Accession Number:

ADA616003

Title:

Integrating Operational Energy Implications into System-Level Combat Effects Modeling: Assessing the Combat Effectiveness and Fuel Use of ABCT 2020 and Current ABCT

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA

Personal Author(s):

• Daehner, Endy M.
• Matsumura, John
• Herbert, Thomas J.
• Kurz, Jeremy R.
• Walters, Keith

Report Date:

2015-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

100.0

Abstract:

The RAND National Defense Research Institute assessed the potential impact that fielding the five Army vehicle modernization programs would have on the operational energy requirements of combat, combat support, and combat service support forces. The modernization programs planned at the start of the research were the Ground Combat Vehicle since cancelled, the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle, the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, the Paladin Integrated Management program vehicle, and the Modular Fuel System. The authors developed and applied a methodology that leveraged detailed combat effectiveness models to account for the operational energy needs associated with supporting combat missions. RAND s methodology enables a system-level examination of the battlefield. Using this framework, one can examine both the interplay between the Blue combat force and the Red threat, and the interactions among all the elements on the battlefield, including the support force and the protection force. The team assessed the modernization programs by simulating an MCO scenario with three phases a combat phase, a combat support phase, and a combat service support phase, examining both the operational energy needs within these phases along with the combat effectiveness of the force. The methodology developed by RAND is suitable for a range of analyses that aim to address the systemwide impact of force modernization initiatives to specifically include both logistics and combat effectiveness.

Descriptors:

• *COMBAT EFFECTIVENESS
• *FUEL CONSUMPTION
• *MILITARY MODERNIZATION
• *MILITARY VEHICLES
• ARMOR
• COMBAT FORCES
• COMBAT SUPPORT
• COMBAT VEHICLES
• ENERGY
• FUEL SYSTEMS
• FUELS
• GROUND VEHICLES
• IMPACT
• INTERACTIONS
• LOGISTICS
• METHODOLOGY
• MODELS
• NATIONAL DEFENSE
• PROTECTION
• SCENARIOS
• TEAMS(PERSONNEL)
• VEHICLES
• WARFARE

Subject Categories:

• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics
• Combat Vehicles
• Fuels

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE