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Modeling Risk as a System—How FORM Connects the Dots for Better Decision-Making

Modeling Risk as a System—How FORM Connects the Dots for Better Decision-Making

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Look at almost any risk dashboard in a major program today. What do you see? A list of individual risks, each tagged by likelihood and consequence. Maybe a traffic-light matrix with red, yellow, and green squares. If it’s a Department of Defense program, chances are it follows the Risk, Issue, and Opportunity (RIO) Guide. And if it follows the RIO Guide, those risks are most likely categorized into one of three buckets: cost, schedule, or performance.

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Global Reflections: Insights from the Inaugural Wargaming Conference in Poland

Global Reflections: Insights from the Inaugural Wargaming Conference in Poland

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On October 14-15, 2025, I was privileged to attend the inaugural conference on “Wargaming as an Analytical and Training Tool in Military and Civilian Environment,” held at the General Tadeusz Kościuszko Military University of Land Forces (AWL) in Wrocław, Poland. In some ways, the genesis of the conference itself, along with my attendance, was the result of one of the fun quirks of the professional wargaming community: if you meet one member of the community, you’re only one or two degrees removed from knowing all of them.

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SPA FOCUS Blog email thumbnail Space Isn’t the Final Frontier—It’s the Front Line

Space Isn’t the Final Frontier—It’s the Front Line

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Henry Heren, a senior instructor on the Mission Operations Directorate Enterprise Training (MODET) team at Systems Planning & Analysis, recently authored “Space Isn’t a Sanctuary—It’s a Battlefield. Time to Act Like It.” His article appears in Spacepower Magazine, a publication by the Space Force Association, an independent nonprofit dedicated to advocating for and supporting the U.S. Space Force.

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