Using the Ground Forces Casualty Forecasting System (FORECAS) to Project Casualty Sustainment.

Abstract

The FORECAS planning tool was designed to assist medical requirements specialists in determining the resource needs of specific ground combat operations. The FORECAS tool provides projections of wounded-in- action, killed-in-action, and diseaselnonbanle injury incidence for infantry, support, and service support troops under various combat conditions. FORECAS was constructed in two phases: development of a simulation tool that reflects the statistical trends observed in previous combat scenario, and assessment and quantification of the adjustments necessary to enable FORECAS projections to reflect contemporary scenarios. The FORECAS simulations were found to re resent the trends observed in the historical data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 25, 1997
Accession Number
ADA339487

Entities

People

  • Christopher G. Blood
  • Daniel Rotblatt
  • James M. Zouris

Organizations

  • Naval Health Research Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Casualties
  • Climate Change
  • Combat Operations
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Cross Correlation
  • Data Sets
  • Delphi Method
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Distribution Functions
  • Goodness Of Fit Tests
  • Infantry
  • Military Operations
  • Simulations
  • Situational Awareness
  • Warfare
  • Wounds And Injuries

Readers

  • Climatology
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.