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The Right Metrics and the Right Partner

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The U.S. Navy achieved a lot of successes in Desert Storm. However, we should never miss an opportunity to relook at every decision and performance metric so that we can do better the next time.

Central Command, led U.S. and coalition naval forces in Desert Storm. For more information about CNA’s analysis in Desert Storm, please visit our Analysis in Combat page. The U.S. Navy achieved a lot ... effectiveness to counter the threat. This was to be an expedited study, with a limited number of live-fire missiles provided. In VX-1 we had an assigned CNA Operations Evaluation Group (OEG) field ... of flight. I asked my embarked CNA representative to inquire whether CNA would be interested in doing such a study. We received lots of pushback from the Tomahawk program office and from intelligence agencies

Game-Based Experimentation for Research in Command and Control and Shared Situational Awareness

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This paper documents an experiment, a series of games played by teams, conducted in the spring of 2002.

This paper documents an experiment, a series of games played by teams, conducted in the spring of 2002. Summary This paper documents the support CNA provided to the Warfare Analysis and Research ... , and the Naval War College. The test bed was the internet-based game SCUDHunt , developed earlier by CNA and ThoughtLink Inc. for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In this simple yet ... operational tempo. Improving our understanding of the variables that affect shared situational awareness is critical to implementing these future concepts. CNA’s previous work for the Defense Advanced

Wargame Helps a Naval SYSCOM Develop its Wartime Acquisition Response Plan

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Discusses the how the development of Warime Acquisition Response Plans (WARP) support the rapid expansion of acquisition capabilities in support of major combat operations.

transition from peacetime to crisis or wartime acquisition. TTXs and other wargames can help leaders to think through future operational scenarios and make corresponding decisions. Because CNA ... and analysis. As such, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) asked CNA to develop and conduct a TTX that would identify wartime requirements from supported commanders and test NAVFAC’s ability to respond to those demands. CNA took a holistic approach to identify the challenges, opportunities, and insights needed to advance NAVFAC’s understanding of the wartime acquisition problem

Data Science Division

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Data Scientists at the Center for Naval Analyses develop innovative predictive and prescriptive analytics to tackle the most important challenges in the Department of Defense.

that insights can be developed iteratively and acted upon quickly. CNA’s Data Science Division, led by Vice President of Data Science Tim Kao, consists of approximately 30 data scientists with graduate ...  to Plan (P2P), which is co-chaired by the Vice Chief of Naval Operations and the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition. CNA presents senior Navy leadership at the P2P ... PERFORMANCE, THEN IDENTIFY ROOT CAUSES Our approach has three fundamental steps: Predictive analytics. CNA data scientists use modeling and simulation tools to construct a set of models

Jason Thomas

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Thomas is the vice president and director of CNA’s Operational Warfighting Division, and the director of CNA’s Operations Evaluation Group. He has wide-ranging experience in systems analysis and operations research, working on such issues as preparedness assessments, warfighting requirements, operational evaluations, formal IT development, and intelligence fusion. His most recent work at CNA ... ISR technologies. In other work over his 14-year career at CNA, Dr. Thomas has conducted research and analysis for the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency

Timothy Beres

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Timothy Beres Timothy L. Beres Executive Vice President, Institute for Public Research /images/About-Us/Leadership/Tim-Beres.webp Timothy Beres has led CNA’s Institute for Public Research since 2015. During this period, CNA’s research portfolio for civilian federal, state, and local government agencies has doubled in size. He has developed new areas of support to government—including corrections ... an environment to foster cooperation and empower individual leadership around shared values. Over the previous eight years, Beres led CNA’s Safety and Security portfolio, which spans criminal justice

Capabilities and Solutions

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Capabilities and Solutions Capabilities and Solutions. CNA builds custom AI models for mission-specific tasks, transforming large quantities of raw information into actionable insights that would otherwise be invisible. Machine learning techniques—from deep learning to image classification and generative AI—allow CNA to discover the hidden patterns embedded in large datasets, increasing efficiency while delivering personalized solutions to complex problems. In congressional testimony, now-retired Admiral William Lescher praised CNA’s “exceptional data scientist group…that uses data

Department of the Navy and Strategic Competition with the PRC

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Near-term recommendations for how the Navy can better position itself for competition below the threshold of armed conflict..

of Staff to the Secretary of the Navy asked the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) for near-term recommendations for how DON can better position itself for such competition in peacetime— that is, below ... . Consequently, every research division at CNA participated. Data for this project came from four sources: a review of key US government (USG), Department of Defense (DOD), and DON strategic documents; a series of workshops conducted by CNA with US Navy (USN), US Marine Corps (USMC), and US Coast Guard (USCG) stakeholders; discussions with active and retired DON officials; and a review of a large body

3 Steps Toward Transforming the Department of Defense

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The Future of Defense Task Force of the House Armed Services Committee recently released a roadmap to prepare the U.S. Department of Defense for the battlefield of the future.

program at CNA. In her 15 years at CNA, Hoar has also served as a senior research scientist and project director, as well as CNA's scientific advisor to the Marine Corps Training and Education Command ... bureaucracy. As the director of CNA’s Organizations, Roles, and Missions program , I have led teams to support many DOD organizations as they transformed their operations, including the standup of the U.S. ... a federally funded research and development center to plan for a Department of the Space Force. CNA was selected for the project, and we began trying to design based on the National Defense Authorization

Does Kim Jong Un Have a Succession Plan?

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Kim Jong Un has not been seen in public since April 11, feeding considerable speculation about his well-being and the future of the North Korean regime.

. /images/InDepth/Post54.jpg Does Kim Jong Un Have a Succession Plan? 54 Chris Steinitz, Ken Gause and Elizabeth Yang Chris Steinitz directs the North Korea program at CNA, focusing on North Korean ... methodologies for examining leadership dynamics of hard-target, authoritarian regimes. Elizabeth Yang is Research Assistant with CNA’s Adversary Analytics Program. This article originally ran on 38 ... about Kim Jong Un's successor, and towards the consideration of realistic scenarios of succession. Chris Steinitz directs the North Korea program at CNA, focusing on North Korean leadership