DESCRIPTION
ARRM is an integrated, automated planning tool that provides planners (at
installation level, Major Army Commands or Management Regions, and
Headquarters, Department of the Army or HQDA) with the capability to quickly
and easily determine approximate live training throughput capacities and
throughput requirements for selected installations. It will also allow
comprehensive "what-if" analysis of the impact of re-stationing actions on live
training infrastructure. These approximations are also intended to serve as a
baseline for further refinement in Range Training Land Program (RTLP)
Development Plans (RDP's).
OBJECTIVE
The basic purpose of ARRM is to provide an automated capability focused on
existing and future force structure and current live training facilities which
allows HQDA, Management Region, and installation planners, using consistent
data, to:
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analyze facility throughput requirements based on force structure and STRAC
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analyze facility assets and the training throughput capacity these assets
provide
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evaluate impact of proposed stationing actions on availability of live training
facilities
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review current Range Development Plans
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provide information to decision-makers in clear, quantitative terms
BACKGROUND
The real property master planning community has used a tool called the
Headquarters Real Property Planning System or HQRPLANS since October of 1990.
This system calculates facility requirements based on the current force
structure, and compares these requirements to corporate data on facility assets
and projected construction projects. ARRM tracks installation live training
assets such as maneuver land and ranges based on the Active & Inactive
(A&I) Range Inventory conducted for G-3 by the Army Environmental Center.
Force structure is based on the Army Stationing Installation Plan (ASIP) with
additional alignment of Reserve Component (RC) units to alternate weekend
training sites and primary and secondary annual training sites for purposes of
resource allocation. Throughput requirements are calculated based on equipment
information from the TRADOC Documentation System (as available in the Army's
Facility Planning System) and weapons training strategies from the Standards in
Training Commission or STRAC manual. Throughput requirements are also
calculated for over twenty standard type units (such as an Armor Division,
Mechanized Infantry Division, Two-Brigade Heavy Division, and Light Infantry
Division) and for Reserve Component organizations aligned with an installation
for the purpose of allocating training resources. An off-line, manual version
of ARRM has been in use since 1997 by HQDA to estimate installation training
capacity. As a result of use during the stationing analysis for the first two
Interim Brigade Combat Teams (IBCT's), HQDA tasked ATSC to implement ARRM.
SYSTEMS INTERFACE
The ARRM system is available worldwide via the Internet. The user interface
resides on a PC. The system is updated annually with new range and maneuver
land assets from the A&I inventory, force structure from the ASIP (with RC
input of training alignments), and unit range requirements based on new TOE
data.
CURRENT CONFIGURATION
The Army Range Requirements Model utilizes the multi-tier client/server
architecture of HQRPLANS. The ARRM Client provides a Graphical User
Interface (GUI) that allows users to quickly request information. All
ARRM Client communication occurs via the Internet to the ARRM Application
Server using minimal TCP/IP network resources. The middle tier ARRM
Application Server provides queuing, scheduling, and application execution
between ARRM Clients and the backend ARRM Database Server. The ARRM
Database Server running Oracle 8 provides query results, data staging, and data
analysis. The ARRM client/server architecture provides performance and
scalability to ARRM users with reduced network traffic and robust
security. The ARRM Client supports Microsoft Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP.