Publisher's Synopsis
As the U.S. Department of Defense transitions from a focus on irregular warfare to great-power competition, several new approaches to fighting conflicts are under consideration to reduce costs and increase effectiveness and robustness. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is investigating a warfighting construct known as Mosaic warfare, after the idea of creating a complex image out of many small, simple pieces. This approach relies on fractionation of capabilities from large multicapability platforms onto multiple smaller ones; the ability to employ heterogenous mixes of capabilities throughout a battlespace; and, finally, the ability to rapidly compose a set of needed capabilities in a time and place to accomplish a mission. This report presents the benefits of fractionation, heterogeneity, and rapidly composable forces, by means of modeling and simulation in the context of servicing targets through a reduced-order, agent-bas
