Naval Postgraduate School
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OPTIMIZING MARINE CORPS INSTALLATION READINESS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2019-06)
Marine Corps Installations Command (MCICOM) (enacted in 2012) exercises command and control over United States Marine Corps (USMC) installations through regional commanders. The department manages over 27,000 buildings and ...
PAYING FOR WEIGHT IN BLOOD: AN ANALYSIS OF WEIGHT AND PROTECTION LEVEL OF A COMBAT LOAD DURING TACTICAL OPERATIONS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2019-06)
To gain, retain, or increase an advantage over enemy forces, military leaders have emphasized the importance of providing the latest and greatest technology to the warfighter. A common—possibly unintended but accepted—consequence ...
AN ANALYSIS OF THE MARINE CORPS DEPOT-LEVEL MAINTENANCE BUDGETING MODEL
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2019-06)
The Marine Corps relies on advanced ground equipment that requires significant depot-level maintenance to extend its life cycle. However, Marine Corps budgets continue to be strained, and every dollar counts. Therefore, ...
EFFECTIVE HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS DELIVERY USING SPACE-FILLING CURVES
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2019-03)
The military has increasingly been used for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) operations over the past two decades. HADR operations are an essential component of building international relations that often ...
DISTRIBUTED MARITIME OPERATIONS AND UNMANNED SYSTEMS TACTICAL EMPLOYMENT
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-06)
The concept of Distributed Maritime Operations intends to enable a force that is capable of winning a fleet-on-fleet engagement through the integration of manned and unmanned systems, execution of deceptive tactics, and ...
GENERATING EFFICIENT AND ROBUST SCHEDULES TO DELIVER BULK FUEL VIA AMPHIBIOUS CONNECTORS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-06)
During an amphibious operation, transporting Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) resources from ship to shore is a burdensome endeavor full of risks and complexity. Current scheduling techniques are arduous and time consuming, ...
A HYBRID SAMPLING METHOD FOR THREE-WAY CONTINGENCY TABLES
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-06)
We develop an algorithm blending Sequential Importance Sampling (SIS) and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to conduct goodness of fit testing on three-way contingency tables under the no-three-way interaction model. Unlike ...
OPTIMIZING MARINE CORPS SECONDARY REPARABLE MAINTENANCE
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-06)
The Marine Corps manages a centralized secondary reparable inventory of over 1,000 different items with an enterprise-wide retail value of more than $600 million. These secondary reparable items are those components and ...
MODELING FIRST-TERM ENLISTMENT COMPLETION FOR THE SELECTED MARINE CORPS RESERVE
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-06)
Military retention studies seek to better explain the factors affecting a service member’s decision to complete contractual service agreements. For the purposes of meeting the national security needs of the nation, these ...
SCHEDULING AMPHIBIOUS CONNECTORS TO DELIVER MULTIPLE COMMODITIES
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-06)
Across the amphibious warfighting community, planners need to quickly develop schedules to deliver multiple supply commodities during ship-to-shore operations. We extend the single-commodity models underpinning the Marine ...
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