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'''''Concept Developmentdevelopment &and Experimentationexperimentation (CD&E)''''' is the application of the structure and methods of experimental science to the challenge of developing future military capability.
 
CD&E is a forward looking process for developing and evaluating new concepts, before committing extensive resources. CDE is a process to identify the best solution not only from a technical perspective, but also for possible solutions for challenges involving doctrine, organization, training, and material to achieve significant advances in future operations. CD&E is a way of thinking your way through the future before spending money.
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The potential impacts on interoperability and increased capabilities by emerging concepts must be captured by some process and exploited.
 
Concept development gives broad and sometimes ill-defined ideas a chance to be examined by groups of experts in a logical process. These ideas can come from different sources: e.g. Ministry of Defense, industry, servicemen organizations or partners. They can be generated by staff processes, operational experience, formal analytical work, or published proposals. There need be no boundaries on the types of ideas that enter the concept development process, although some simpler ones that modify techniques or procedures might be ‘fast-tracked’ into practice because they are intuitively sound. Typically, promising ideas with a broader scope are explored and refined through workshops and larger seminars to the point where more mature concepts are formed. These concepts are further debated in committees or working groups and, if accepted, are submitted to the experimental process.
Concept development gives broad and sometimes ill-defined ideas a chance to be
examined by groups of experts in a logical process. These ideas can come from different sources: e.g. Ministry of Defense, industry, servicemen organizations or partners.
They can be generated by staff processes, operational experience, formal
analytical work, or published proposals. There need be no
boundaries on the types of ideas that enter the concept development process, although
some simpler ones that modify techniques or procedures might be ‘fast-tracked’ into
practice because they are intuitively
sound. Typically, promising ideas with a
broader scope are explored and refined
through workshops and larger seminars
to the point where more mature concepts
are formed. These concepts are further
debated in committees or working
groups and, if accepted, are submitted to
the experimental process.
 
== Kinds of Experimentsexperiments ==
 
Different kinds of experiments can be conducted:
* Discovery Experimentsexperiments relieve more details of the scrutinized problem.
* Hypothesis experiments validate specific thesis and
* Demonstration experiments provide an insight into the realization of the a concept.
 
Once validated and accepted, concepts are incorporated into military organizations – for example, through doctrine and capability development processes.
through doctrine and capability development processes.
 
== Literature ==