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Symposium Presentation (for Acquisition Research Program) ; Symposium Presentation ; Naval Postgraduate School Acquisition Research Program ; Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2013.646 ; The network has clearly become the dominant paradigm in all information systems domains and the unparalleled degree of connectionism which it enables has radically altered how individuals, businesses, governments, and societies operate and communicate. With the proliferation of unmanned systems (USs) gaining public visibility for peacetime as well as military applications, the influence and capabilities of networks will be extended even further, although perhaps not always in ways that seem desirable.

Proceedings Paper (for Acquisition Research Program) ; Mobility plays a central role in the support of military staff of the German Federal Armed Forces. This demand most often is fulfilled by a central organizational unit which allocates needed vehicles out of a local car pool of the military facility. One essential maxim is to meet the ''approved'' demand for mobility for any military employee of that facility at any time. This paper is based upon the experience out of an optimization project that has been conducted at a large German military facility with about 3000 employees. The optimization effort aimed at two dimensions: Optimization at business process level (qualitative) Optimization at the cost level (quantitative) A short introduction is given into the overall process from the application for a vehicle to the allocation of the needed vehicle. After analyzing the old process and its inefficiencies, a proposal for an improved process design supported by a service oriented software approach is given. The second part of this paper is focused on potential mathematical optimization approaches that can be chosen to reduce cost and make ''intelligent'' allocations to the given demands. The demanding goal was a user-friendly decision support system that is able to make intelligent allocations. ; Naval Postgraduate School Acquisition Research Program ; Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

Emissions trading challenges the management of companies in an entirely new manner: Not only does it, like other market-based environmental policy instruments, allow for a bigger flexibility in management decisions concerning emission issues. More importantly, it shifts the mode of governance of environmental policy from hierarchy to market. But how is this change reflected in management processes, decisions and organizational structures? The contributions in this book discuss the theoretical implications of different institutional designs of emissions trading schemes, review schemes that have

The analysis of military weapon or equipment acquisition is facing numerous challenges, such as rapidly changing and advancing technologies, several cost dimensionsラincluding investment costs, maintenance, or upgradingラas well as public interests. Due to the significant monetary investments required, a transparent and understandable acquisition process is needed. Therefore, especially defense acquisition among NATO partners for the increase of overall efficiency is a desirable goal. We propose a systemic approach, conceptualized under NATO supplying regulations, capable of analyzing the acquisition process of military equipment over multiple layers among NATO partners. The layers differ in their dimensions of analysis. The approach is demonstrated in the paper at hand based on a proof of concept, using artificial data. ; Naval Postgraduate School Acquisition Research Program

The analysis of military weapon or equipment acquisition is facing numerous challenges, such as rapidly changing and advancing technologies, several cost dimensions--including investment costs, maintenance, or upgradingラas well as public interests. Due to the significant monetary investments required, a transparent and understandable acquisition process is needed. Therefore, especially defense acquisition among NATO partners for the increase of overall efficiency is a desirable goal. We propose a systemic approach, conceptualized under NATO supplying regulations, capable of analyzing the acquisition process of military equipment over multiple layers among NATO partners. The layers differ in their dimensions of analysis. The approach is demonstrated in the paper at hand based on a proof of concept, using artificial data. ; Naval Postgraduate School Acquisition Research Program

Proceedings of the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference C. Laroque, J. Himmelspach, R. Pasupathy, O. Rose, and A.M. Uhrmacher, eds ; This paper presents the positions of seven international experts regarding current and future grand challenges for modeling and simulation (M&S) supporting the defense and security domain. Topics addressed include new interoperability issues, real-time analysis challenges, evolving military and training exercises, the future role and importance of Operations Research and M&S, modeling human teams and cultural behavior challenges, how to support successful co-evolving of research and academic programs, and the implications of enterprise postures and operational concepts of future M&S. In summary, all contributions focus on a particular facet that in summary help to understand the conceptual, technical, and organizational challenges we are currently facing.