Redesign of the Joint Planning Exercise (JPLAN).
Abstract
JPLAN is a simulation of the Joint Operation Planning System used by the various commands to develop operation plans. JPLAN allows student teams at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Air War College, and Air Command and Staff College to identify needed combat, combat support, and combat service support forces, build force lists, and simulate deployment of these forces in support of an operation plan. Transportation resources are provided to transport the forces to their destinations. Students must resolve conflicts in transportation availability and set priorities on forces and their destinations to ensure their forces arrive on time. The existing JPLAN exercise is outdated both in terms of hardware and software which runs on hardcopy terminals connected to a large mainframe computer. It is not easily used nor maintained due to the use of a slow, unforgiving user interface, a fixed file management system, and fixed reporting capabilities. This thesis describes the redesign of JPLAN to operate on a microcomputer using state-of-the-art database and program design techniques and a fourth generation application development system.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1987
- Accession Number
- ADA189599
Entities
People
- James R. Jansen
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology