Optimizing Military Capital Planning

Abstract

Planning United States military procurement commits a significant portion of our nation s wealth and determines our ability to defend ourselves, our allies, and our principles over the long term. Our military pioneered and has long used mathematical optimization to unravel the distinguishing complexities of military capital planning. The succession of mathematical optimization models we present exhibits increasingly detailed features; such embellishments are always needed for real-world, long-term procurement decision models. Two case studies illustrate practical modeling tricks that are useful in helping decision makers decide how to spend about a trillion dollars.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA487388

Entities

People

  • Alexandra M. Newman
  • Gerald G. Jerry Brown
  • Robert F. Dell

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Governments
  • Linear Programming
  • Maintenance Costs
  • Mathematical Models
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Military Aircraft
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Procurement
  • Money
  • Munitions
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Procurement
  • United States

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