Simulation-Based Assessment of Automated Command, Control, and Communication Capabilities for Armor Crews and Platoons: The Intervehicular Information System.

摘要

The Army is assessing the benefits of including an automated C3 display, the Intervehicular Information System (IVIS), in the upgraded Block II M1 Abrams tank. This simulation-based research compared the performance of 24 tank crews and 6 tank platoons using a prototype IVIS with the performance of 24 tank crews and 6 tank platoons using conventional C3 and navigational tools, including a radio, paper map, protractor, and compass. The research supported including IVIS in future tank upgrades. Armor crews and platoons equipped with IVIS significantly outperformed the crews and platoons using conventional techniques on every composite measure evaluated. IVIS-equipped crews and platoons executed a C3 exercise and offensive and defensive combat missions faster, reported their own location and battlefield events better, and successfully executed more fragmentary orders than crews and platoons equipped with conventional tools. The findings also suggest critical Armor performance, training, and standard operating procedure implications and identify and reflect on IVIS system design and functional requirements.