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

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  • M. A. Geisler

    (The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California)

  • W. A. Steger

    (The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California)

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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.

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  • M. A. Geisler & W. A. Steger, 1961. "Letter to the Editor---The Use of Abstract Manned Simulation to Aid Weapon Planners," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 9(5), pages 747-751, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:9:y:1961:i:5:p:747-751
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.9.5.747
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