Evaluation of Fleet Ownership versus Global Allocation of Ships in the Combat Logistics Force

Abstract

Military Sealift Command (MSC) introduced its new Dry Cargo and Ammunition Ship (T-AKE) in June 2006, to replace its retiring ammunition and fast combat stores supply ships. MSC seeks new ways to use T-AKEs, fleet replenishment oilers, and fast combat support ships to better support the U.S. Navy. The author evaluates two alternate ways to manage these ships, one in which each ship operates under a particular "fleet ownership," and another in which the ships are "globally allocated," serving any fleet customer as needed worldwide. He introduces an optimization-based scheduling tool, and uses it to evaluate an expository 181-day peacetime scenario. He tracks daily inventories of 13 battle groups --- carrier strike groups, expeditionary strike groups, surface strike groups, and a littoral combat ship squadron --- to gain insight into how to best employ Combat Logistics Force (CLF) ships. The author determines that, in this scenario, global allocation provides significantly better service to fleet customers than does fleet ownership.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA456929

Entities

People

  • David E. Doyle

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combat Operations
  • Combat Support
  • Deployment
  • Guided Missile Ships
  • Littoral Combat Ships
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Planning
  • Maintenance
  • Marine Transportation
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Vessels (Combatant)
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Operations Research
  • Petroleum
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
  • Operations Research