The Strategic Management System, STRATMAS(R) is a method and software development project. It provides an strategical modeling environment with which a user may describe a failing state themes. For each them Political, Governance, Economic, Social, Quality of Life and environment 25 some indicators is defined. This builds a theater to game with. During a effect based approach operational procedure a distributed staff may plan with Cupol(TM)software. This OPLAN.xml injected in the theater fires the simulation of to continuously display our indicators. Desired End-State, effects, actions/activities are reached with the instructions sets political, civil, economical and military organizations develop in conjunctive planning. By gaming the theater with different actors contribution the failing state can be re-stabalized and meet citizens expectations. This has been tested for three different theaters; Sweden, Afghanistan, and Iraq. In the theater War between actors, Peace Enforcement Operations, Peace Keeping Operations, Peace Building Operations, Humanitarian Disasters, Humanitarian Releif's and Non-combatant Evacuation (NEO)operations has has been used. The Cupol(TM) developed OPLAN.xml brought stability back to the instable theater. Cupol(TM) and STRATMAS(R) enables to model the theater, scenario and plan. STRATMAS(R) simulates the theater and displaying its state. With STRATMAS(R) staffs may optimized and game with other opponents in the theater.
STRATMAS(R) development has been supported jointly by the Swedish National Defence College, Stockholm, and the United States Joint Staff (J8), The Pentagon, Washington D.C. U.S.A. But is now solely supported by Swedish Armed Forces.
STRATMAS(R) is hosted in the Aquarium, Mimer Well at the Swedish National Defence College (SNDC). It is a client-server based software product and can be reached from any client in this building connected to the internal LAN at SNDC. It is as well installed in Swedish Armed Forces Experimentation laboratory at Enköping and their Mimers Well.
STRATMAS(R) works in conjunction with a staff support tool Cupol(TM). This two different systems are are well co working together. The staff support tool Cupol(TM) guides a large distributed staff through the Effect Based Approach Operational procedure steps and when a user have defined a order this is sent to STRATMAS(R) for simulation, optimazation and gaming.
Exploratory exercises have been conducted 2003, 2004, 2006. Giving surprising and good results so far. Extensive experimentation with Mimers Well as such shows an significant increase of staff productivity. Some test has indicated leverage to a STRATMAS(R) stereoscopic client for future use to increase assessment and planning purposes.
Present studies focus is to elaborate High Level Architecture, HLA, with a Run-Time Infrastructure, RTI, standardized software library. This enables data exchange between different and other scoped models as well as multiple country simulations.
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