TY - GEN
T1 - Integrating the Joint Operations Feasibility Tool with JFAST
AU - Belfore, Lee A.
AU - Mazumdar, Saurav
AU - Rizvi, Syed S.
AU - Garcia, Johnny J.
AU - Bitts, Daniel A.
AU - Blancett, Christopher B.
AU - Paredes, Erin
AU - Moulton, David
AU - Quinones, William P.
AU - Jones, Krista
AU - Browning, Jennifer
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The Joint Operation Feasibility Tool (JOFT) is a model of logistics deployment and sustainment feasibility in the context of the effects base approach for Joint operations. JOFT can be used to quickly assess the feasibility of deployment transportation for military forces to an area of operations and sustainment for those forces once they have been transported. JOFT usage primarily involves several planning phases that include capability selection, force selection, transportation feasibility analysis, and sustainment analysis. A key feature of JOFT's design is that all of these steps are iterative, so that if, for example, a selected force cannot be sustained, the user can go back to select a different force and repeat the analysis easily and quickly (within minutes). JOFT was originally implemented using the Gensym G2 platform. The JOFT's utility has been ably demonstrated on the G2 platform. Furthermore, JOFT's utility as a tool to support the effects based approach has been limited because it is not interoperable with other logistics tools such as JFAST. Because of performance and usability limitations, JOFT functionality has been ported on an open platform, Java. The features of the port and the software architecture are outlined here in this paper. In addition, the reimplementation provided the opportunity to add several enhancements including basic mapping and TPFDD handling. The Joint Flow and Analysis System for Transportation (JFAST), is a more detailed force deployment and planning tool. JFAST can perform transportation feasibility analyses from the origin to the theatre of war, course of action analysis and evaluate what-if scenarios. JFAST does not explicitly provide support for the effects based approach. By integrating JOFT with JFAST, effects based force deployment information from JOFT may be used as a precursor for a more detailed and validated study in JFAST. In addition, JOFT can also aggregate force deployment planning information from JFAST to perform a gross force deployment feasibility study and analyze the capability of each force in the plan and the corresponding effect(s).
AB - The Joint Operation Feasibility Tool (JOFT) is a model of logistics deployment and sustainment feasibility in the context of the effects base approach for Joint operations. JOFT can be used to quickly assess the feasibility of deployment transportation for military forces to an area of operations and sustainment for those forces once they have been transported. JOFT usage primarily involves several planning phases that include capability selection, force selection, transportation feasibility analysis, and sustainment analysis. A key feature of JOFT's design is that all of these steps are iterative, so that if, for example, a selected force cannot be sustained, the user can go back to select a different force and repeat the analysis easily and quickly (within minutes). JOFT was originally implemented using the Gensym G2 platform. The JOFT's utility has been ably demonstrated on the G2 platform. Furthermore, JOFT's utility as a tool to support the effects based approach has been limited because it is not interoperable with other logistics tools such as JFAST. Because of performance and usability limitations, JOFT functionality has been ported on an open platform, Java. The features of the port and the software architecture are outlined here in this paper. In addition, the reimplementation provided the opportunity to add several enhancements including basic mapping and TPFDD handling. The Joint Flow and Analysis System for Transportation (JFAST), is a more detailed force deployment and planning tool. JFAST can perform transportation feasibility analyses from the origin to the theatre of war, course of action analysis and evaluate what-if scenarios. JFAST does not explicitly provide support for the effects based approach. By integrating JOFT with JFAST, effects based force deployment information from JOFT may be used as a precursor for a more detailed and validated study in JFAST. In addition, JOFT can also aggregate force deployment planning information from JFAST to perform a gross force deployment feasibility study and analyze the capability of each force in the plan and the corresponding effect(s).
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84867527943
SN - 9781622761425
T3 - Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop 2006
SP - 560
EP - 569
BT - Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop 2006
T2 - Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop 2006
Y2 - 10 September 2006 through 15 September 2006
ER -