Simulation of Critical Materials Resource Strategies. Volume 1. Introduction through Appendix C.
Abstract
The objective of this study was to examine current plans for assuring certain raw materials are available and to develop an explicit representation that will enable evaluation of interactive strategies. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is charged with the responsibility of determining stockpile requirements for strategic and critical materials in support of national policy. To assist in the decision-making process, FEMA must have the data and capability to simulate various scenarios and acquisition strategies to supplement existing model capabilities. A top-down methodology has been developed which quantitatively relates the importance of the force elements to the critical materials; considers various levels of conflict in the context of military resources and regional importances; evaluate commodity sources; assesses the effects of substitution; and portrays the national purpose of the adversary superpowers. This study concludes that this methodology has the capability to relate commodities, sources, stockpile requirements, military assets and the external environment (military, political and socioeconomic) in a dynamic, interactive evaluation of strategies relative to the strategic and critical material stockpile. The definition of the Joint US/USSR Purpose enables, for the first time, a quantitative evaluation of the interactions of the superpowers. Originator keywords include: Strategic resources.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 13, 1983
- Accession Number
- ADA150258
Entities
People
- D. Somerfeld