Wargaming and Challenges in the Experimentation Domain

Military domain lacks the sufficient funding. It becomes extremely critical investing into the right projects that will deliver the expected outcome in the acquisition phase from the medium and long term perspective. The Concept Development and Experimentation (CD&E) is a powerful approach to reduce the related risk if it is consistently applied. Wargaming is a method that is used in the military to get insight about the examined phenomena when employing the military decision making process. The article deals with the role of wargaming in the CD&E. The second part of the article describes the architecture of wargame, main constructs, phases and critical factors of its design. The last part of the article describes the proposed Case Study of the Computer Assisted Wargaming (CAW) to be used for the complex problem like military capability planning and risk reduction under the specified uncertainty. Uncertainty is reduced by proper Design of Experiment when the CAW plays the crucial role.