A Decision Support Simulation to Analyze Scheduling Alternatives for Applicant Processing at Military Entrance Processing Stations (MEPS)

Abstract

Applicant processing at Military Entrance Processing Stations (MEPS) is conducted via a batch arrival process by which all applicants arrive at the beginning of the processing day. Pursuit of alternate processing scenarios has never progressed beyond the pilot stage, possibly because the Command lacks a general decision support model to evaluate the impacts of proposed policies on applicant processing operations. This research creates a discrete event simulation of MEPS applicant processing operations and applies the model to three alternative applicant processing scenarios: split-shift, appointment- based, and express-lane. Results are examined and compared to benchmarks using multiple performance measurements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2022
Accession Number
AD1170703

Entities

People

  • Jonathan M Escamilla

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Batch Processing
  • Coast Guard
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Health Care
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Medical Technicians
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Simulations
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States
  • World Wide Web

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Naval Personnel Management