Military Sealift Command (MSC) introduced its new Dry Cargo and Ammunition Ship (T-AKE) in June 2006, to replace its retiring ammunition and fast combat stores supply ships. MSC seeks new ways to use T-AKEs, fleet replenishment oilers, and fast combat support ships to better support the U.S. Navy. We evaluate two alternate ways to manage these ships, one where each ship operates under a particular "fleet ownership," and another where these ships are "globally allocated," serving any fleet customer as needed worldwide. We introduce an optimization-based scheduling tool, and use it to evaluate an expository 181-day peacetime scenario. We track daily inventories of 13 battle groups - carrier strike groups, expeditionary strike groups, surface strike groups, and a littoral combat ship squadron - to gain insight into how to best employ CLF ships. We determine that, in our scenario, global allocation provides significantly better service to fleet customers.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nps.edu/oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/2596 |
| Date | 09 1900 |
| Creators | Doyle, David E. |
| Contributors | Carlyle, W. Matthew, Brown, Gerald G., Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)., Operations Research |
| Publisher | Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School |
| Source Sets | Naval Postgraduate School |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | xviii, 80 p. : ill. ;, application/pdf |
| Rights | Approved for public release, distribution unlimited |
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