The Center for Mission Engineering’s focus on achieving mission readiness via AI-driven tools has earned CME’s Dr. Deri Draper-Amason a high-profile Dept. of War award, in the wake of a recent DoW decision to create a critical Mission Engineering Integration Activity . CME’s strategy is to integrate its digital Decision Readiness tool with Dr. Draper’s Integrated Digital Maturity Pathway (IDMP) tool and User Story Framework, creating a scalable, data-informed, and human-centered platform for complex defense workflow decision-making. Current approaches feature static lifecycle depictions of operational, acquisition, and sustainment factors—especially in joint force contexts and contested environments.
CME will adopt IDMP’s five-level maturity model and User Story framework, enabling organizations to:
- Map mission outcomes to digital maturity across key domains such as workforce, tech data, modeling & simulation, and supply chain
- Translate mission threads into actionable User Stories, allowing stakeholder-driven scenario planning and readiness assessment
- Visualize readiness, risks, and trade-offs through dynamic dashboards and quantitative metrics
- Simulate Courses of Action using decision science, mission assurance logic, and maturity-based thresholds
…. with these outcomes:
- Accelerate time-to-decision through streamlined digital scenario planning
- Improve alignment between operations, acquisition, and sustainment across the Lifecycle
- Enable risk-informed, user-driven transformation of mission planning systems
- Support emerging acquisition reform and DoW digital engineering objectives
By fusing digital engineering with maturity models and operational narratives, CME plans to empower decision-makers with the clarity, agility, and trust needed to execute complex missions with confidence. Its expanded toolbox reinforces ODU’s applied research leadership in mission engineering, performance improvement, and national defense digital transformation.
