Accession Number:

AD1029682

Title:

Aerial Logistics Management for Carrier Onboard Delivery

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report

Corporate Author:

Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States

Personal Author(s):

• Chen,Samuel L.

Report Date:

2016-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

65.0

Abstract:

Carrier onboard delivery COD is the use of aircraft to transport people and cargo from a forward logistics site FLS to a carrier strike group CSG. The goal of this thesis is to study how the real-time cargo tracking capability can reduce the delay of high-priority cargo while increasing that of low-priority cargo. To do so, we analyze data from COD operations between 2010 and 2015 to develop a simulation model, and use those data to infer model parameters. Our simulation results indicate that, with two C-2A aircraft currently used by the Navy, real-time cargo tracking can reduce the delay of high-priority cargo by more than 50, while increasing that of low-priority cargo by about 25. The Navy plans to replace C-2A with a variant of V-22 Osprey for COD operations in the near future, and is conducting cargo space studies to facilitate this transition. By testing a few different model parameters based on studies available for V-22, our simulation results indicate a similar observation of delay tradeoff between high-priority cargo and low-priority cargo, although the tradeoff is less pronounced, mainly because three V-22 will be stationed at the FLS.

Descriptors:

• AERIAL DELIVERY
• DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION (MODEL)
• united states special operations command
• mathematical models
• probability
• logistics management
• naval air stations
• CARGO
• transport aircraft
• aircraft equipment
• maintenance
• stochastic processes
• tilt rotor aircraft

Subject Categories:

• Logistics, Military Facilities and Supplies
• Computer Programming and Software

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE