Airborne Tactical Crossload Planner

Abstract

Planning airborne operations for a flight of aircraft to drop heavy equipment and paratroopers on a target dropzone is complicated. This thesis presents the Tactical Crossload Planner (TCP), an optimization-based decision support tool that rapidly devises a tactical crossload (a combination of paratroopers and equipment) to be loaded on multiple, heterogeneous aircraft for delivery in one or two low passes over a target dropzone. The optimization model captures an airborne commanders intent and best reflects priorities for the operation while meeting detailed operational requirements set out in the Airborne SOP.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1053533

Entities

People

  • Simon P. Youngblut

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Airborne
  • Aircrafts
  • Artillery
  • Employment
  • Flight Paths
  • Howitzers
  • Linear Programming
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Paratroopers
  • Personnel Management
  • Standards
  • United States
  • United States Special Operations Command
  • Vehicles
  • War Colleges

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