Mobilizing Marine Corps Officers
| dc.contributor.author | Bausch, Dan O. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Brown, Gerald G. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hundley, Danny | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rapp, Stephen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rosenthal, Richard E. | |
| dc.contributor.department | Operations Research (OR) | |
| dc.date | July - August 1991 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-09T22:21:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-01-09T22:21:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1991 | |
| dc.description | Interfaces, 21, pp. 26-38 (1989 Koopman Award winner). | en_US |
| dc.description.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 based 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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Bausch, D., Brown, G.G., Hundley, D., Rapp, S., and Rosenthal, R.E., 1991, “Mobilizing Marine Corps Officers,” Interfaces, 21, pp. 26-38 (1989 Koopman Award winner). | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10945/38136 | |
| dc.rights | defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States. | en_US |
| dc.title | Mobilizing Marine Corps Officers | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication |
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