AEGIS Mission Performance Simulation (AMPS)

This paper describes a simulation of the AEGIS Weapon System called AMPS (AEGIS Mission Performance Simulation). The full text discusses the problems encountered and the solutions chosen in the development of this simulation. It is expected that similar types of problems would appear in simulation development for any large scale system which is simultaneously being developed and the approaches to solutions given here may be equally applicable. Other contents of the complete paper are the genesis and purpose of AMPS, its general features and structure, simulation timing, the AEGIS environment and its simulation, the quantitative description of AEGIS as simulated, the operational description of the simulation, and the simulation outputs.