Revised Class IV Planning Factors
Abstract
The Class IV supply category includes fortification materials, obstacle and barrier materials, and construction materials for base development and general engineering. A quick, valid estimate of the Class IV supply requirements for a given contingency is crucial to high-level military planning and analysis. The Total Army Analysis (TAA) planning scenarios and various Army analysis tools use a single planning factor (consumption rate) to estimate the gross tonnage requirements as a function of the number of soldiers deployed. In previous work the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories (USACERL) was tasked to update the Class IV supply planning factor. Subsequently, representatives of the user community requested that the proponent of the study revisit two aspects of the final Class IV computation that could overestimate actual Army Class IV requirements under certain scenarios. USACERL, in cooperation with user representatives and the proponent, met in October 1996 to discuss ideas for refining the computation of the overall consumption rate to best fit the requirements of the computer model used for the TAA studies. This report documents the computations made and the final algorithm derived for the Class IV planning factor as a result of the new methods adopted at the October 1996 meeting.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1997
- Accession Number
- ADB221756
Entities
People
- Carol A. Subick
Organizations
- Construction Engineering Research Laboratory