phase 2, Tool Requirements Document. The document describes the rationale behind the development and selection of user roles, use cases, workflows, output graphs, and storyboards.
This report provides documentation of the overarching architecture for the Strategic Contractor Planning Tool and framework. The report describes the system organization, high-level system structure, and interfaces. Various architectural views provide descriptions of the planning tool architecture, information flow, and functionality. The information flow serves to tie together the architecture, analytic framework and existing capabilities. This report highlights the potential integration points for the planning tool within the existing OSD and DoD strategic planning activities. Many existing tools, policies, and information can be leveraged as inputs to this planning tool, including strategic planning information, personnel, and cost resources. These resources are listed and discussed. A high-level description of the planning tool functionality and usage are also described.
This document represents the results of Task 1 (Requirements Elicitation) in Phase 2 of the Contingency Contractor Optimization project. The aim of the overall effort is to create a tool for the contingency contractor element of total force planning during the Support for Strategic Analysis (SSA). The goal of Phase 2 is to develop an electronic storyboard prototype of a tool for use in conjunction with the strategic planning framework of the SSA that can be used for communication with senior decision makers and other strategic contract support stakeholders.
The goal of Phase 2 the OSD ATL Contingency Contractor Optimization project is to create a prototype of a tool for the contingency contractor element of total force planning during the Support for Strategic Analysis (SSA). An optimization model was developed to determine the optimal mix of military, Department of Defense (DoD) civilians and contractors that accomplishes a set of user defined mission requirements at the lowest possible cost while honoring resource limitations and manpower use rules. Additional features allow the model to understand the variability of the Total Force Mix when there is uncertainty in mission requirements and recommend where investments in manpower capabilities might minimize the overall total force costs in future operations.