This proposal proposes to investigate the feasibility of developing a rapid deployment capability for tactical combat models. The capability is necessary to support sampling of alternative simulated tactical deployments (STDS), which is presently not feasible to do on a scale and level of detail required by existing large-scale (theater level or corps level) tactical combat models. Without this capability, the methodological foundation of using present-day tactical combat models as a basis for test and evaluation of weapon systems and equipment centers on the use of a single std, and is extremely weak. The availability of a rapid deployment capability will enable the use of samples of STDS in test and evaluation, and will radically broaden the scope of inference of tactical-combat model-based analyses, and justify their use as a basis for evaluation of the combat effectiveness of military systems and equipment..
