Estimating Supply-Chain Burdens in Support of Acquisition Decisions

Abstract

Acquisition decisions drive supply-chain requirements that incur financial costs and other critical impacts. To account properly for the resource impacts of demand for fuel and other supplies for new weapon systems and platforms, the Services are required to estimate the fully burdened cost of energy in acquisition analyses, including the resources required for the logistics activities necessary to deliver supplies to the warfighter in an operational scenario. This research uses economic input/output analysis to model the Department of Defense supply chain to estimate the fully burdened cost of fuel and other supplies as a function of the locus of demand to support acquisition decisions. This year's accomplishments include the following: (1) modeling logistics with force protection for fuel delivery to Navy assets in a threat environment and applying the results to real-world examples, and (2) modeling the impact of consumption of multiple supply commodities by logistics activities themselves.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 20, 2013
Accession Number
ADA586202

Entities

People

  • Daniel Nussbaum
  • Eva Regnier
  • Jay Simon

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Climate Change Adaptation
  • Commerce
  • Commodities
  • Department Of Defense
  • Equations
  • Force Protection
  • Fuel Consumption
  • Fuel Efficiency
  • Logistics
  • Naval Operations
  • Navy
  • Operations Research
  • Public Policy
  • Second World War
  • Security
  • Supply Chain

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.