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There is a requirement for a Vehicle Data Management strategy(VDMS) by the United States. The troops currently has numerous trackedand wheeled vehicles in its inventory, with technical data on theiroperation and performance available in manuals and reports.Alternatively, there are dissimilar vehicle performance computer models andapplications, which manipulate characteristics of these vehicles foranalytical purposes, but no standard data depot currently exists forcollection and storage of this information. This project has developa means of storing available information about these tracked and wheeledvehicles in a relational database which will allow the user to easilycreate, retrieve, update, and blue-pencil information via a user-interfaceconnected to the database.The purpose of this project was to create a relational databaseof vehicle information and a user interface for accessing the database.The project allows for a user-friendly environment (Microsoft Excel andAccess) t hat is convenient and efficient for storing, retrieving,updating and displaying vehicle information.The overall objective of this project was to create an updateable,computerized database application, the Vehicle Data Management System(VDMS), which provides a composite reference/storage retrieval systemfor current information pertinent to characteristics of standardmilitary tracked and wheeled vehicles. VDMS is intended to minify theindividual need for periodic reference to technical manuals, reports,and large-scale vehicle files containing large amounts of data. Currently,there exist much data in various places, (technical manuals, files,folders, envelopes, etc.) and no easy way to store, retrieve, update,and manipulate it. Using Visual C++ (programming language) and Access(database, the goal of this project was to provide a faster and moreefficient manner to create, retrieve, update, and delete the informationcontained in these vehicle files.VDMS manipulates vehicle data files that are currently beingused as data for vehicle performance models such(prenominal) as the NATO ReferenceMobility Model (NRMM). NRMM is an example of an computerized modeldeveloped in the early 1970s that combines many mobility-relatedtechnologies into one comprehensive package designed to predict thephysically constrained terrain/vehicle interaction of vehicles operatingin on-road and off-road terrain. Since its beginning NRMM has beencontinually updated and expanded as a result of ongoing mobilityresearch and is now in its second release (NRMM II). NRMM provides theNATO members with a standard reference for mobility performanceevaluations. NRMM is integrated into other automated models providingthe mobility predictions for several other tactical, analytical, andwar-gaming models. Currently, the data files are rather large and arenot easily read and the data pertaining to these vehicles are stored intext files. These files are not in a format that is easily understood.Having the d ata in a database allows the user to manipulate and access