Development and Application of a Decision Aid for Tactical Control of Battlefield Operations: Volume 1. A Conceptual Structure for Decision Support in Tactical Operations Systems

A by-product of future automated tactical systems is a proliferation of data to be organized and analyzed. To help cope with this problem and bring about an efficient man-computer interface, an evaluation of the decision aiding literature was undertaken. Special emphasis was placed on those aids which might be useful in tactical systems and could be implemented in the G3 versions of SIMTOS (i.e., simulated tactical operations system). It was found that more than one decision aid was necessary to impact significantly on an ultimate decision. Therefore, a decision support complex was designed for incorporation into the SIMTOS. The support complex utilized a normative approach and an adaptive approach in regard to estimating the pre-combat tactical situation and in regard to allocating fire resources during combat.