Enhancing persistence when optimally scheduling depot-level repair activity for the United States Marine Corps

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dc.contributor.advisorBrown, Gerald G.
dc.contributor.authorDrexler, Jonathan A.
dc.contributor.departmentOperations Research (OR)
dc.contributor.secondreaderWashburn, Alan R.
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-14T17:30:12Z
dc.date.available2012-03-14T17:30:12Z
dc.date.issued2003-06
dc.description.abstractThe United States Marine Corps' ability to wage war and its warfighting effectiveness rely heavily on the availability of its tactical ground equipment. The Marine Corps optimizes the warfighting availability of its tactical ground equipment in its depot-level repair plan, which commits $450 million over a six-year horizon. Currently, small changes (for example, budget) to the input to this model produce non-intuitive revisions that are needlessly disruptive. The Marine Corps Materiel Command (MATCOM) recognizes this problem and has asked for enhancement of their current model to include persistent features. We show that turbulence can be reduced at little cost in warfighting availability. We also investigate an approximate, but very fast heuristic in lieu of mathematical optimization to solve this problem. A simple greedy myopic heuristic quickly produces nearly-optimal advice to the depot-level planning problem.en_US
dc.description.distributionstatementApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
dc.description.serviceCaptain, United States Marine Corpsen_US
dc.description.urihttp://archive.org/details/enhancingpersist10945999
dc.format.extentxx, 62 p. : ill. (some col.) ;en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10945/999
dc.publisherMonterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
dc.rightsThis publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.en_US
dc.subject.authorOptimization
dc.subject.authorPersistence
dc.subject.authorHeuristic
dc.subject.authorMaintenance Planning
dc.subject.authorDepot Repair
dc.subject.authorHamming distance
dc.titleEnhancing persistence when optimally scheduling depot-level repair activity for the United States Marine Corpsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dspace.entity.typePublication
etd.thesisdegree.disciplineOperations Researchen_US
etd.thesisdegree.grantorNaval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
etd.thesisdegree.levelMastersen_US
etd.thesisdegree.nameMaster of Science in Operations Researchen_US
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