Improving Aircraft Beddown: Estimates for Conducting Combat Operations
Abstract
To conduct effective combat operations, the Air Force needs to deploy the right mix of aircraft to the right airfield. When too many aircraft are assigned to an airfield, its infrastructure is overwhelmed and aircraft mission effectiveness is degraded. Our current planning capability and our analysis of current and future scenarios must be logistically flexible and robust enough to account for the changes in world politics, where bases we planned to use today might not be available tomorrow. To improve AFSAA's (Air Force Studies and Analyses Agency) capability to quickly estimate beddown plans, we made enhancements to our logistics-planning tool, CBLP (Capabilities Based Logistics Planner). We made it easier to identify potential airfields, and added dynamic tables to display the reduced capabilities of the airfields, as aircraft are bedded down. These enhancements have been used at AFSAA to build more realistic beddown plans for use in our analysis. A web-based version of CBLP is being developed for demonstration in JEFX (Joint Expeditionary Forces Experiment) O4 under the C2 (Command and Control) Battlelab's Visualization of Expeditionary Sites Tools (VEST) initiative. This paper explains the enhancements made and the heuristic developed to estimate the parking capability of the airfields.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 31, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADA418366
Entities
People
- David A. Koewler