Global Assessor: transformational tools for transformational missions

This paper contains a description of the prototype Global Assessor tool being developed by Boeing Phantom Works and Mainstay Software Corporation (Mainstay). The primary purpose of the tool is to support the evaluation of Global Tracking Relay and Control (TRAC) Concept implementations being developed by the Phantom Works Joint Mission Study (JMS). The Joint Mission Study is a Phantom Works Advanced Platform Systems project that began in 2001 to systematically evaluate how to apply high-leverage Department of Defense (DoD) intelligence collection capabilities and blue force tracking technologies in support of evolving to a global air traffic management (ATM) capability for civil (FAA) and military applications. The Global Assessor tool will ultimately be available to the acquisition community to create rigorous, quantitative evaluations of TRAC system implementations to accomplish these transformational missions.