Navy Operational Planner: Anti-Submarine Warfare with Time-Dependent Performance

Abstract

The Navy Operational Planner project develops tools that help the Navy optimize operational planning in terms of time, manpower, and resources. Its purpose is to help decision makers use available platforms efficiently to accomplish as many missions as completely as possible over a finite time period. We adapt the anti-submarine warfare (ASW) component of this model by adding time-dependent performance data that reflect ocean or atmospheric conditions that vary over the planning horizon. We develop three test cases with varying degrees of time-dependence in the performance data, and show that taking this new information into account changes the operational plans generated and can lead to better employment of ASW platforms due to the more realistic representation of platform performance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1046789

Entities

People

  • Anthony M. Baldessari

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Antisubmarine Warfare
  • Detection
  • Linear Programming
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Naval Vessels (Combatant)
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Platforms
  • Ships
  • Submarine Warfare
  • Submarines
  • United States
  • United States Naval Academy
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Marine Mammal Biology
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies