MPAMOD: An Optimization Model for Maritime Patrol Aviation Modernization Planning

Abstract

This thesis describes a integer programming model to aid in the development of long-range modernization plans for the Navy's Maritime Patrol Aviation fleet. The model is a production/inventory model implemented in the General Algebraic Modeling Systems(GAMS) and solved with the X-System. Over a user-defined planning horizon at a yearly level of detail, the model determines an optimal schedule for procuring new aircraft, refurnishing the airframes of existing aircraft through the Sustained Readiness Program and the Service Life Extension Program, upgrading avionics, and retiring old aircraft. Constraints enforce minimum inventory levels, mission effectiveness goals by mission area, goals for minimum average life remaining of the force, budget limitations and annual line capacities for producing, refurnishing and upgrading aircraft. A typical model involves 4,800 constraints and 13,000 general integer variables and is solved within 4% of optimality in 7.5 minutes on an Amdahl 5990-500

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA264772

Entities

People

  • Brian A. Osborn

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Avionics
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Fatigue Life
  • Integer Programming
  • Inventory
  • Mathematical Models
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Military Aircraft
  • Navy
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Procurement
  • Uss Kitty Hawk

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  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Operations Research