Using Simulation and Optimization to Inform Army Force Structure Reduction Decisions

Abstract

Given constraints dictated by the current fiscal environment, the Army has been directed to reduce its total personnel strength from around 1.05 million across the active duty, Army National Guard, and Army Reserve, to a maximum of around 980 thousand personnel. In particular, the active duty Army will have to drawdown to around 450 thousand personnel. In this paper we discuss a methodology the Army is using to help inform decisions about how to execute this drawdown. We describe a simulation-based optimization that identifies potential cuts to a large subset of the active duty Army's total strength.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA617636

Entities

People

  • Andrew Loerch
  • Jason Southerland

Organizations

  • Center for Army Analysis

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Active Duty
  • Army
  • Data Processing
  • Deployment
  • Environment
  • Force Structure
  • Information Operations
  • Inventory
  • Law
  • Military Applications
  • Military Operations
  • National Guard
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States

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