Optimizing procurement planning of navy ships and aircraft
By: by Nihat Baran
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Description: The United States Navy Chief of Naval Operations Assessment Division (N81) is responsible for planning long-range capital expenditure on ships, submarines and aircraft. This planning is complicated, involves billions of dollars over decades, and determines future Navy capability. Navy force structure analysts have to balance: yearly budgets; requirements, current inventory, and procurement options for ships, submarines, and aircraft; and capacity and workforce levels of shipyards and factories. N81 Navy analysts currently use the Extended Planning Annex/Total Obligated Authority (a spreadsheet that estimates the financial impact of any complete future plan) to assist them with their complex planning. The Capital Investment Planning Aid (CIPA) is a prototypic optimization model, limited in scale, previously developed to demonstrate the benefits of augmenting EPA/TOA with optimization. This thesis introduces Generalizing Procurement Planning for Naval Ships and Aircraft (GENSA), which extends CIPA. GENSA is tested with a 30-year planning horizon with 29 mission areas, 45 ship classes, 39 aircraft types, 13 production facilities, and four categories of money. A current base case and an excursion demonstrate GENSA can be used to address exigent issues optimally.
Notes: Thesis advisor, Robert F. Dell.

Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research) Naval Postgraduate School, December 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 49).

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Table of contents: label: I.
title: US NAVY CAPITAL BUDGETING FOR SHIPS AND AIRCRAFT
pagenum: 1; label: II.
title: HOW THE NAVY PLANS ITS CAPITAL BUDGET
pagenum: 3; label: A.
title: IWAR FORCE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
pagenum: 3; label: B.
title: EPA/TOA, VAMOSC, AND THEIR COST ESTIMATES
pagenum: 3; label: C.
title: HOW EPA/TOA IS USED
pagenum: 3; label: D.
title: CAPITAL INVESTMENT PLANNING AID (CIPA)
pagenum: 4; label: E.
title: MILITARY CAPITAL BUDGETING LITERATURE
pagenum: 5; label: III.
title: OPTIMIZING PROCUREMENT PLANNING OF NAVY SHIPS AND EXTENSIONS OF CIPA
pagenum: 7; label: A.
title: GENERALIZING PROCUREMENT PLANNING AND EXTENSIONS OF CIPA
pagenum: 7; label: B.
title: MANPOWER AND MPN CALCULATIONS IN GENSA
pagenum: 9; label: C.
title: OPERATING AND MAINTENANCE COST (OMN) IN GENSA
pagenum: 11; label: IV.
title: MODEL
pagenum: 13; label: A.
title: INTRODUCTION
pagenum: 13; label: B.
title: FORMULATION
pagenum: 13; label: C.
title: MPN AND MPN CPST CALCULATIONS IN GENSA
pagenum: 19; label: V.
title: IMPLEMENTATION AND ANALYSIS
pagenum: 21; label: A.
title: MODEL IMPLEMENTATION
pagenum: 21; label: B.
title: DATA
pagenum: 21; label: 1.
title: Ship Procurement Cost
pagenum: 21; label: 2.
title: Aircraft Procurement Cost
pagenum: 23; label: 3.
title: Ship OMN Cost
pagenum: 25; label: 4.
title: Aircraft OMN Cost
pagenum: 26; label: 5.
title: Ship MPN Data
pagenum: 27; label: 6.
title: Aircraft MPN Data
pagenum: 28; label: 7.
title: Ship MPN Cost
pagenum: 30; label: 8.
title: Aircraft MPN Cost
pagenum: 32; label: 9.
title: Budget Data
pagenum: 33; label: 10.
title: Production Facility Data
pagenum: 33; label: 11.
title: Retirement Data
pagenum: 33; label: 12.
title: Mission Inventory Data
pagenum: 35; label: C.
title: COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS
pagenum: 36; label: 1.
title: Base Case
pagenum: 36; label: 2.
title: A Dramatic Decrease In Budget
pagenum: 43; label: VI.
title: CONCLUSION
pagenum: 45; label: APPENDIX.
title: CUMULATIVE RETIREMENT GOALS FOR GENSA MODELED PLATFORMS
pagenum: 47; title: LIST OF REFERENCES
pagenum: 49; title: INITIAL DISTRIBUTION LIST
pagenum: 51