Concepts Experimentation Program

This project enables the Army to develop, integrate and help synchronize capability requirements and solutions into the operational force to meet the Army's goal to deliver and design future Army. Funding ensures that the Warfighter is independently represented by, complementing the materiel and non-material developers, providing total capability management that integrates all doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, and facilities (DOTMLPF) considerations. This project provides resources to execute Capability Development and Integration Directorate (CDID) Battle Lab experimentation, assessments and analysis addressing the Army's most significant modernization challenges. The Army plans and conducts experiments to gain insights and recommendations in the development of integrated concepts and requirements to inform Army Senior Leader modernization decisions through the results of a rigorous Campaign of Learning. Funding in this project enables maintenance of the Army Capability- based Architecture Development and Integration Environment (ArCADIE) providing storage, accessibility, production, and certification of authoritative architecture data and supporting systems. ArCADIE enables the process to develop, verify and validate operational architecture for eight major BCT formations.

This project supports the Army's campaign of learning experimentation called Project Convergence (PC) . PC is a multi-year Army hosted joint and coalition experimentation plan focused on designing and delivering the Army of the future. This is a concept-informed experiment that incorporates deliberate modernization efforts in a field environment. Continuous, planning and structured series of demonstrations and experiments culminates at Capstone. This singular periodic experiment pulls together concepts, technology, requirements, and gaps. The purpose of these efforts is to learn and mitigate risk for current and future forces. Joint Services, Army Organizations, industry and academia collaborate in the development, refinement, and assessment and outcomes of future force concepts, capabilities and formations. This project also supports research required to oppose adversary technologies in the operational environment.

This project supports current and future concepts and capabilities development, design and integration in support of the Army Vision and Army Modernization Strategy. Experimentation focuses on the latest Army Warfighting Concept, operational and organizational concepts to validate and provide insights to develop and design the future Army. Live, virtual, and constructive environments explore concepts, capability, and formation requirements. Potential solutions across Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and Education, Personnel, and Facilities (DOTMLPF) domains are developed. 3 x Concept Focused Warfighting Experiment (CFWE) assessments (C2 and Counter C2, Cross Domain Fires, Expanded Maneuver) in order to inform the development of new capabilities and requirements. assessments executed in the field with human participants with emerging technology to emulate relevant threat assessments. These efforts result in lessons learned and mitigate risk for current and future forces. Experiments and multi-scale assessments inform Army future concepts and assess high-risk conceptual assumptions in order to focus required capabilities, formations and represent user requirements in the future Army. Experiments use the combined resources of Army Battle Laboratories, operating force units, research laboratories, materiel developers, concept developers industry, and academia to collaborate in the development, refinement, and assessment of future force concepts, capabilities and Army formations. This project also supports the Army's Simulation-Based Experiments (SIMEX) and Table Top Exercises (TTX) to integrate and assess near, mid, and far-term future force concepts, force designs, and Future capabilities.