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Crusader Battle Lab Warfighting Experiment (BLWE) 1: Assessing Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) for Crusader Units Within a Synthetic Environment
Crusader Battle Lab Warfighting Experiment 1 Assessing Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Crusader Units Within a Synthetic Environment - BLWE - TTPs Author:Linda G. Pierce, Larry Peterson, William A. Ross This is a ARMY RESEARCH LAB FORT SILL OK HUMAN RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING DIR report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A1601... more »43. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: The U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the Depth and Simultaneous Attack Battle Lab have performed the first Battle Lab Warfighting Experiment that evaluated operational concepts for the Crusader system. The experiment was conducted during June and July of 1996 in the Janus Battle Simulation Center at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. The research addressed critical operation issues focused on the employment of the Crusader system on the 21st century digitized battlefield. Command and control, and ammunition logistics and resupply systems used by a direct support field artillery battalion when employing the simulated Crusader system were evaluated to identity innovative tactics, techniques, and procedures that could be introduced in conjunction with the fielding of the Crusader system. This research was conducted using a synthetic battlefield environment that placed field artillerymen into distributed interactive simulation technologies where they used actual tactical data processing equipment to perform fire support functions. There were four major outcomes of this research: (1) A preliminary set of tactics, techniques, and procedures that addressed command and control functions, situation awareness, fire order consistency, and sustainment was identified. This information will be evaluated further by the system developer and field artillery community and will be considered for additional testing during later experiments or closed loop studies.« less