A Joint Service Optimization of the Phased Threat Distribution.
Abstract
The decreasing defense budget forces the Department of Defense (DoD) to continually find areas in which to reduce military spending. Traditionally, each service has requested munitions considering itself in isolation. This inevitably leads to excessive munitions acquisition for the DoD as a whole. The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology developed the Capabilities-Based Munitions Requirement (CBMR) process to ensure that the DoD address the munitions acquisition issue from a joint perspective and thus reduce excess. The CBMR process requires each warfighting CinC to produce a phased threat distribution (PTD). The PTD specifies which friendly platform will be assigned to each enemy platform for a given scenario. This provides the services with estimates of the threats they must be prepared to overcome and the munitions they need. The purpose of this thesis is to help develop the PTD in such a way that the threats are assigned appropriately with limited overlap among the services. To achieve this purpose, the thesis develops a goal programming model that attempts to find an optimal allocation based on three objectives: (1) minimize friendly casualties, (2) maximize enemy casualties, and (3) maximize adherence to the guidance delineating a proper division of labor among the services.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA344694
Entities
People
- Brian L. Woddowson
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School