NPS Student Advances Fuel-Saving Optimization Model

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Naval Postgraduate School Public Affairs Office
Stewart, Kenneth A.
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2015-11-09Metadata
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Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) student Lt. Cmdr. Korban Blackburn is developing an optimization tool dubbed the Optimized Transit Tool Easy Reference (OTTER), which has the potential to save the Navy millions in fuel costs.
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Through his studies in the NPS Department of Operations Research, university student Lt. Cmdr. Korban Blackburn is developing a fuel usage optimization planner, dubbed Optimized Transit Tool Easy Reference, which has the potential to save the Navy millions in fuel costs.
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