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5 Survivability and Lethality Analysis Directorate
5 Survivability and Lethality Analysis Directorate
Pages 37-42
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Finally, SLAD is tasked with supporting special studies and inquiries motivated by and affecting current operations. In contrast to most other directorates at ARL, SLAD's portfolio includes relatively little applied research funding, and no basic research funding.
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES Most Significant Advances SLAD's continued development of the Modular UNIX-based Vulnerability Estimation Suite (MUVES) -3 software infrastructure reflects both modern management and technology for a substantial software program; as noted above, successful completion of MUVES-3 (with validated transition of component tools from the current production environment)
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The development of the Mission and Means Framework (MMF) , a collaboration between the current SLAD Director and the preceding Interim Director, represents a key step in developing a holistic process allowing subsystem and platform performance to be reflected in an assessment of overall mission effectiveness for both current systems and those under consideration for the future.
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The Board is skeptical that S4 represents a robust methodology that would support SoS SLV analysis for FCS; it is more valuable as a tool for development of insight motivating other tool development than as an assessment methodology per se. The Board has strongly recommended that SLAD propose to ARL management an approach to an SoS Strategic Technology Initiative not based exclusively on S4.
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While understandable, future SLAD critical contributions to Army needs are contingent upon continued development of SoS assessment techniques. In 2006, ARL management indicated that it was willing to consider a Strategic Technology Initiative in the area of SoS methodology under SLAD leadership.
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CROSSCUTTING ISSUES OF RELEVANCE TO THE DIRECTORATE Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board discussion of validation, verification, and accreditation (VV&A) is highly relevant to SLAD.
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