Enhancing Wargaming Fidelity with Network Digital Twins
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Human decision-making fundamentally relies upon communications and networks to contain, extract, and disseminate time-sensitive, mission-relevant information to win decisively against opposing forces, particularly when engaged in asymmetrical combat. Future conflicts will involve attempts to disrupt information systems that are critical for communication and for assured operation of highly sophisticated weapons systems. Disruption is already a capability of potential adversary forces and will spread to secondary threats allied to them. This creates an urgent need for wargames to incorporate real-world cyber, communications and networking effects to support development of effective operating concepts, capabilities and plans. The complexity of a multi-domain, combined cyber and kinetic battlefield requires incorporation of high fidelity, physics based Network Digital Twins into future wargaming environments to adequately account for potential impacts resulting from degraded network operations and/or cyber vulnerabilities on overall mission outcomes.