Warfighters' Simulation (WARSIM)

The Warfighters' Simulation (WARSIM) trains and provides mission-rehearsal capabilities for Army and Joint commanders and their staffs during war, conflict and peacetime. WARSIM portrays activities associated with post-employment operations such as war termination and post-conflict operations including restoring order, supplementing civilian government, providing humanitarian assistance, redeployment, reconstitution and demobilization. The simulation accounts for the time and space factors associated with large unit movements (division and corps) as well as the differences between heavy and light units. The simulation allows all units, including combat support and combat service support units, to be committed to combat operations in response to threats in a rear area. The WARSIM system uses a software computer-based simulation and associated hardware to support the planning, decision-making and operational execution of unit commanders and their staffs from battalion through theater level as well as the training events in educational institutions. Designed and built using modern computer technology, modern software engineering techniques, and verified and validated algorithms and databases, it will allow units worldwide to train using their organizational real-world command and control equipment.