Summary Report for USMA Plowshares Initiative

Abstract

The U.S. Army Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM), through the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO), was funded to transition military modeling and simulation (M&S) and training technology to civilian disaster management planning and decision making. Towards this end, STRICOM initiated the project PLOWSHARES program with the ultimate goal of leveraging existing military models and prototypes to determine applicable predictive model availability and conduct a proof-of-principal demonstration (POP-D) using a candidate M&S. Three organizations were funded to execute this program under the direction of STRICOM. Because of it's experience in using military M&S for training and analysis, the Department of Systems Engineering (DSE), United States Military Academy (USMA), was funded to serve in the lead role for systems development, conduct training, develop after action analysis tools, and develop the terrain and scenario for the POP-D. The University of Central Florida's Institution for Simulation and Training (IST) was responsible to evaluate alternative M&S's for Phase II, serve as the systems coordinator, and document the results of the program. Lastly, the Training and Simulation Technology Consortium (TSTC) served as the commercial advocate and was responsible for developing county and state requirements. In addition, two contractors, nations Inc. and Resource Consultants Inc. (RCI), were hired mainly in computer programming roles. The DSE role was further delineated into five separate areas to include: (1) terrain generation techniques/methodology, (2) scenario generation techniques/methodology, (3) prototype development (4) training, and (5) after action analysis tools. A study of civilian and military faculty within the DSE was formed to conduct research in these areas.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA346251

Entities

People

  • John A. Melendez
  • John V. Farr
  • Paul D. West

Organizations

  • United States Military Academy

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combat Simulations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Disaster Management
  • Disasters
  • Emergency Response
  • Engineering
  • Health Services
  • Lessons Learned
  • Operating Systems
  • Personnel Management
  • Systems Engineering
  • Training
  • Training Management
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy

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