A Methodology for Updating the Navy's Logistics Factors File.

Abstract

This thesis develops a methodology for updating the Navy's Logistics Factors File, which has been neglected in recent years and requires updating. This study is limited to Repair Parts (Class IX of the Department of Defense Supply Class Codes) for the following four classes of ships: CVN-68 (Nimitz class) Aircraft Carriers, CG-47 (Ticonderoga class) Guided Missile Cruisers, DD-963 (Spruance class) Destroyers, and FFG-7 (Oliver Hazard Perry class) Guided Missile Frigates. The current Logistics Factors File structure includes a single data entry in pounds per unit per day to describe the sustainment requirements of these units for all of the supply classes and their respective subclasses. For Repair Parts, these values are severely understated when compared to contemporary data. These 'pounds per unit per day' random variables have heavily skewed distributions. These distributions can be fitted with mixtures of standard probability distributions, and it seems wise to recommend that associated variability information be included either directly in the Logistics Factors File, or in a readily available companion source.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA311380

Entities

People

  • Raymond J. Benedict

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Carriers
  • Aircrafts
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Guided Missiles
  • Information Science
  • Logistics
  • Military Equipment
  • Navy
  • Nimitz-Class
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • United States Transportation Command
  • Uss Nimitz
  • Uss Ticonderoga
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.