United States Army Training and Doctrine Command Analysis Center The United States Army Training and Doctrine Command Analysis Center ( TRAC ) is an analysis agency of the United States Army . TRAC conducts research on potential military operations worldwide to inform decisions about the most challenging issues facing the Army and the Department of Defense ( DoD ) . TRAC relies upon the intellectual capital of a highly skilled workforce of military and civilian personnel to execute its mission . TRAC conducts operations research ( OR ) on a wide range of military topics , some contemporary but most often set 5 to 15 years in the future . How should Army units be organized ? What new systems should be procured ? How should soldiers and commanders be trained ? What are the costs and benefits of competing options ? What are the potential risks and rewards of a planned military course of action ? TRAC directly supports the mission of the Army ' s Training and Doctrine Command ( TRADOC ) , to develop future concepts and requirements while also serving the decision needs of many military clients . TRAC mission statement . To produce relevant and credible operations analysis to inform decisions . TRAC serves many clients and has many stakeholders , but has only one shareholder : the American Soldier . TRAC organization . TRAC is led by a civilian SES director , subordinate to the Commanding General of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command , and comprises four centers : Each center director is subordinate to the TRAC director . TRAC headquarters has three components : The discipline of OR . The discipline of operations research is built upon the collaboration of interdisciplinary team members who have mutually supporting knowledge , skills and experiences pertinent to the study problem . The TRAC building blocks of military operations analysis are future scenarios ; leading edge models and simulations ; realistic data about systems , forces , and behavior ; and skilled operations analysts . Leading a core team of analysts , a TRAC Study Director may receive support from other TRADOC and Army agencies , and from other government agencies and industry as well . TRAC adheres to the proven principles of scientific inquiry and applies the problem solving model to perform its analysis . The TRAC program . The TRAC program of operations research and analysis is forward - looking and addresses a wide range of military topics . The analysis is conducted within a joint framework of combined arms operations across a full spectrum of missions and environments . TRAC leads TRADOC ' s major studies of new warfighting operations and organization ( O & O ) concepts and requirements . TRAC leads the Army ' s analysis of Advanced Warfighting Experiments ( AWEs ) , and the Army ' s Analysis of Alternatives ( AoA ) . The analysis topics span doctrine , training , leader development , organization , materiel , and soldier support . Scenarios are used by the U . S . Army for education , training and force development . Director , TRAC is the TRADOC executive agent for development of scenarios for use in studies and analysis . TRAC develops scenarios of potential military operations set in the future for use in modeling and analysis . TRAC relies upon input and assistance from many Army and DoD agencies , other Services and the Combatant Commanders to develop and apply a family of scenarios depicting joint operations of corps and divisions , and brigades and battalions . The family of scenarios undergoes continual review and change in anticipation of emerging threats and new operational environments around the world based on intelligence estimates . Tools . Military operations are highly complex processes and typically must be modeled in order to be analyzed . The analytic tools may take the form of : TRAC develops and maintains a class of warfighting M & S referred to as force - on - force , ranging from individual objects ( e . g . , soldier , weapon , terrain feature ) to aggregated objects ( e . g . , battalions ) at corps level . TRAC M & S represent the Army ' s de facto standards for force - on - force M & S and are widely used by military , industry and allies . TRAC is a significant contributor to advanced M & S research and improved modeling methodologies in the military .