Transportation Modeling of Remote Radar Sites and Support Depots.

Abstract

The North Warning System (NWS), a joint program of the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), is responsible for the maintenance of 47 remote radar sites across northern Canada. NWS's current airlift operations, which support the radar maintenance activities, consist of both helicopters and fixed wing aircraft positioned at five support depots. This thesis considers whether a reconfiguration of these support depots and the assignment of radar sites to them can result in either an airlift or total cost savings for NWS. Mixed integer linear programming models were formulated to address the questions surrounding a reconfiguration of the NWS which might gain airlift cost savings. Several operational scenarios were considered. The analysis identifies that cost savings may be realized through a number of possible actions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA328309

Entities

People

  • Sonia E. Leach

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Airlift Operations
  • Computer Programming
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Flow Network
  • Helicopters
  • Integer Programming
  • Linear Programming
  • Maintenance
  • Mathematical Models
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Operations Research
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Transport Aircraft
  • Transportation

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.