Research Methods for Advanced Warfighting Experiments

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Advanced Warfighting Experiments (AWEs) typify the Army's emerging need for more pragmatic and responsive research methods to address the changing climate of military research and improve future force capability. Formative force improvement enables or mediates the summative objective--a more capable force. To help achieve the primary objective, this report recommends the AWEs adapt formative evaluation methods that focus on exploration, explanation, and improvement. This report identifies a set of key fundamental and formative method issues for the AWEs and provides corresponding method recommendations for more reliable and useful AWE findings. The report's method recommendations embed a mechanism of expanded AWE evaluation teams that implement lessons learned into "living products" for Army-wide Force XXI efforts.

Genre: Business & Economics / Management (fancy, right?)