The VISION Assessment System. Class IX Sustainment Planning

Abstract

This report describes the underlying motivation, characteristics, and possible applications of the VISION Assessment System (VAS). VAS is a decision support system designed to improve the ability of Army logisticians to answer the following three questions that are fundamental to Class IX (i.e., spare parts) sustainment planning: (1) Can the logistics system support operational needs and objectives throughout the course of a planned conflict? (2) If not, where and when are problems most likely to emerge, and how serious are they likely to be? and (3) What can be done beforehand to avoid or mitigate those potential problems? VAS recognizes many of the complications presented by such factors as uncertainty and the complexity of the logistics system, and it contains features for dealing with them.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA252534

Entities

People

  • Christopher L. Tasi
  • Morton B. Berman
  • Robert S. Tripp

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Attrition
  • Combat Forces
  • Command And Control
  • Cost Reductions
  • Databases
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Deployment
  • Information Systems
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Management
  • Logistics Planning
  • Maintenance
  • Organizational Structure
  • Test Equipment
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Theoretical Analysis.