Measures of Effectiveness for Marine Vehicles for Coast Guard Law Enforcement Missions.
Abstract
This report describes an analytical model developed to evaluate the measures of effectiveness of marine vehicles in performing law enforcement missions. An extensive input section enables the model to be sensitive to craft characteristics, environmental factors, tactical decisions, and policy decisions as well as changes in vessel traffic. The model computes a number of MOEs including interdiction rate, tonnage seized, and number of smugglers seized. Extensive output is generated by the model including histograms that present the average times devoted to the various phases of a law enforcement mission and histograms that indicate overload. The model output, especially the histograms, indicate areas in which changes can be made that will improve the MOEs. This information enables the model to be used for sensitivity analysis. An example of a completed run is presented to demonstrate how the model is used. Most of the components of the model have been coded into BASIC and are running on an HP-9845 desktop computer. These algorithms were used to calculate the baseline performance for the sample run and also to compute the sensitivity of the MOE to a range of changes in craft characteristics, environment, and tactics. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1983
- Accession Number
- ADA134569
Entities
People
- C. W. Pritchett
- J. M. Arrigan