Bringing Analytical Rigor to Joint Warfighting Experimentation
Joint Forces Staff College
Norfolk, Virginia
3-5 October 2006

Dear Colleague:

Collaborative experimentation with customers is a critical component of the vision for military experimentation.  The Joint Warfighting Experimentation process provides an ideal opportunity to examine the risks inherent in military operations in both the uncertain present and future temporal domains.  This workshop will place a particular emphasis on analytical methods and recent experimentation efforts that address assessing analytical rigor in the military environment.

Without assessment, an experiment is just a demonstration.  Assessment / analysis does not happen at the end of the experimentation process, it is integral to it.  Some of the highest payoff in assessment will be early in the concept exploration phase and must be planned and resourced.  Analytical perspective must be embedded throughout the process, especially planning.  If analysis is integral to the experimentation process, the main point to consider is how analytical rigor can be applied throughout the process.

What is meant by analytical rigor in experimentation?  One possible definition is “The application of precise and exacting standards in the examination of a question carried out under controlled conditions to better understand and draw conclusions in order to discover an unknown effect, to test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact, and usually based on careful consideration or investigation.”

The Military Operations Research Society has organized a workshop entitled "Bringing Analytical Rigor to Joint Warfighting Experimentation:  Design, Planning, Execution, Analysis and Reporting.”  This Workshop will research and examine how analytical rigor can be applied in Joint Warfighting Experimentation and will be held 3-5 October 2006 at the Joint Forces Staff College (JFSC) in Norfolk, Virginia.  (For a map to JFSC, go to www.jfsc.ndu.edu)  Registration will begin at 0700 on Tuesday, 3 October.

Prior to the workshop, an operational preparatory session on "Design of Experiments" will be held from 1300-1700 on Monday afternoon, 2 October.  Registration for those attending the tutorial will commence at 1230 on the 2nd.  Registration for the rest of the workshop will begin at 0700 on Tuesday, 3 October.

You are invited to apply to participate in this special meeting.  Attendance will be limited by the space available.  A specific number of slots will be reserved for issue leaders, working group chairs, and synthesis group members.  Other participants will be selected using a combination of the criteria below:

An application form to attend the workshop is enclosed.  Registration fees are:  Entire Workshop (3-5 October) – US Federal Government – Member - $575; Non-Member - $640. Non-US Government – Member - $675; -- Non-Member - $750.  Fees for the one-day Mini-Symposium only (3 October) are:  Members -- $325; Non-Members -- $375. 

We have reserved blocks of rooms at two locations:

There will be a catered buffet lunch each day.  The cost of lunch is $15 per day. Please include lunch fees with your registration fees.

If you make a presentation, you need to fill out a Disclosure Form (Form 712 A or B) and submit it to the MORS Office. A Disclosure Form is attached.   All presentations must be Unclassified and Approved for Public Release.

For more information about this workshop, you can contact the MORS office by phone at 703-933-9070, by FAX at 703-933-9066, or email at morsoffice@mors.org.

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