Alberts, DS 2014, ‘Agility Quotient (AQ)’, 19th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (ICCRTS), Alexandria, VA, USA, Institute for Defense Analyses. NSD-5174.
Agility, the capability to successfully effect, cope with, and/or exploit changes in circumstances, can be directly observed only when this capability has been manifested. Increasingly agility is seen as an essential system capability and hence a requirement. To satisfy a stated requirement for agility we need to be able to answer two questions. “How can we measure a system’s Agility IQ?” and “What is the requisite amount of Agility that is required?” This paper suggests a way forward and illustrates it, in the context of C2 systems.