Improving Test Throughput on a Navy Open-Air Test and Evaluation Range

Abstract

Naval Air Systems Command's (NAVAIRs) weapons test ranges at China Lake, CA struggle to meet increasing demand. Development programs are bringing more complex and capable weapons to the ranges. The resources of the ranges are being stretched thin and not all requests for testing are accommodated. The purpose of this paper is to seek a solution to increase range throughput within the constraints of the current resources. The effort involved evaluating range usage, identifying obstacles to increased throughput, and evaluating the processes associated with the obstacles. Recommendations for process changes were made and applied to a set of historical data to determine the impact of the processes and compare them with the historical solution. Data from the analysis show that specific changes to current processes have the potential to increase throughput by 9% without the need for additional resources.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA488654

Entities

People

  • Robert B. Jensen

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aerial Warfare
  • Aircrafts
  • Cameras
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Instrumentation
  • Personnel Management
  • Radar
  • Resource Management
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Simulations
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Management
  • Throughput

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design