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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
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.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE