| Article ID: | iaor20021280 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 6 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 5 |
| End Page Number: | 18 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
| Journal: | Mathematics of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Hodgson Thom J., Williams Michael K., Spivey Owen |
The Deployment Analysis Network Tool Extended (DANTE) is an analysis tool for studying large-scale deployment scenarios. DANTE was developed originally to support analysis of strategic mobility concepts in an Army Science Board study, and is used by the Military Traffic Management Command–Transportation Engineering Agency to help evaluate alternatives in the Army redesign. DANTE represents a deployment from bases in the United States, from forward-based locations and from pre-positioned stocks as a time-phased network flow. The objective is to minimize the time to close the deploying force on the staging area. A graphic user interface facilitates the modification of deployment parameters so the impacts of changes on the time to close can be quickly determined.