During June 2005 through September 2008, APL conducted a series of Warfare Analysis Laboratory Exercises (WALEXs) in support of the Naval Air Systems Command. The goal of these exercises was to examine a concept then known as the Air-Directed Surface-to-Air Missile (ADSAM) System in support of Navy Overland Cruise Missile Defense. A team of analysts and engineers from APL and elsewhere was assembled to develop a high-fidelity, physics-based engineering modeling process suitable for understanding and assessing the performance of both individual systems and a system of systems. Results of the initial ADSAM Study effort served as the basis for
a series of WALEXs involving senior Flag and General Officers and were subsequently presented to the (then) Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology. (
Keywords: ADSAM, Cruise missiles, Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense, Modeling
and simulation, Overland Cruise Missile Defense.)
Developing an analytical methodology that tied together
a series of previously distinct, stovepiped
high-fidelity engineering models into an integrated
system that allowed the detailed analysis of a system
of systems
Modeling, analyzing, and assessing the performance
limitations of component systems and the overall
system using these high-fidelity system models
Applying the APL Warfare Analysis Laboratory (WAL)
Exercise (WALEX) approach to examine the operational
capability and viability of the proposed system
Using the WAL, its display and visualization capabilities,
and a seminar approach to convey analytical
results and an operational understanding to high-level
decision makers