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  • Exercising Armageddon

    What new models for nuclear-focused exercises, wargames, and simulations, along with the necessary organizational culture changes, can enable the nuclear enterprise to effectively modernize its doctrine for future challenges while still maintaining today's operational deterrent readiness?

  • Impacts of Temperature on Mobility Aircraft Performance in the PACAF Region

    How can a decision-making tool or vulnerability assessment framework be developed using climate projection data to assess how temperature will degrade aircraft performance and impact the projection of combat power, considering effects on operational planning, logistics, and strategic basing?

  • Data Convergence/Analytics

    How can data tools drive analytical collaboration at the tactical level, and create white space for decision makers to maintain a decision advantage across the conflict continuum? (480 ISRW)

  • Intelligence in Strategic Competition

    How should the SOF intelligence enterprise adapt its practitioners and culture to meet the unique intelligence challenges of strategic competition, moving beyond its post-9/11 mindset to cultivate the strategic foresight and counterintelligence focus required in this new era?

  • Assessing Civilian Vulnerabilities in Conflict

    How should SOF prepare to operate in conflicts where adversaries weaponize civilian resources like food and energy, requiring strategies to protect infrastructure, mitigate the use of refugees as weapons, and manage its own logistical footprint to avoid further draining local resources?

  • Managing Risk Over Time

    What decision-making frameworks, conceptual models, or tools can be developed to help senior leaders balance the trade-offs between near-term activities and long-term investments required to effectively counter adversary strategies?

  • Logistics Under Threat

    How can the DoD develop novel logistical approaches, advanced tools, and resilient policies, potentially including a Manufacturing Security Program, to ensure the mobilization, surge, and sustainment of the Joint Force during large-scale, contested combat operations?

  • Human Resources Data Standards

    Can full-time distance learning be an effective training medium for experienced and proficient Cryptologic Language Analysts to acquire an additional foreign language?

  • Organizational Structure of Space Force

    What are the optimum organizational structures for the US Space Force and US Space Command? (USSF) How can Space Organizational Constructs evolve to facilitate enterprise responsiveness and standardization? (HQ USSF S36RL)