Reinforcements, ammunition limits, and termination of neutralization engagements in ASSESS

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991 · Nuclear Materials Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings; (United States)

OSTI ID:5600727

Paulus, W K ^[1]; Mondragon, J ^[2]

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1. Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
2. Science and Engineering Associates, Inc., Albuquerque, NM (United States)

This paper reports on the ASSESS Neutralization Analysis module (Neutralization) which is part of Analytic system and Software for Evaluation of Safeguards and Security, ASSESS, a vulnerability assessment tool. Neutralization models a fire fight engagement between security inspectors (SIs) and adversaries. The model has been improved to represent more realistically the addition of reinforcements to an engagement, the criteria for declaring an engagement terminated, and the amount of ammunition which security forces can use. SI reinforcements must prevent adversaries from achieving their purpose even if an initial security force has been overcome. The reinforcements must be timely. A variety of reinforcement timeliness cases can be modeled. Reinforcements that are not timely are shown to be ineffective in the calculated results. Engagements may terminate before all combatants on one side are neutralized if they recognize that they are losing. A winner is declared when the number of survivors on one side is reduced to a user specified level. Realistically, the amount of ammunition that can be carried into an engagement is limited. Neutralization now permits the analyst to specify the number of rounds available to the security forces initially and the quantity of resupply that is introduced with reinforcements. These new capabilities all contribute toward more realistic modeling of neutralization engagements.

• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5600727
• Report Number(s): CONF-910774-; CODEN: NUMMB
• Journal Information: Nuclear Materials Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings; (United States), Vol. 20; Conference: 32. Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) annual meeting, New Orleans, LA (United States), 28-31 Jul 1991; ISSN 0362-0034
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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