Research Summaries

Back Model Validation: Battlespace Terrain Reasoning and Awareness Battle Command (BTRA-BC) Battle Engine (BBE)

Fiscal Year 2010
Division Research & Sponsored Programs
Department Modeling, Virtual Environments & Simuation Institute
Investigator(s) Blais, Curtis L.
Sponsor Army Geospatial Center (Army)
Summary The BTRA-BC Baffle Engine (BBE) is a software tool to assist commanders and staffs to develop and analyze Friendly Courses of Action (FCOAs) in the context of mid-to-high intensity combat operations. It is designed to automate a number of sub-tasks of the Military Decision Making Process (MDMP) that have been previously the exclusive domain of the human planner. Using BBE, commanders and staffs can quickly generate and evaluate an unprecedented number of ECOAs. Through this rapid FCOA generation and evaluation, BBE is intended to increase the speed of tactical decision making without sacrificing any of the quality of those previously manually-developed decisions. To transition the tool to operational use, warfighters need to have confidence in potential courses of action computed by the software. Confidence and credibility are established through measured application of software and combat model validation techniques. The Army Engineer Research and Development Command (ERDC) Topographic Engineering Center (TEC) has requested the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Modeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation (MOVES) Institute to conduct a validation of the BBE.
Keywords Combat Modeling Software Validation
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