THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARMY MOLISIARTS UNITED STATES ARMY
Headquarters
Department of the Army
Washington, DC
16 May 2025

*Army Regulation 5–11

Effective 16 June 2025

Management

Management of Army Modeling and Simulation

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

JAMES C. MCCONVILLE

General, United States Army

Chief of Staff

Official:

MARK F. AVERILL

Administrative Assistant

to the Secretary of the Army

History. This publication is a major revision. The portions affected by this major revision are listed in the summary of change.

Authorities. This authorities for this regulation are DoDI 5000.97, DoDI 5000.61, and DoDI 5000.70.

Applicability. This regulation applies to the Regular Army, the Army National Guard/Army National Guard of the United States, and the U.S. Army Reserve, unless otherwise stated. During mobilization, the proponent may modify chapters and policies contained in this regulation.

Proponent and exception authority. The proponent of this regulation is the Deputy Chief of Staff, G–8. The proponent has the authority to approve exceptions or waivers to this regulation that are consistent with controlling law and regulations. The proponent may delegate this approval authority, in writing, to a division chief within the proponent agency or its direct reporting unit or field operating agency, in the rank of colonel or the civilian equivalent. Activities may request a waiver to this regulation by providing a justification that includes a full analysis of the expected benefits and must include a formal review by the activity's senior legal officer. All waiver requests will be endorsed by the commander or senior leader of the requesting activity and forwarded through their higher headquarters to the policy proponent. Refer to AR 25–30 for specific requirements.

Army internal control process. This regulation contains internal control provisions in accordance with AR 11–2 and identifies key internal controls that must be evaluated (see appendix B).

Suggested improvements. Users are invited to send comments and suggested improvements on DA FormDA FormDepartment of the Army form 2028 (Recommended Changes to Publications and Blank Forms) directly to the Deputy Chief of Staff, G–8 (CSCA–SR), 700 Army Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310–0700, usarmy.belvoir.hqda-dcs-g-8.mbx.amso-sr-div@army.mil.

Committee management approval. AR 15–39 requires the proponent to justify establishing/continuing committee(s), coordinate draft publications, and coordinate changes in committee status with the U.S. Army Special Programs Directorate at email usarmy.pentagon.hqda-hsa.mbx.committee-management@army.mil. Further, if it is determined that an established “group” identified within this regulation later takes on the characteristics of a committee as found in AR 15–39, then the proponent will follow all AR 15–39 requirements for establishing and continuing the group as a committee.

Distribution. This regulation is available in electronic media only and is intended for the Regular Army, the Army National Guard/Army National Guard of the United States, and the U.S. Army Reserve.

*This regulation supersedes AR 5–11, dated 30 May 2014.

AR 5–11 • 9 April 2025

UNCLASSIFIED

Accreditation The official certification that a model, simulation, or federation of models and simulations and associated data is acceptable for use for a specific purpose (see DoDI 5000.61).

Application A specific, individual project session that requires or uses a model or simulation to achieve its purpose.

Army community An Army community is a designated Army FA enabled by M&S. It is a collaborative grouping of Army functional activities, with common or related M&S interests. The current established functional communi- ties include Acquisition, Analysis, Experimentation, Intelligence, Test and Evaluation, and Training.

Configuration management A discipline applying technical and administrative direction and surveillance to: (1) identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a configuration item, (2) control changes to those character- istics, and (3) record and report changes to processing and implementation status (see DoDI 5000.97).

Department of Defense Discovery Metadata Specification The DDMS defines discovery metadata elements for resources posted to M&S community and organiza- tional shared spaces. With the express purpose of supporting the visibility goal of the DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy, the DDMS specifies a set of information fields that are to be used to describe any data or service asset, for example resource, that is to be made discoverable to the enterprise, and serves as a reference for developers, architects, and engineers by laying a foundation for Discovery Services.

Federated The ability to search across multiple archives, data collections, or multiple content aggregator services (see DoDI 5000.70, Change 3).

Government off-the-shelf The practice of first use and reuse of GOTS, non-proprietary M&S assets. GOTS First includes govern- ment-sponsored development of M&S assets. Army commands and organizations may develop new gov- ernment-owned or use proprietary M&S assets only when task or mission requirements dictate this course of action is appropriate.

Information exchange program annex An annex to an IEP agreement that provides details pertinent to the exchange of modeling or simulation information in a specific area or field of interest.

Information technology Any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment that is used in the automatic acqui- sition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmis- sion, or reception of data or information by the executive agency. Includes computers, ancillary equip- ment, software, firmware, and similar procedures, services (including support services), and related re- sources.

Interoperability The ability of systems, units, or forces to provide data, information, materiel, and services to, and accept the same from, other systems, units, or forces, and to use the data, information, materiel, and services exchanged to enable them to operate effectively together. IT interoperability includes both the technical exchange of information and the end-to-end operational effectiveness of that exchange of information as required for mission accomplishment in its operational environment including appropriate cybersecurity aspects. Interoperability is more than just information exchange. It includes systems, processes, proce- dures, organizations, and missions in appropriately stressed operational environments.

Life Cycle Management framework An Army construct for the management of Army M&S.

Low overhead driver capability An M&S resource supporting commanders and staff to simulate command and control systems requiring minimal preparation time and external resources.

Model A physical, mathematical, or otherwise logical representation of a system, entity, phenomenon, or pro- cess.

Modeling A set of rule-based graphical or text expressions used to communicate the form, attributes, and functions of an object, process, phenomenon, or system.

Reference version The most recent version of a model or simulation released for community use by, and under CM of, the model or simulation user group executive committee. (Available at de-bok.org/glossary).

Reuse The practice of using again, in whole or part, existing M&S tools, data, or services.

Simulation A method for implementing a model over time. Simulation may include live, virtual, or constructive ele- ments as well as supporting frameworks and environments (See DoDI 5000.61).

Validation The process of determining the degree to which a model, simulation, or distributed simulation, and asso- ciated data are an accurate representation of the real world from the perspective of the specific intended use. Validation across the M&S life cycle entails application of relevant referent data to refine M&S accu- racy (See DoDI 5000.61).

Verification The process of determining that a model, simulation, or distributed simulation, and associated data accu- rately represents the developer’s conceptual description and specifications (See DoDI 5000.61).