Putting Innovation into Practice

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1 Putting Innovation into Practice Connections 2015 Paul Works TRADOC Analysis Center Fort Leavenworth (TRAC-FLVN)

2 Purpose and Outline Purpose: Provide an overview for how agencies successfully move ideas into practice: accomplishing innovation. Outline Introduction and Innovation Basics. Examples: Ideas Innovations. Arsenal Ship. C3 Driver. Irregular Warfare Tactical Wargame. Synthetic Staff Ride: Mindanao. Lessons Identified/Lessons Learned. 28 July 2015 Putting Innovation into Practice 2

3 Introduction and Innovation Basics Buzzword: Innovation. Widely used and referenced in media, literature, academia, commercial businesses, and governments. Innovation as a concept can be powerful. Overuse dilutes its meaning. Its application to conceal lack of substance can be disingenuous. When used to structure an organizational mindset it can enable a flexible workforce and a corporate capability to respond to current and future challenges. Continually introduces new ideas or ways of thinking, then translates them into action to solve specific problems or seize new opportunities. Innovation can be loosely categorized into three levels. Incremental. Small changes to processes or products. Breakthrough. Change giving customers something new. Transformational. Transforms the way work is done. Rare. There are nearly always risk-aversion inhibitions. Why change what works? Perceived impacts on credibility and reputation. Problem Solving / Innovation Continuum At the core of innovation is the need to improve or change a product, process, or service. Innovation responds to that need. 28 July 2015 Putting Innovation into Practice 3

4 Example 1: Arsenal Ship Arsenal Ship USN and DARPA Joint Program Office. Non-ACAT, acquisition reform, demonstration project. Description. Vertical Launch Weapons Army Tactical Missile System Standard Missile Tomahawk Land Attack Missile Vertical Gun for Advanced Ships Low observable, carrier-sized platform, manned by approximately 50 personnel, that would carry up to 500 vertical launch tubes for power projection and air-defense operations. Controlled via Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) (+) network. Wargaming Use. Weapons and Tactics Analysis Center (WEPTAC), NAWC-WD, China Lake, CA. Down-selected industry teams applied their system and CONOPS against operational requirements using the WEPTAC II wargame simulation. USN, USA, and USMC participants. Ideas. Multiple solutions presented to meet operational requirements. Sophisticated, multi-agent asset control (sensor-to-shooter); to any echelon, to any service. Weapon control and launch authorization responsibilities, operator out-of-the-loop. Maintenance handled via reach-back web connectivity. Defense requirements vs. information warfare (now called cyber). Ideas Innovations. Concepts informed numerous follow-on efforts. Sensor-to-shooter: SSBN to SSGN conversion, UCAV, US-UK Sensor-to-Shooter. Operator out-of-loop, weapon control, SA requirements, reach-back: FCS, BCT technologies. Network-centric enabling capabilities, and vulnerabilities: Patriot, CEC. ACAT Acquisition Category FCS Future Combat System UCAV Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle BCT Brigade Combat System NAWC-WD Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division USA U.S. Army DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency SSBN Ballistic Missile Submarine USMC U.S. Marine Corps 28 CONOPS July 2015 Concept of Operations SSGN Guided Missile Submarine USN U.S. NavyPutting Innovation into Practice 4

5 Example 2: C3 Driver Command, Control, and Communications (C3) Driver (to present). PEO-STRI and ATEC. Description. Objective: Consolidate the sim / stim / test environment that exists at the CTSF to support ABCS development, integration, test, and certification. Wargaming Use. Joint and Combined Operations Directorate, TRAC-FLVN. JANUS, OneSAF, and MAPEXes used to develop common test scenarios. Ideas. Scenarios require structured [doctrinal] message traffic (mission/message threads) to define ABCS box stimulation and message traffic. Establish single agency for consolidated ABCS functionality requirements. Sophisticated GUI and technology can meet functionality requirements; 14 components, 1 box. Ideas Innovations. Ideas revolutionized how ABCS/battle command system testing is accomplished and enabled system-of-system (SoS) improvements. Doctrinal-based mission/message threads established a full SoS test process. TPIO-BC (later AIMD) established as single-agency test requirements definer. SoS test requirements forced common message formats across all ABCS systems. The C3 Driver system enables a single test officer to plan, execute, monitor, and assess tests. Visual and digital SA on messaging led to modified inter- and intra-toc SoS network structures. ABCS Army Battle Command System GUI Graphical Use Interface PEO-STRI Program Executive Office for AIMD Architecture Integration and Management Div. MAPEX Map Exercise Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation ATEC Army Test and Evaluation Command OneSAF One Semi-Automated Force TPIO-BC TRADOC Program Integration Office - 28 CTSF July 2015Whitfill Central Test Support Facility SWB Software Blocking Battle Putting Command Innovation into Practice 5

6 Example 3: IW Tactical Wargame Irregular Warfare Tactical Wargame (IW TWG) (+) TRADOC Analysis Center + 12 key partners (CNA, OSD CAPE, HSCB). Description. Objective: Create an analytic capability to inform decisions concerning operations in an IW operating environment - how to change, how to invest in change, how to conduct operations, and how to measure impacts. Wargaming Use. TRADOC Analysis Center, SAC/OSD CAPE, CNA, ANL, TRISA, UC Davis, CRA, Texas A&M, NPS, and others developed the IW TWG. Applied IW TWG to support studies, and inform development. Ideas. We can build a tactical wargame (initially, analog) that can show impacts IW TWG Components PAVE CG Model OWA Oz II/III Nexus IESE Model IES Model SAF Model MISO Planning Tool across a range of measures when applying changes systems, organizations, and TTP. We can identify many of the best experts in the field and can leverage their products. Ideas Innovations. Successfully developed the IW TWG, informed other efforts. Directly informed two studies: Civil Affairs at the tactical level. CoIST impacts. Informed two other model development efforts: Athena and COEM. Concepts led to IW LOE/PMESII states-vector and entity cognition research. Army V&V process developed for representing Social science (theory) representations. Operational Wrap-Around (OWA) leveraged for application as a leadership development tool. ANL Argonne National Labs IES Infrastructure and Essential Services PAVE Planning, Adjudication, Visualization Environment CG Cultural Geography IESE Infrastructure, Essential Services, and Economics PMESII Political, Military, Economic, Social, Infrastructure, CNA Center for Naval Analyses LOE Lines of Effort and Information COEM Complex Operational Environment Model MISO Military Information Support Operations SAC Simulation Analysis Center CoIST Company Intelligence Support Team NPS Naval Post Graduate School SAF Semi-Automated Force CRA Charles River Analytics OSD CAPE Office of the Secretary of Defense Cost TRISA TRADOC G2 Intelligence Support Activity 28 HSCB July 2015 Human, Social, Culture, Behavior Program Assessment and Program Evaluation TTP Tactics, Techniques, Putting Innovation Procedures into Practice 6

7 Example 4: SSR Mindanao Synthetic Staff Ride (SSR): Mindanao. TRAC. Description. Boardgame representing a current-day, complex operating environment (OE) in the Philippines. Wargaming Use. TRAC, CNA, CGSC, and the MCBL designed and developed the SSR: Mindanao. Development support provided by ARI, NPS, TRISA, and UFMCS. Leveraged knowledge of extant wargame/boardgame components and mechanics. Ideas. Provide operational unit staffs (in garrison) and Army students with a wargaming tool that: A. Introduces the participants to a complex Phase 0/1 OE. B. Challenges the participants to understand and navigate the environment. C. Provides leaders, instructors, and participants with insights into ADP 6-22 leadership competencies and attributes. Wargame should enable experiential applications similar to previous Fulda Gap sand tables. Ideas Innovations. Used the SSR at CGSC. March 2015, SSR: Mindanao was used as an end-of-course, practical exercise for the CGSC SOF Advanced Studies course (SOF Element, Department of Joint, Interagency and Multinational Operations, CGSC). Intend to use again in March Provided copies to multiple operational units and agencies. ARI Army Research Institute NPS Naval Post Graduate School CNA Center for Naval Analyses SOF Special Operations Forces CGSC Command and General Staff College TRISA TRADOC G2 Intelligence Support Activity 28 MCBL July 2015 Mission Command Battle Lab UFMCS University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies Putting Innovation into Practice 7

8 Lessons Identified/Lessons Learned What all Attempts to Turn Ideas into Innovations Require Ownership, passion. Persistence, proactive energy by lead. Active management of assets and actions. A vision/concept that can be explained, supporters and support established. Understand concept(s) and how it can be used in new ways, with other products. Identify and explain patterns and synergies. Think win-win. Taking action. Conceptualize, then start doing things. Avoid the not developed here wall. Be willing to admit when someone has an improvement over the base concept. An ability to take risks, make mistakes. Willingness to step outside the box, outside comfort zone. Challenge the status quo. Escaping to think. Secluded brainstorming sessions and workshops; spend time together. Capture thoughts and white board content, write things down. A product/system of more utility than what has been used before. Underlying aspects may be complex, sophisticated, nuanced. Near-term utility must be relatively easy to understand and be tangible. It must be compatible with the way people currently do things. Intermittent, visual successes and products that can be used. Timing and receptiveness. Superior results emerge when all aspects fire in unison. Provide intent and focus for innovation; link to mission. The proof s in the pudding: assess results, measure what s meaningful. 28 July 2015 Putting Innovation into Practice 8

9 Discussion Contact Info Paul Works Director, Analysis Development Group TRADOC Analysis Center Ft. Leavenworth (913) July 2015 Putting Innovation into Practice 9