Booz Allen rapidly developed and drafted for its USSTRATCOM client a new roadmap plan for developing an improved capability to model and analyze EMS-reliant military operations for senior leadership decision support. It also has been aiding efforts to execute that roadmap across multiple lines of effort that involve numerous partners and participants.
In early 2020, USSTRATCOM contracted with Booz Allen to develop a plan that would serve as the roadmap for the command’s new EMS modeling and analysis initiative. Booz Allen applied a proven modeling and analysis framework to draft the roadmap, which calls for developing a variety of campaign- and mission-level modeling, wargaming, and analysis tools that could inform senior leaders about the impacts of contested EMS. These tools, as they continue to be developed and deployed, will also inform force management and force planning decisions in support of National Defense Strategy implementation.
The Booz Allen team completed a draft of the roadmap in remarkably short time—only 2 weeks. And the Joint Staff subsequently fast-tracked the roadmap through general officers/flag officers review to get it finalized within 1 month after Booz Allen received the initial task. The Joint Staff subsequently used the plan as the basis for answering the 2019 NDAA Congressional tasking. The Joint Staff also identified the USSTRATCOM-led initiative as one of the explicit tasks necessary to implement the DOD EMS Superiority Strategy that the Secretary of Defense signed in 2020.
USSTRATCOM based the plan, titled Joint EMS Operations (JEMSO) Modeling and Analysis Roadmap, on a modeling and analysis framework that Booz Allen utilized and employed to help the U.S. Space Command better understand the campaign- and mission-level effects of a degraded space environment on U.S. military operations.
The JEMSO Modeling and Analysis Roadmap identifies four key objectives:
- Connecting spectrum-dependent capabilities to warfighter missions and mission outcomes
- Using wargaming to investigate warfighter rules and behaviors and to inform campaign-level analysis of contested EMS impacts on warfighter operations
- Integrating EMS operations effects on joint operations into campaign-level tools and analysis
- Using analyses of JEMSO to inform senior leadership decisions, investment, and planning
In short, the plan lays out a broad framework for understanding how specific missions in specific theaters may be vulnerable to degraded EMS environments, so senior leaders can then bring that information to the campaign level to better understand which vulnerabilities should be prioritized for mitigation efforts or budget planning.
