Accession Number:

ADA513369

Title:

Optimally Stationing Army Forces

Descriptive Note:

Journal article

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Personal Author(s):

• Dell, Robert F.
• Ewing, P. L.
• Tarantino, William J.

Report Date:

2008-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

16.0

Abstract:

There are over one million United States active-duty Army, Army National Guard, and Army Reserve soldiers. The Army assigns each soldier to a unit at one of over 4,000 worldwide locations these facilities consist of approximately 15 million acres and 287 million square feet. The Army can change a soldiers unit assignment it can also move a units home installation. This paper presents an integer linear program, Optimally Stationing Army Forces OSAF, which prescribes optimal Army stationing for a given set of units. OSAF uses the existing starting locations, set of installations, available implementation dollars, and unit requirements for facilities, ranges, and maneuver land. It has provided the Army with stationing analysis for several years. Perhaps most significantly, OSAF helped with the closure and realignment decisions during the 2005 round of Base Realignment and Closure BRAC. As a result of this BRAC, by 2011 the Army will close 400 installations 13 installations that primarily house active-duty soldiers, 176 Army Reserve centers, and 211 National Guard armories and realign 56 active units. These BRAC actions will impact 43 states, cost more than 13 billion to implement, and generate an expected 20-year net savings of 7.6 billion.

Descriptors:

• *MILITARY FORCES(UNITED STATES)
• MILITARY RESERVES
• REPRINTS
• POSITION(LOCATION)
• DEFENSE SYSTEMS
• ACTIVE DUTY
• COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
• LINEAR PROGRAMMING
• ARMY FACILITIES
• COSTS
• INSTALLATION
• ALLOCATIONS
• NATIONAL GUARD
• ARMY PERSONNEL

Subject Categories:

• Military Forces and Organizations

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE