Defining and estimating value to a mission

Abstract

Selection of assignments for a constrained inventory of assets and associated services requires comparable measures of their value to the potential recipients, and any associated costs. The dissemination of information or intelligence products over bandwidth limited and security constrained channels similarly requires consideration of the associated values and costs. Similar reasoning is applicable to the selection of variant effects and methods. We present an approach to value definition and prediction in the mission performance characteristics resulting from variant deployments.