Outgoing defense acquisition chief John Young has tasked the Defense Science Board to examine how the use of modeling and simulation techniques could make the Defense Department's acquisition programs more cost effective. In a Feb. 20 memo, Young asked the panel to examine whether modeling and simulation technologies are mature enough to consider the establishment of a "persistent, reusable M&S environment" in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. The idea, he wrote, is for M&S techniques to enable a...
