Human Factors in Field Experimentation Design and Analysis of Analytical Suppression Model

Abstract

The primary objective of this study was to provide a contribution to the phenomenon 'Suppression' as an aspect within the military environment. Analytical models explaining these aspects were developed in order to identify the influences to suppression. Techniques are examined for including the suppressive effects of weapon systems in Lanchester type combat models, which may be useful in wargame evaluations of military judgements, and in force level planning. The study also provides techniques to analyze and fit experimental data to the analytical models. The data to verify the models were obtained from related experiments performed by Combat Development Experimentation Command (CDEC), Fort Ord, California. The result for the modelling approach to suppression indicates source dependences on quantitative as well as on qualitative features. The functions are left quite general, although some functional forms are derived and discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA061417

Entities

People

  • Karl-heinz Pietsch
  • Michael Peter Mueller

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ammunition
  • Artillery
  • Artillery Units
  • Aspect Angle
  • California
  • Computational Science
  • Data Analysis
  • Differential Equations
  • Environment
  • Equations
  • Experimental Data
  • Fire Suppression
  • Insensitive Explosives
  • Mathematical Models
  • Random Variables
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

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  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
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