Optimizing Schedules for Maritime Humanitarian Cooperative Engagements from a United States Navy Sea Base
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Salmerón, Javier
Kline, Jeffrey
Densham, Greta Spitz
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2020
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This paper introduces Global Fleet Station Mission Planner (GFSMP), an optimization tool to aid in mission planning and the scheduling of humanitarian assistance missions for the US Navy. GFSMP helps fleet staffs to examine how one naval ship, which was deployed for an extended period (e.g., six months), with embarked teams can best provide humanitarian assistance. We illustrate the application of GFSMP using notional data from the fall 2007 Gulf of Guinea African Partnership Station demonstration, which the Commander, US Naval Forces Europe–Commander, Sixth Fleet developed, and by its use in the Trident Warrior 2009 exercise, which the Commander of the US Second Fleet conducted. In contrast to manual planning GFSMP’s solutions significantly improve total mission value achieved and reduce costs. Equally important, GFSMP quickly provides decision makers with courses of action, including partial rescheduling of existing plans, in response to exigent changes. “Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.” William Penn, American colonial leader (1644–1718)
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The article of record as published may be found at https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.1100.0494
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Operations Research (OR)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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16 p.
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Salmerón, Javier, Jeffrey Kline, and Greta Spitz Densham. "Optimizing schedules for maritime humanitarian cooperative engagements from a United States Navy sea base." Interfaces 41.3 (2011): 238-253.
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This 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.