Battle Labs: Tools and Scope

Abstract

The Battle Lab is a tool for the rapid insertion of new technology into weapons systems and for the early evaluation of potential military components and experimental systems. It can yield cost savings to project managers and system users. It is multi-faceted, meeting such diverse requirements of the acquisition process as the engineering test beds used by the project manager and the simulations used by commanders, planners, and others for war gaming. This paper describes the desired integration of battle labs with test beds, and how test beds produce the following: (1) the required fidelity of input for Battle Lab demonstrations, and, (2) experiments with evolving technological advancements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA487959

Entities

People

  • Julian Cothran

Organizations

  • United States Army Aviation and Missile Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Defense
  • Battlefields
  • Commerce
  • Engineering
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Forward Areas
  • Military Operations
  • Product Prototyping
  • Prototypes
  • Reliability
  • Systems Engineering
  • Systems Management
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Beds
  • Virtual Prototyping
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Software Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design