AADA, the "Affordable Acquisition Decision Aid", is the product of a multi-year joint (with the Anteon Corporation) research project with the US Office of Naval Research, building on technology developed by Prometheus Inc. under contract to the US Naval Undersea Warfare Center and the US Air Force Rome Laboratories.
The AADA tool supports:
• high-level investment decisions among diverse proposed technology investments
• prediction of future asset performance with respect to a diverse range of high-level objectives
• accounting for technological risks, uncertainty in future objectives and threats, and uncertainty in future costs and budgets
The underlying AADA technology is based on:
• incorporating simulation-based operational considerations into a software tool for the acquisition planning process,
• evaluating overall acquisition strategy by considering the cooperation among future assets in achieving high-level objectives, and
• applying genetic algorithms to determining the utility of future assets by performing near-optimal allocation of assets to objectives.
