Accession Number:

AD1079716

Title:

Strategic Location and Dispatch Management of Assets in a Military Medical Evacuation Enterprise

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report,01 Mar 2017,13 Jun 2019

Corporate Author:

AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB United States

Personal Author(s):

• Jenkins,Phillip R

Report Date:

2019-06-13

Pagination or Media Count:

155.0

Abstract:

This dissertation considers the importance of optimizing deployed military medical evacuation MEDEVAC systems and utilizes operations research techniques to develop models that allow military medical planners to analyze different strategies regarding the management of MEDEVAC assets in a deployed environment. For optimization models relating to selected subproblems of the MEDEVAC enterprise, the work herein leverages integer programming, multi-objective optimization, Markov decision processes, approximate dynamic programming, and machine learning, as appropriate, to identify relevant insights for aerial MEDEVAC operations.

Descriptors:

• aeromedical evacuation
• blood transfusions
• combat casualty care
• contingency operations (military)
• multiobjective optimization
• military medicine
• medical personnel
• integer programming
• markov processes
• decision making
• approximation (mathematics)
• machine learning

Subject Categories:

• Escape, Rescue and Survival
• Operations Research

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE