Mobilizing Marine Corps officers
By: Dan O. Bausch, Gerald G. Brown, Danny R. Hundley, Stephen H. Rapp, Richard E. Rosenthal
Contributors: Brown, Gerald Gerard; Hundley, Danny R.; Rapp, Stephen H.; Rosenthal, Richard E.; Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Dept. of Operations Research
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Subjects: MARINE CORPS PERSONNEL; OFFICER PERSONNEL
Other titles: NPS-55-89-009.
Description: The ability to rapidly mobilize the Marine Corps in times of crisis is a cornerstone of United      States defense strategy. We present a network- optimization based system which, in      conjunction with carefully designed and scrupulously maintained manpower databases, assigns      Marine officers to mobilization billets. The system is installed on a 386-based personal      computer, and takes less than 10 minutes to complete a mobilization involving as many as      40,000 officers (i.e., all available active-duty, reserve and retired Marine officers) and 27,000      billets. The small amount of PC computing time that the system spends on this very large      assignment problem includes the production of output suitable for generating orders-to-report      via MAILGRAM. Prior to our work, the only tool the Marine Corps had to help with      mobilization assignment was a mainframe-based system which takes two to four days to      complete a mobilization. The new system is not only much faster, but it also produces      significantly better assignments than the old system with respect to all measures of      effectiveness considered. Keywords: Military appreciations; Manpower; Optimization;      Networks. (sdw)
Notes: Cover title.

"NPS-55-89-009."

AD A212 428.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 23)

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