The RAMF-SM Stockpile Sizing Module: Updated Documentation and User's Guide

Abstract

This paper provides updated documentation of the Stockpile Sizing Module (SSM), a mathematical model, with associated computer program, that constitutes a key portion of the Risk Assessment and Mitigation Framework for Strategic Materials (RAMF-SM). Developed by the Institute for Defense Analyses, RAMF-SM has played a key role in the analyses that have supported the Reports to the Congress from the Department of Defense concerning requirements for the National Defense Stockpile of strategic and critical non-fuel materials (S and CMs). The SSM estimates shortfalls of S and CMs that might occur in a national emergency scenario. This paper focuses on training a user to set up runs of the SSM computer program and to interpret its output. Detailed descriptions of the models inputs and outputs are provided, along with discussion of the underlying methodology.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2022
Accession Number
AD1199878

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  • Eleanor L. Schwartz
  • James S. Thomason

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

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  • Energy and Power Technologies

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  • Algorithms
  • Best Practices
  • Computations
  • Computer Programs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Economic Models
  • Geological Surveys
  • Governments
  • Infrastructure
  • Law
  • Logistics
  • Materials
  • Mathematical Models
  • National Security
  • Operations Research
  • Risk Analysis
  • Strategic Materials
  • United States

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  • Computer Science.
  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.