Joint Light Tactical Vehicle and Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle Optimum Procurement Ratio

Abstract

This thesis builds an optimization decision model that can be used to determine the optimum ratio of the two vehicles that the Army and Marine Corps can purchase to minimize costs while taking into account constraints related to each vehicles' capabilities, such as required off-road capabilities and transport ease for missions supported by the services. The proposed optimization decision model is a cost minimizing non-linear programming model that also accounts for changes in the average production cost of each type of vehicle by embedding a cumulative average cost formula into the objective function of the model.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA578489

Entities

People

  • Kyle E. Mattox

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Computer Programming
  • Defense Industry
  • Department Of Defense
  • Explosive Devices
  • Governments
  • Improvised Explosive Devices
  • Linear Programming
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Optimization
  • Personnel Management
  • Procurement
  • Tactical Vehicles
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting
  • Statistical inference.