POW-ER: Computational Modeling of C2 Organizations and Processes

Through collaboration with colleagues at Stanford University, the Center for Edge Power is proud to announce POW-ER (Projects, Organizations and Work for Edge Research), an environment for computational modeling of C2 organizations and processes. POW-ER enables one to model, simulate and analyze the comparative performance of alternate C2 approaches, including different organization structures, work processes, technologies and personnel, in a virtual environment. This enables the comparative strengths and weaknesses of competing C2 approaches to be identified and analyzed in advance of making decisions to commit or change to any one or another. Hence it can inform the C2 leader and policy maker to an unprecedented degree.

Building upon two decades of research in this area by the Virtual Design Team Research Group at Stanford, POW-ER extends a well-understood and empirically validated computational modeling environment that has been applied effectively in dozens of industrial settings. Now, through research at the Naval Postgraduate School, this POW-ER environment has been adapted for use in the C2 domain. The POW-ER beta release and associated documentation can be downloaded for free, and used for non-commercial, research purposes only, by US and NATO-nation Military and Government employees.

If you would like to learn more about POW-ER and its use to model and analyze C2 approaches, then please see the corresponding papers included in the Work Products area of this website. We welcome opportunities to work with people interested in modeling operational C2 organizations and processes, and will be happy to help establish and coordinate a shared library of C2 models.

To request the software, please email us at cep_info <at> nps.edu.

Download the documentation.