The Navy has to choose the number of, and designs for, ships in the Combat Logistics Force (CLF), and then plan how to use them to provide logistical support to our Carrier Strike Groups, Expeditionary Strike Groups, and Seabasing platforms engaged in any variety of worldwide conflicts. CLF ships are very expensive to build and equip and our budget is limited we need to make sure the ships we buy and the way we integrate these with our CLF fleet can continue to provide the flexible support our Navy requires. We introduce a decision support tool using a global sea route and resupply base model, and a daily time resolution optimization of CLF ship activities to support any complete, worldwide scenario. Our result is an optimal, face-valid daily operational logistics plan a schedule of evolutions for each available CLF ship. We discover exactly how to use CLF ships to support a notional, but particularly relevant, preemptive combat scenario with follow-on humanitarian assistance missions. Finally, we study how changing CLF ship numbers and missions can enhance operational effectiveness.
Optimizing Global Combat Logistics Force Support for Sea Base Operations
2005
70 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Military Sciences , Marine Engineering , Logistics support , Operational effectiveness , Combat forces , Sea based , Decision support systems , Scenarios , Global , Ships , Optimization , Decision making , Resolution , Theses , Naval operations , Daily occurrence , Replenishment , Mixed integer program , Global sea route , T-ake , T-aoe(X) , Station ship , Underway replenishment , Humanitarian assistance