RAPAPORT (Resilience Assessment Process and Portfolio Option Reporting Tool): Background and Method

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Resilient Partnerships for U.S. Military Satellite Communication Missions: Designing a Method to Assess the Impact of Partnerships on Resilience

“…This is not to imply that allied or commercial partners do not have doctrine or policy but only that the USSF has no influence over a third party's doctrine and policy. 43 In the prior work that this analysis was inspired by (Dreyer et al, 2016), the authors developed a representation of the U.S. military space community as an arrangement of DOTmLPF-P nodes and used that network to reason about how U.S. investments in non-materiel means might impact resilience of U.S. space systems. At the time that work was performed (2015-2016), network analysis was quite immature.…”

“…Therefore, although we adopt the overall modeling approach from that work, we use standard network metrics to assess the resilience of the network. Furthermore, the goal of Dreyer et al (2016) was to identify how portfolio investments impact resilience, but our goal is to generate insights into how the independent qualitative factors we found impact partnership dynamics and, thus, mission resilience.…”

Priority Challenges for Social and Behavioral Research and Its Modeling

“…Some applications have been attempted in more social-behavioral settings, such as research by RAND and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on trader be hav iors in the security industry (Dreyer et al, 2016), and in the analy sis of data from massively multiplayer online games (Jima and Lakkaraju, 2014). Other applications of agentbased modeling in electric-power networks are connecting phenomena at diff er ent scales, something of considerable interest to economists as well as regulators (Tesfatsion, 2018).…”