AN ANALYSIS PROGRAM TO STUDY THE LIGHTNING OF THE FORCE

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTERIZED ANALYSIS PROGRAM WHICH WILL ANALYZE THE EFFECTS OF INTERCHANGING VARIOUS BATTALION EQUIPMENT/WEAPONS CONFIGURATIONS WOULD BE A USEFUL TOOL FOR THE BATTLE MANAGER, OR THE ENGINEER STUDYING WHERE TO PLACE EFFORT FOR LIGHTENING BATTALION WEIGHT. THE MIDATLANTIC RESEARCH CORPORATION WILL DESIGN A COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM WHEREBY THE USER MAY PERFORM "WHAT IF" ANALYSIS BY INTERCHANGING VARIOUS EQUIPMENT ITEMS AND PARTS. THE PROGRAM RESULTS SHOWING HIM THE EFFECT OF THE CHANGES ON OVERALL BATTALION WEIGHT AND BATTALION PERFORMANCE/LOGISTICS PARAMETERS. SUCH A PROGRAM CONSISTS OF DATA BASES WITH INFORMATION ON MAJOR BATTALION EQUIP-MENT PART PARAMETERS AND OPERATIONAL SCENARIO PARAMETERS. IT ALSO INCLUDES A VARIETY OF ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS WHICH RUN DATA BASE SORTS AND INDEXING ROUTINES, EXTRACT ANY RELEVANT DATA, THEN INTERRELATE AND PERFORM ANALYSIS TO PRODUCE THE REQUIRED RESULTS. THE PROGRAM IS DEVELOPED USING LOTUS 1-2-3 SOFTWARE AND IS HOSTED ON A ZENITH 158 PERSONAL COMPUTER SYSTEM.