Geo-Political Analysis and Modeling Environment (GAME): A Decision Support Tool for U.S. Naval Future Force Architecture Analysis

Determining the composition of future naval force architectures has never depended so critically upon understanding the emerging geo-political environment as it does today. At the same time, however, the end of the Cold War and emergence of non-stateasymmetric threat entities have removed the key anchor assumptions that guided long-term naval strategic planning for over five decades. Furthermore, an explosion of data as part of the global revolution in information technology has accompanied the risein uncertainty associated with the on-going geo-strategic paradigm shift. The combination of ambiguous future trends and ubiquitous praecognita electronica have left naval force architecture analysts drowning in data but starving for information thatprovides fiscally and culturally constrained alternative geo-political contexts. Cyberneutics, Inc. and its subcontractor Veridian Systems Division, Inc. propose to address this situation with the Geo-Political Analysis and Modeling Environment (GAME), astandard methodology and decision support tool to assist long-term context development for force design and planning efforts. GAME will provide an end-to-end environment where analysts making geo-political predictions can build