Facilities
Warfare Analysis Laboratory
The Warfare Analysis Laboratory (WAL) is a dynamic analysis, modeling, simulation, and gaming forum for policy and strategy leaders, defense operators, systems engineers, threat specialists, and subject-matter experts to interactively analyze new and advanced concepts for defining requirements and meeting future needs. Participants with diverse operational and technical expertise examine and evaluate requirements, model alternatives, develop scenarios, and document the process with an automated reporting system. The WAL features large-screen, interactive computer displays; a broad range of mission area, force, and theater-level models and simulations; a groupware decision support system; and global access to an extensive array of intelligence and operational data sources.
The WAL features:
- 53 electronic seminar support workstations running groupware
- A 50-seat observer gallery
- 14 plasma displays for defense exercises
- 3D scenario modeling and visualization
- 4 large projection screens
- Video teleconferencing
- Extensive information/database access and network capability
- Multi-level security
Collaborative Analysis Center
The APL Collaborative Analysis Center in Crystal City, Virginia, is a dynamic analysis forum for policy and strategy leaders, defense operators, systems engineers, threat specialists, and subject-matter experts to interactively analyze new and advanced concepts, defining new requirements and meeting future needs. Participants with diverse operational and technical expertise examine and evaluate requirements, model alternatives, and develop concepts using facilitated seminars and electronic decision support tools.
