Fish John R. ATACM: ACDA Tactical Air Campaign Model

Ketron, Inc. 1975. — 161 p.ATACM is a computer model designed and built for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for use in analyzing the impact of various force mixes upon a tactical airwar in Europe between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces. ATACM models an air campaign as a zero-sum staged game and employs dynamic programming to solve this game for approximate, optimal MAXMIN/MINMAX aircraft allocation strategies for the opposing sides at each stage of the campaign. The model permits multiple aircraft types with user-assigned missions, numerical and fractional reinforcements as a function of stage, and user selection of the objective function used to generate the optimal strategies.
Descriptions of the problem formulation and the engagement and optimization methodologies used to solve it are presented along with a user's guide and CDC 6600 FORTRAN listings.Problem formulation
Opposing forces and missions
Strategies
Objective functions
Assessment methodology
Types of engagements
Engagement cycles
Attrition relationships
Optimization methodology
Maxmin/minmax strategies and payoffs
Dynamic programming solutionAppendix a - atacm user's guide
Appendix b - programming documentation