MPAMOD: an optimization model for maritime patrol aviation modernization planning.
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Authors
Osborn, Brian A.
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Wood, R. Kevin
Date of Issue
1993-03
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
This thesis describes an integer programming model to aid in the development of
long-range modernization plans for the Navy's Maritime Patrol Aviation fleet. The model
is a production/inventory model implemented in the General Algebraic Modeling System
(GAMS) and solved with the X-System. Over a user-defined planning horizon, at a
yearly level of detail, the model determines an optimal schedule for procuring new
aircraft, refurbishing the airframes of existing aircraft through the Sustained Readiness
Program and the Service Life Extension Program, upgrading avionics, and retiring old
aircraft. Constraints enforce minimum inventory levels, mission effectiveness goals by
mission area, goals for minimum average life remaining of the force, budget limitations
and annual line capacities for producing, refurbishing and upgrading aircraft. A typical
model involves 4,800 constraints and 13,000 general integer variables and is solved to
within 4% of optimality in 7.5 minutes on an Amdahl 5990-500.
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Thesis
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Department
Operations Research (OR)
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School
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55 p.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.