Mobilizing Marine Corps Officers

Abstract

The ability to rapidly mobilize the Marine Corps in times of crisis is a cornerstone of United States defense strategy. To mobilize rapidly, the marines need an efficient system for assigning officers to mobilization billets. The system we designed and built is based on a network optimization algorithm that works in conjunction with carefully designed and scrupulously maintained Marine Corps data bases. It takes less than 10 minutes on a 386-based personal computer to complete a mobilization involving 40,000 officers and 27,000 billets and to produce output suitable for generating orders to report via MAILGRAM. Prior to our work, the Marine Corps had a mainframe-based system that took two to four days to complete a mobilization. The new system is not only much faster than the old system, but it also produces significantly better assignments with respect to all measures of effectiveness considered.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA591401

Entities

People

  • Dan O. Bausch
  • Danny R. Hundley
  • Gerald G. Jerry Brown
  • Richard E. Rosenthal
  • Stephen H. Rapp

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Algorithms
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Mainframe Computers
  • Manpower
  • Marine Corps
  • Measures Of Effectiveness
  • Military Occupational Specialties
  • Military Personnel
  • Mobilization
  • National Security
  • Operations Research
  • Personal Computers
  • Personnel Management
  • United States

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.