TEMPO Game Description, undated
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Summary - Data collection sheet on TEMPO. From document: "TEMPO is an interactive simulation designed to illustrate several concepts and principles of military force planning and resource management under the constraints of time, uncertainty, and a limited budget. The program is designed to allow the players to concentrate on the major resource allocation problems facing military force planners. The problems include the selection of alternative weapon systems, the maintenance of a proper balance of offensive and defensive systems, the determination of appropriate aircraft and missile force mixes, the total (life cycle) costs associated with each weapon system, cost effectiveness considerations, and the elements of risk and uncertainty. Teams begin the game with identical forces-in-being, research and development options, and budgets. The budget, which may change each year of the game, can be spent to (1) operate the forces-in-being, (2) acquire additional offensive or defensive forces, (3) buy new weapon system research and development, (4) modify existing weapon systems, (5) secure intelligence· information about the opponent's forces, or (6) to purchase a statistical analysis of current or proposed weapon systems. Each team will be working with four major classifications of weapon systems: Offensive strategic aircraft, offensive strategic missiles, defensive aircraft, and defensive anti-ballistic missiles. Several types of weapon systems are available within the four major classifications. Each system is characterized by its cost and its capability. The system capability or effectiveness, is measured in "utils". The util is a standard measure of effectiveness which has been assigned to each weapon system to simplify game play. Each weapon system is worth a certain number of utilities per unit while it is in operation. Although determining the "effectiveness" of weapon systems is often the most difficult part of military planning, this simplification for game purposes permits each participant to concentrate on the budget allocation problems."
Archival processing title - TEMPO Game Description
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Language - English
Genre/Form - Games
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Preferred citation - TEMPO Game Description, undated, https://n2t.net/ark:/54723/h3kh0f908
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Game Play - Military campaign game
Digital object type - PDF document