Measures of Effectiveness for the Information-Age Army - Softcover

Darilek, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0833028472 ISBN 13: 9780833028471

Publisher: RAND Corporation, 2001

Synopsis

The 90s have witnessed the beginning of what future historians may call the Information Age. While it is clear that information will have a farreaching effect on a host of activities including warfarehow to quantify and measure that effect is less clear. The understanding of how to do so is important to the Army, particularly at a time when it is spending a considerable amount of its scarce investment capital to establish Information-Age links across its forces. As it transforms itself, the Army needs analytic tools to help make the best choices possible. Chief among these tools are good measures of effectiveness (MOEs) that can demonstrate the value of information in terms of military outcomes. This document reports on a small set of Information-Age MOEs developed in an attempt to spark the creation of many more such measures. This research demonstrates that development of MOEs is feasible, not only for combat operations but for stability operations as well.

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From the Publisher

This report presents the results of a project sponsored by the Directorof Strategy, Plans, and Policy, Office of the Deputy Chief of Stafffor Operations and Plans, Department of the Army Staff. It reportson project research aimed at developing measures of effectiveness(MOEs) for ground forces in the Information Age. The objective ofthe project was to help the U.S. Army, in both its strategic planningand its operational research communities, begin to identify newMOEs that can capture the improved effectiveness expected toaccrue to ground forces as they exploit Information-Age technologies.* As originally conceived by the sponsor, the purpose of theproject was not to produce a full list of MOEs appropriate to theArmy in the Information Age-or even the last word on the few wepresent-but, rather, to provide a firm foundation for their furtherdevelopment, as well as some prototypes.This research was carried out in the Strategy, Doctrine, and ResourcesProgram of RAND Arroyo Center, a federally funded researchand development center sponsored by the United States Army.

About the Author

RICHARD E. DARILEK (Ph.D., History, 1973, Princeton University) is a RAND employee.

JEROME BRACKEN (Harvard University, Doctor of Business Administration, 1963) is a RAND Consultant.

About this edition

• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0833028472
• ISBN 13: 9780833028471
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 138