Identifying Aircraft and Personnel Needs to Meet On-station Patrol Requirements

Abstract

Determining the required number of aircraft and personnel to maintain a given presence on station is a common and important problem in military contexts. In this paper, the proposed approach consists of finding schedules for multiple aircraft that meet the on-station requirement while minimizing the number of aircraft and crews required. Specifically, after discussing the schedule for a single aircraft, an integer program for the multiple aircraft case is formulated and presented. To capture the effect of unplanned maintenance on the overall number of required aircraft, a parameterized serviceability model is also introduced. As illustrated by a case study, this easy to implement methodology is able to provide quick and insightful results to the decision makers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 17, 2014
Accession Number
AD1016991

Entities

People

  • Bao U. Nguyen
  • Francois-alex Bourque
  • J. C. Ansell
  • Paul L. Massel
  • Ramzi Mirshak

Organizations

  • Defence Research and Development Canada

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Attack Helicopters
  • Case Studies
  • Helicopters
  • Integer Programming
  • Literature Surveys
  • Maintenance
  • National Security
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Sequences

Fields of Study

  • Business

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  • Systems Analysis and Design