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Military modeling and simulation: Enhancing defense analytics with FutureScape

In the rapidly evolving landscape of global conflicts and technological advancements, military modeling and military simulation have become indispensable tools for strategic planning and decision-making. As nations strive to maintain their competitive edge, leveraging advanced defense analytics is crucial. This is where Deloitte’s FutureScape platform comes into play, offering a cutting-edge solution to address the complex challenges faced by modern military leaders.


The geopolitical landscape is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the rapid advancement of technology and the velocity of information dissemination. Traditional boundaries of power are being redrawn, and the United States can no longer assume uncontested military operations. The days of planning missions using whiteboards and Excel sheets are now obsolete. In this dynamic environment, military leaders need better tools to identify capability gaps, test new capabilities, and uncover new force design strategies to meet the challenges of contested environments and the evolving landscape of war.
 

The importance of military simulation

Modeling and simulation are cornerstones in strategic planning and decision-making across various sectors. They enable organizations to save time and money when developing technologies or strategic initiatives. In the realm of military simulation, there are three primary types: event-driven, agent-based, and dynamical. Each type serves a unique purpose, helping military leaders understand system behaviors, feedback loops, and interdependencies.

Event-driven simulations model systems where changes occur at discrete points in time, such as a manufacturing process. These simulations focus on resource utilization, performance, and process optimization. Agent-based simulations, on the other hand, model systems defined by individual agents interacting with the environment and each other. This type of simulation is particularly useful for studying emergent behavior, which cannot be programmed ahead of time, making it ideal for military wargaming. Dynamical simulations model systems where understanding the physical and chemical effects is crucial, using differential equations to simulate scenarios like battery drain or wing shape performance.

Introducing FutureScape

Deloitte’s FutureScape platform is a flexible, configurable, agent-based digital twin simulation platform that can simulate millions of agents and their interactions in complex, multisystem environments. FutureScape empowers military leaders to address complex planning problems and explore disruptive operating concepts and capabilities that lie beyond what is presently characterized by available data and existing intuition.

FutureScape allows for the rapid evaluation of new strategies, investments, and force designs. It supports large-scale simulations quickly and simultaneously, providing insights at the speed of change. By simulating thousands of missions, people, vehicles, and bases over a single day, FutureScape offers a comprehensive view of potential outcomes and helps military leaders make informed decisions.

Applications and benefits of FutureScape

FutureScape’s agent-based approach is well-suited for military campaign analysis because it better reflects units with unique objectives and responsibilities interacting over time. This allows for the study of emergent behavior, which is exactly what military leaders need to understand the complex problems they face. Traditional simulation tools like AFSIM or STORM fall short of meeting the needs of military planners in the 21st century.

The platform takes a layered approach to create the building blocks necessary to represent complex, real-world systems. Different layers provide functionality for different types of agents, such as blue/red forces, vehicles, personnel, equipment, and communication. World-state information, including geography, road networks, infrastructure, airports, and seaports, is also incorporated. These layers are composed with well-defined interfaces that support multiple levels of customization and fidelity.

FutureScape’s modular design allows for the easy addition of new domains or modification of behaviors and effects. This flexibility is particularly important for evaluating the efficacy of strategic acquisitions, force designs, Courses of Action (COAs), logistics, and sustainment plans. By conducting virtual exercises in a high-fidelity simulation environment, agencies can evaluate new concepts and OPLANS, making more risk-informed decisions.

Enhancing mission readiness with FutureScape

FutureScape helps military leaders maximize mission readiness across different logistics strategies, sustainment support plans, and COAs. The platform enables the rapid exploration of ideas through hypothesis testing and dramatically improves the feasibility of OPLANs in representative conflict environments. The generated data is stored and accessible, providing data-driven insights to military leaders and integrating with existing data platforms.

In today’s rapidly evolving digital era, agencies require a partner with experience in data and advanced analytics. Deloitte, a worldwide leader in data and analytics services, offers a team with expertise in advanced analytics, modeling, simulation, data visualization, human-centered design, and data science. Supported by a global workforce and industry partnerships, Deloitte delivers high-quality, flexible, and comprehensive modeling and simulation support for multi-domain operations.

Conclusion

As the United States navigates the complexities of modern warfare and geopolitical tensions, leveraging advanced military modeling and simulation tools like FutureScape is essential. By providing a data-driven basis for decision-making and enabling the rapid evaluation of new strategies, FutureScape empowers military leaders to maintain a dominating posture in Great-Power Competition scenarios. With Deloitte’s expertise and innovative solutions, the future of military planning and defense analytics is brighter than ever.

Get in touch

Steve Hardy, PhD

Managing Director

Defense, Security& Justice

Strategy & Analytics Deloitte

Consulting LLP

sthardy@deloitte.com

Mobile: +1.571.858.0591

Liv Weller

Product Manager

FutureScape Strategy

& Analytics Deloitte

Consulting LLP

oweller@deloitte.com

Mobile: +1.703.253.2390

Timothy Darrah, PhD, PMP

Technical Point of Contact

FutureScape Strategy &

Analytics Deloitte

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tdarrah@deloitte.com

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