Development of Criteria and Measures of Effectiveness for U. S. Army Tactical Communication Systems

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop a workable and valid method for measuring the effectiveness of the broad spectrum of U.S. Army tactical communication systems and equipments. To this end, an evaluation concept was formulated which provided an integrated system effectiveness model capable of providing a single explicit measure of system effectiveness for proposed tactical communication systems. The effort performed was divided into four parts: (1) the development of a comprehensive list of performance factors and effectiveness criteria which serve as input data to the model; (2) the development of matrices to relate military operations in the tactical environment and communication requirements; (3) to formulate analytic relationships between performance factors, criteria, and measures of effectiveness; and (4) to develop the system effectiveness model. The operation of the model is demonstrated by means of a sample problem.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0881145

Entities

People

  • Benjamin Blom
  • George D. Weinstock
  • Marvin Douglas

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bandwidth
  • Communication Channels
  • Communication Systems
  • Cost Analysis
  • Detection
  • Equations
  • Integrated Systems
  • Measures Of Effectiveness
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • Operational Readiness
  • Probability
  • Tactical Communications
  • Tactical Networks
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Time Intervals
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.