Force Tailoring Tools.

The Force Tailoring Tools are a tetrad of computer programs to assist both commanders and operations research analysts in designing force packages. The tetrad is composed of Force-PLUS Force Package Logic Utility System, SCRAP Sufficiency Criteria for Realignment Adjustment Processor, EFFORT Early Entry Force Tailoring Tool, and THOR The Task Organizer. These tailoring tools offer a marked departure from the traditional methods of designing force packages. Force-PLUS and SCRAP are used to analyze constructive simulation results. EFFORTs primary purpose is to give military planners and analysts at the strategic and operational level the ability to rapidly develop a tailored force package against a given threat and location. THORs primary purpose is to give military planners and analysts at the operational and tactical level the ability to rapidly task-organize a force to accomplish its missions. The Force Tailoring Tools have been used in the Early Entry Force Analysis, Mobile Strike Force 95 Organizational and Operational Analysis, Battle Command Elective in the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and Warfighting Lens Analysis 98-12 Force Package Analysis.