ANALYZING US NAVY F/A-18 FUEL CONSUMPTION FOR PURPOSES OF ENERGY CONSERVATION

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dc.contributor.advisorButtrey, Samuel E.
dc.contributor.authorBarnhill, David
dc.contributor.departmentOperations Research (OR)
dc.contributor.secondreaderWhitaker, Lyn R.
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-14T03:50:33Z
dc.date.available2021-05-14T03:50:33Z
dc.date.issued2021-03
dc.description.abstractEnergy usage and conservation are perennial challenges facing the Naval Aviation Enterprise (NAE) and the U.S. Navy (USN) writ large. In order to promote USN energy conservation, the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) established the Air Energy Conservation (Air ENCON) program to further analytics-driven energy consumption assessment, and assist the USN to meet broader conservation goals. This study used a flight sortie data set built by Deloitte Consulting, constructed from three separate data sources, to assess F/A-18 fuel consumption, aiding Air ENCON analysis goals. The data set, which was derived from aircraft memory unit (MU) recordings, Naval Aviation Flight Records (NAVFLIR), and the Sierra-Hotel Aviation Readiness Program (SHARP) records, consisted of more than 466,000 USN F/A-18 sorties spanning a four-year time frame. This research evaluated the veracity of sortie data fuel output metrics and identified broad fuel consumption trends despite a significant proportion of missing or unused information. Furthermore, this thesis documents the effectiveness of the data to predict fuel consumption by use of original and generated predictors in combination with various imputation methods. Results suggest that while statistical inference is difficult due to the amount of missing data, broad trends related to sortie location are identifiable, and models using imputation coupled with original and generated predictors exhibit the best results for predictive effectiveness.en_US
dc.description.distributionstatementApproved for public release. distribution is unlimiteden_US
dc.description.recognitionOutstanding Thesisen_US
dc.description.serviceCommander, United States Navyen_US
dc.description.urihttp://archive.org/details/analyzingusnavyf1094567103
dc.identifier.curriculumcode360, Operations Analysis
dc.identifier.thesisid34847
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10945/67103
dc.publisherMonterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNPS Outstanding Theses and Dissertations
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.authorfuelen_US
dc.subject.authorfuel conservationen_US
dc.subject.authorF/A-18en_US
dc.subject.authorE-2Den_US
dc.subject.authorE/A-18en_US
dc.subject.authornaval aviationen_US
dc.subject.authormachine learningen_US
dc.subject.authorpredicten_US
dc.titleANALYZING US NAVY F/A-18 FUEL CONSUMPTION FOR PURPOSES OF ENERGY CONSERVATIONen_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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