Optimal Alignment of Search and Rescue Response Posture with Historical Incident Occurrence

Abstract

The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) maintain a response posture to Search and Rescue (SAR) operations 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Recently, SAR squadrons maintained a 30-minute response posture (RP30) for 40 hours (hrs) a week per resource (aircraft type):0800-1600hrs, Monday to Friday, and a 2-hour response posture (RP2hrs) for remaining hours. This report details the data, modeling and analysis for optimizing CAF SAR RP30 hours. Based on recent data, the report presents optimal RP30 schedules that maximize the alignment of CAFSAR response posture with the occurrence of distress or potential distress incidents.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2014
Accession Number
AD1016960

Entities

People

  • Bohdan L. Kaluzny

Organizations

  • Defence Research and Development Canada

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Birds
  • Classification
  • Coast Guard
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Sets
  • Data Visualization
  • Databases
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Linear Programming
  • National Security
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Search And Rescue
  • Security

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.