Modeling and Simulation Staff Officers' Course
Course Objective
Provide a broad understanding of U.S. Partment of Defense (DoD) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) terms, concepts, organizations, and issues, thus enhancing students' ability to:
- Locate M&S resources to solve problems.
- Develop knowledge of M&S terminology, structure and process.
- Incorporate current and emerging policies, regulations, and technologies to organizational decisions regarding M&S.
Course Description
This three-day flagship course of instruction primarily targets two groups of students. The first group is newly assigned military (Officers, and Enlisted), government, civilian, DoD contractor, and allied individuals with little or no modeling and simulation (M&S) experience. The second group is individuals who work in the M&S community but have a tightly focused area of expertise and want to become familiar with a broader perspective of M&S activities, particularly from the United States Department of Defense (DoD) perspective.
Course Goal
This course is to provide students with a foundation of knowledge that will enable them to make informed decisions about the use of M&S in training, analysis, acquisition, planning, intelligence operations, T&E and experimentation activities.
View the MSSOC course outline HERE. The course outline is a general description the MSSOC lessons.
The standard MSSOC is three days, however, it can also be tailored to specific audience areas of interest, and presented in a modified two- up to an enhanced five-day format. We can expand the standard three-day format to include sessions like guest speakers from the local M&S community, panel discussions by local M&S activity leaders, M&S demonstrations, and tours of a local M&S facility. The MSSOC can also be tailored to specific audience areas of interest, such as acquisition, the medical field and many others.
Please direct any application questions to:
Larry Harris, Course Coordinator, (703)933-3339, Email: lharris@alionscience.com
Jim Campbell, M&S Education Program Manager (703)933-3356, Email: jcampbell@alionscience.com
