The United States Navy Chief of Naval Operations Assessment Division (N81) is responsible for planning long-range capital expenditure on ships, submarines and aircraft. This planning is complicated, involves billions of dollars over decades, and determines future Navy capability. Navy force structure analysts have to balance: yearly budgets; requirements, current inventory, and procurement options for ships, submarines, and aircraft; and capacity and workforce levels of shipyards and factories. N81 Navy analysts currently use the Extended Planning Annex/Total Obligated Authority (a spreadsheet that estimates the financial impact of any complete future plan) to assist them with their complex planning. The Capital Investment Planning Aid (CIPA) is a prototypic optimization model, limited in scale, previously developed to demonstrate the benefits of augmenting EPA/TOA with optimization. This thesis introduces Generalizing Procurement Planning for Naval Ships and Aircraft (GENSA), which extends CIPA. GENSA is tested with a 30-year planning horizon with 29 mission areas, 45 ship classes, 39 aircraft types, 13 production facilities, and four categories of money. A current base case and an excursion demonstrate GENSA can be used to address exigent issues optimally.
Optimizing Procurement Planning of Navy Ships and Aircraft
2000
69 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Management Practice , Logistics Military Facilities & Supplies , Naval budgets , Naval planning , Spreadsheet software , Optimization , Naval vessels , Theses , Long range(Time) , Naval aircraft , Military force levels , Naval procurement , Capital investments , Cipa(Capital investment planning aids) , Gensa(Generalizing procurement planning for naval ships and aircraft)