Strategy and joint force
The Strategy and Joint Force branch of Joint and Operations Analysis Division provides timely analytical advice and application of the most appropriate analysis tools for evidence-based decision-making for the design and delivery of the future force.
The branch applies its knowledge of capability, capability-interdependencies and future military and national security contexts to contribute to the evolution of joint concepts and future force structure.
Extensive collaboration with national and international partners is essential to ensure access to leading edge research in emerging technologies and to ensure best practice methodologies in strategic analysis.
Joint Modelling & Analysis
The Joint Modelling & Analysis group develops and applies advanced high-level decision making and analysis approaches across the strategic centre focussing on the whole-of-portfolio, supporting decisions on prioritisation, integration, strategic risk and balance of investment. This group also includes a significant component on systems science which allows for the understanding, modelling, analysis and managing defence force systems-of-systems.
The group has expertise in:
- Scheduling and portfolio analysis;
- Cost modelling and visualisation;
- Risk;
- Systems sciences;
- Integration and realisation; and
- Prioritisation.
Strategy, Systems & Synthesis
The Strategy, Systems & Synthesis group develops and applies advanced experimentation and simulation approaches in order to aid the analysis, design and integration of the force.
This group develops methods, models and analytical approaches in order to develop whole-of-force effectiveness measures and experimentation with greater rigour and more efficiently.
The group has expertise in:
- Force experimental design;
- Force simulation;
- Experimentation decision tools;
- Force experimentation methods; and
- Analytical scenario descriptions.
Defence Impacts of Emerging Technologies
Our Defence Impacts of Emerging Technologies group undertakes the identification, assessment and contextualisation of future strategic military and technology concepts and environment. The group undertakes futures and strategy analysis to inform plausible future environments and operating concepts, and the implications of emerging and disruptive technologies.
The group has expertise in:
- Futures design approaches;
- Elicitation methods;
- Emerging technologies on-line analysis & visualisation; and
- National security and Defence concepts and operating environment analysis.
Critical Technology Foresight
The Critical Technology Foresight group develops ways for the Australian Government to think strategically about, and respond to, technology threats and opportunities that are critical to the safety, unity and prosperity of Australia. CTF researches analytic methods and tools that identify technologies (e.g. dual-use or sensitive technologies), build a rich understanding about technologies (e.g. relationships among technologies, social cohesion, economics), and communicate implications (e.g. building narratives that are mapped to whole-of-Government strategic decision making).
The group has expertise in:
- Foresight analytics and tools
- Socio-technical analysis
- National security emerging technologies
