Accession Number:

ADA576247

Title:

An Optimization Model for Modernizing the Army's Helicopter Fleet

Descriptive Note:

Journal article

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Personal Author(s):

• Brown, Gerald G.
• Clemence, Robert D.
• Teufert, William R.
• Wood, R. K.

Report Date:

1991-07-01

Pagination or Media Count:

14.0

Abstract:

The helicopter has grown in military stature for more than 40 years its ascendancy has reformed the US Army. Unfortunately, the current army helicopter fleet consists predominantly of Vietnam-era aircraft approaching the end of their useful lives. We have captured complex procurement and modernization tasks in an optimization-based decision support system, christened PHOENIX, which recognizes yearly operating maintenance, retirement, service-life extension, and new procurement costs while enforcing constraints on fleet age, technology mix, composition, and budgets over a multi-year planning horizon. The army has applied PHOENIX to helicopters with such success that it has already been adapted to tactical wheeled vehicles and is under consideration for further applications.

Descriptors:

• *ARMY
• *HELICOPTERS
• *MODELS
• *OPTIMIZATION
• COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
• COSTS
• FINANCE
• PROCUREMENT

Subject Categories:

• Helicopters

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE