Use of Availability Based Sparing in Support of Deploying U.S. Marine Corps Units

Abstract

The U. S. Marine Corps realizes its goal of being ready to fight in any location primarily through the Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). An important component of the MEU's readiness is the availability of critical equipment repair parts when they are needed. We test with three sets of past MEU data an availability based sparing model that builds repair parts blocks and show that the model outperforms the current methodology in every case.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA359729

Entities

People

  • Janet Keech

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Availability
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • End Items
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Personnel
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Science
  • Model Tests
  • Procurement
  • Repair Shops
  • Training
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.