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Working Group 30 Charter
Operational Environment - Factors Interactions and Impacts
(Last Updated 14 September 2007)
Purpose: The Operational Environment – Factors, Interactions and Impacts Working Group provides a forum for discussions of the environment’s role in the full spectrum of military operations from warfighting to non-adversarial crisis response (e.g., peacekeeping and humanitarian relief). The operational environment includes factors that are natural (atmosphere, ocean, space and terrain), human-constructed (physical infrastructure), and abstract (political, social, cultural, and economic). The focus of this WG is the synergistic interactions of these factors as they impact military operations, including systems and the warfighter. The broad scope of our interests includes quantitative assessments of the impact of the environment on military operations; the technology of environmental sensing, data fusion, and exploitation; and concepts for the architecture and operation of environmental support of the warfighter. In keeping with Joint Vision 2020, the persistence of the asymmetric threat, and this year’s conference theme, “ Expanding Analysis for a More Secure World, this WG solicits thought-provoking presentations of studies, research and development, and experiments, including interesting and innovative techniques, dealing with less traditional military operations (e.g., non-conventional warfighting, peacekeeping, humanitarian relief), homeland security and defense, counterterrorism, emergency management, and disaster relief.
Discussion: The Operational Environment, natural, human-constructed, and abstract, has always played a critical role in military operations, both in planning and execution. As we proceed into the 21 st Century, military system development and testing, personnel training, and planning and analysis will rely more on simulated exercises in realistic, synthetic environments. Similarly, the depiction of the operational environment is becoming an aspect of Dominant Battlespace Awareness (DBA). This Dominant (Environmental) Battlespace Awareness will require new paradigms for data collection, processing and distribution of information, and exploitation in real time for tactical advantage.
Other Working Groups: Working Group 30 is an integral component of Composite Group F (Advances in Military Operations Research) and has a close working relationship with WG-31 (Computing Advances in Military Operations Research), WG-16 (Special Operations & Irregular Warfare), and WG-13 (Littoral Warfare & Regional Sea Control).
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