Planning for Future Naval Forces and Their Ownership Costs
Abstract
Naval policy planning requires viewing the entire spectrum of annual resource allocation, over a long period. Emerging research into the trade offs between force asset levels and fund flows to support those assets is described. The method underlying the results is a feedback simulation incorporating ship and aircraft assets and their operating, maintenance, and manpower characteristics, as well as fleet ownership policies, production factors, and relative price movements. The sensitivity of force levels and their funding requirements to changes in annual budgets, in fleet characteristics, in force mix, in relative prices changes, and in production rates, is explored. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 31, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA109367
Entities
People
- Rolf Clark
Organizations
- George Washington University