An Optimization Model for Modernizing the Army's Helicopter Fleet

Abstract

The helicopter has grown in military stature for more than 40 years: its ascendancy has reformed the US Army. Unfortunately, the current army helicopter fleet consists predominantly of Vietnam-era aircraft approaching the end of their useful lives. We have captured complex procurement and modernization tasks in an optimization-based decision support system, christened PHOENIX, which recognizes yearly operating maintenance, retirement, service-life extension, and new procurement costs while enforcing constraints on fleet age, technology mix, composition, and budgets over a multi-year planning horizon. The army has applied PHOENIX to helicopters with such success that it has already been adapted to tactical wheeled vehicles and is under consideration for further applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA576247

Entities

People

  • Gerald G. Jerry Brown
  • R. Kevin Wood
  • Robert D. Clemence
  • William R. Teufert

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Army Aircraft
  • Computer Programs
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Helicopters
  • Inventory
  • Maintenance
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Procurement
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Standards
  • Turbines
  • Vehicles

Readers

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