# Force Writers Room
**Entity class:** Defense foresight and scenario program
**Aliases:** FWR
**Organization:** [[wiki/USC Institute for Creative Technologies|USC ICT]]
## Definition
The **Force Writers Room (FWR)** applies television writers'-room methods, multidisciplinary research, design, and visual storytelling to defense foresight and scenario construction. Public ICT material identifies an executive producer and showrunner and documents work on naval, cyber, information-warfare, and AI-conflict futures.
## Relationships
- **executive producer:** [[wiki/Dava Casoni|Dava Casoni]].
- **showrunner:** [[wiki/Ric Arthur|Ric Arthur]].
- **produced:** [[wiki/Sea Strike 2043|Sea Strike 2043]].
- **institutional parent:** [[wiki/USC Institute for Creative Technologies|USC ICT]].
- **methods:** [[wiki/Scenario Planning|Scenario Planning]], [[wiki/Methods-Transfer Pathway|Methods-Transfer Pathway]], and [[wiki/Producer Function|Producer Function]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [USC ICT — Force Writers Room](https://ict.usc.edu/research/projects/force-writers-room/)
- [USC ICT — ICT Turns 25: FWR and VGL](https://ict.usc.edu/news/stories/ict-turns-25-hollywood-the-dod-and-the-ict/)