Requirements Analysis and Maturation

Requirements Analysis and Maturation under the Air Force's Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) Management Support budget activity, aims to fund development planning activities such as requirements analysis, capability decomposition, and trade space characterization. These activities are geared towards developing mature concepts that are technically feasible, operationally relevant, and militarily useful. The program also focuses on providing the analytical basis for cost and capability trades driving non-materiel and/or materiel solutions. Additionally, it aims to inform investment decisions leading to successful acquisition programs through early-phase systems engineering and technical planning activities.

Under the same program element, Project 666157: Development Planning specifically funds activities that analyze Air Force capability needs and requirements to identify potential shortfalls and opportunities. It formulates candidate concepts and solution options addressing identified capability needs and shortfalls while conducting coordinated early systems engineering to derive key capability trades, technology needs, and cost and schedule implications. The project emphasizes informing strategic planning and operational experimentation by analyzing multi-domain capabilities that prioritize non-materiel solutions before generating materiel needs and requirements. It also focuses on developing advanced capability concepts with appropriate partners and stakeholders to inform investment priorities and acquisition decisions.

Project 666158: Integrated Simulation and Analysis, also under Program PE 0606017F, provides a collaborative cross-organizational, multi-domain enterprise system-of-systems perspective in synthetic environments for modeling, simulation, analysis, and experimentation of systems. This effort supports development planning, capabilities assessment, acquisition decisions, developmental and operational testing, and training requirements by combining real-time and constructive simulations with Modeling and Simulation powered war-gaming. The project aims to develop enterprise capable cross-domain system-of-systems modeling, simulation, and analysis capabilities to support development planning activities.

Overall, the goals of these budget elements within Program PE 0606017F are aligned with enhancing the Air Force's capabilities through informed investment decisions based on rigorous analysis of requirements, concept development, modeling & simulation-based experimentation, and strategic planning activities.