Exploring how hierarchical modeling and simulation can improve organizational resourcing decisions

The resourcing environment facing businesses and governmental agencies is a complex hierarchy of interrelated decisions that span wide-ranging time horizons, where the outputs of one decision become the inputs for the next. For example, strategic resourcing decisions define multiyear, aggregate-level resource availability, which bounds the feasible region of tactical resource decisions. These tactical decisions (typically looking out over a year) disaggregate strategic resourcing decisions into a working level of resources necessary for conducting operations. Tactical decisions are themselves translated into more granular operational resource allocations. The challenge is to maintain the internal consistency of these resourcing decisions. This research describes how hierarchically integrated modeling and simulation (M&S) techniques can assist organizations with their resourcing decisions and ensure consistency across the relevant time horizons. We demonstrate how M&S enables a visualizing of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) employment so that support solutions can be tailored and operational effectiveness of organizational resourcing strategies can be maximized.