Optimizing Strategic Sealift.

Abstract

Strategic sealift is critical for the United States to be able to project military power worldwide. During the 1990 Persian Gulf War, over 95% of all military equipment arrived in theater via sealift. The importance and difficulty of sealift planning has motivated the development of a number of decision aids. These aids, relying heretofore on a combination of heuristics and simulation, help determine for a given sealift mission the overall gross transportation feasibility. The key to this transportation feasibility is satisfying desired force closure the time units arrive in the theater of operations. This thesis introduces optimization models to help plan ship schedules that deliver units as close as possible to their required arrival times. The prototypic models are demonstrated on a dual major regional conflict, obtaining near optimal solutions in less than two hours. (MM)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA304836

Entities

People

  • Gust W. Pagonis

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Deep Water
  • Deployment
  • Flight Crews
  • Governments
  • Gulfs
  • Logistics
  • Military Equipment
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Persian Gulf
  • Persian Gulf War
  • Simulations
  • Transportation
  • United States
  • United States Transportation Command
  • War

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design