Advisory board urges Pentagon to harness advanced modeling tools for acquisition, other decisions

By Justin Doubleday / February 5, 2021 at 11:30 AM
The Defense Science Board says the Pentagon could gain "revolutionary" benefits from upgrading and increasing its use of capabilities like digital engineering, virtual exercising, strategic gaming and synthetic environments. In a January report released this week , the DSB's Task Force on Gaming, Exercising, Modeling, and Simulation (GEMS) recommends the Defense Department make better use of the "game-changing set of tools and enablers" to improve decision-making against the backdrop of an increasingly complicated security environment. The task force was chaired...

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