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b. Make M&S capability and information readily available and apply the benefits and knowledge
derived from their use throughout the Coast Guard.
c. Invest in cost effective M&S technology that has measurable benefits, provides timely insights,
and builds on or leverages best practices of DHS, DoD, academic, or commercial entities.
7. POLICY.
a. General.
(1) Coast Guard M&S activities encompass a wide range of functional disciplines including
research and development, test and evaluation, education and training, operations, logistics,
acquisition, assessment, doctrine development, experimentation and discovery. This
Instruction supplements the existing regulations in those areas.
(2) The Coast Guard will coordinate M&S efforts. Where feasible and beneficial, a lead
organization will be assigned to develop and/or maintain M&S capability that provides
general support across the Coast Guard or DHS, such as web based document catalogs,
simulation trainers, or technical support groups.
b. Life-cycle Management. Coast Guar d M&S requires life-cycle management that addresses
program management (cost, schedule, and performance), configuration management, ver ification,
validation and accreditation, data management, usability, and documentation. The extent and
formality of this management is proportional to the M&S project risks (cost, complexity,
lifetime, number of users, etc.) and the risks associated with the intended use. When these risks
are high, a written life-cycle management plan is a recommended method to plan the M&S
related activities to manage these risks. When M&S use is required beyond the developer's
needs, the continuing users assume life-cycle management responsibility during their period of
use. Reference (g) contains other life-cycle management requirements for M&S executing within
the C4&IT infrastructure.
c. Interoperability. Interoperability is the ability of a model or simulation to pro vide services to and
accept services from other models and simulations, and to use the services so exchanged to
enable them to operate effectively together. All M&S applications designated for DoD or DHS
use must comply with that department's interoperability policies and standards.
d. M&S Repository. A consolidated and searchable relational database of all Coast Guard M&S
shall be established and maintained in a centralized location. For each M&S in the repository,
sufficient documentation for categorization is required.
e. Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A). The credibility of M&S results from the
conscientious application of the verification and validation (V&V) process. The formal process
of accreditation establishes the official approval of the M&S as adequate for a particular use.
These two processes combined are VV&A. M&S meeting the requirements in reference (h)
require formal accreditation in accordance with that instruction. For those M&S not designated
for formal accreditation, the M&S Program Manager shall take reasonable steps to ensure those
M&S are verified and validated so that modeling assumptions are accurate and documented,
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