Letter to the Editor---The Use of Abstract Manned Simulation to Aid Weapon Planners

M. A. Geisler and W. A. Steger
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M. A. Geisler: The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California
W. A. Steger: The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California

Operations Research, 1961, vol. 9, issue 5, 747-751

Abstract: Modern weapon systems are a complex amalgam of the end item hardware, the support ground operational and support equipment, spare parts, trained operational and logistical personnel, and a set of operational goals with a management system designed to help attain them. Given a choice of a hardware system to be developed into a weapon system, the weapon system's planners are left with an enormous number of choices between competing alternatives before that hardware system is developed into an operational weapon system. This decision-making process may involve several hundred “milestones,” many opinions, more than six years, and several billion dollars.

Date: 1961
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