Measures of Effectiveness for the Information-Age Navy

From the Publisher: This report presents the results of a project sponsored by the Director of Strategy, Plans, and Policy, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, Department of the Army Staff. It reports on project research aimed at developing measures of effectiveness (MOEs) for ground forces in the Information Age. The objective of the project was to help the U.S. Army, in both its strategic planning and its operational research communities, begin to identify new MOEs that can capture the improved effectiveness expected to accrue to ground forces as they exploit Information-Age technologies. * As originally conceived by the sponsor, the purpose of the project was not to produce a full list of MOEs appropriate to the Army in the Information Age-or even the last word on the few we present-but, rather, to provide a firm foundation for their further development, as well as some prototypes. This research was carried out in the Strategy, Doctrine, and Resources Program of RAND Arroyo Center, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the United States Army.