Overview

Included in degrees & certificates

• 131
• 311
• 312

Prerequisites

• OS3180
• SE3100

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 

• Describe the DoD and Navy processes for determining required capabilities. 
• Describe the existing Navy taxonomy of capabilities.
• Construct a capabilities portfolio against a given set of missions.
• Construct low-resolution and high-resolution continuous models that represent various military systems at the appropriate level of detail. 
• Construct low-resolution and high-resolution discrete event models that represent various military systems at the appropriate level of detail.
• Demonstrate how to include the probabilistic nature of system performance into mathematical models.
• Interpret the probabilistic results of a model to determine the effectiveness of a system.
• Utilize confidence intervals to capture the stochastic nature of capability models. 
• Perform verification and validation on the mathematical models using theoretical or asymptotic results. 
• Evaluate performance metrics to determine if they are useful for assessing the effectiveness of different systems within a set of alternative designs for a given capability. 
• Perform design of experiments studies to identify the system attributes that significantly impact a given system's capability. 
• Perform a cost assessment of a set of alternative designs for a given capability.