DAFPD16-10 governs Department of the Air Force modeling and simulation oversight, capabilities, standards, and coordinated activities.
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DAFPD16-10 addresses modeling and simulation across air, space, cyberspace, and the electromagnetic spectrum, including training, analysis, acquisition, and decision-making. It establishes requirements for cybersecurity, interoperability, commonality, reuse, and coordinated investment in modeling and simulation efforts.
Applies to: This publication applies to all civilian employees and uniformed members of the Regular Air Force, the Air Force Reserve, the Air National Guard, the United States Space Force, and those who are contractually obligated to comply with Department of the Air Force publications.
The CMSO will address M&S challenges in air, space, and cyberspace to include the multi-domain interoperation within the electromagnetic spectrum to advance M&S capabilities needed in our current and future force. (paragraph 1)
The DAF will develop M&S capabilities to provide realistic models, tools, data, and simulation environments in air, space, and cyberspace, including electromagnetic spectrum interoperations, to enable acquisition life cycle activities, analysis, training, wargaming, and various other types and levels of decision-making at the system, system-of-systems, multidomain, and cross-domain enterprise levels. (paragraph 2)
The M&S capabilities will incorporate cybersecurity requirements to reflect the security constraints under which the real system must operate. (paragraph 2)
The DAF will coordinate and synchronize M&S efforts to maximize overall investments. (paragraph 2)
The DAF will identify and define M&S best practices and promote standards and protocols, including from industrial and Department of Defense (DoD) sources, to facilitate interoperability and use (and reuse) across DAF organizations. (paragraph 2)