Determining the required number of aircraft and personnel to maintain a given presence on station is a common and important problem in military contexts. In this paper, the proposed approach consists of finding schedules for multiple aircraft that meet the on-station requirement while minimizing the number of aircraft and crews required. Specifically, after discussing the schedule for a single aircraft, an integer program for the multiple aircraft case is formulated and presented. To capture the effect of unplanned maintenance on the overall number of required aircraft, a parameterized serviceability model is also introduced. As illustrated by a case study, this easy to implement methodology is able to provide quick and insightful results to the decision makers.


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    Title :

    Identifying Aircraft and Personnel Needs to Meet On-station Patrol Requirements


    Contributors:
    F. Bourque (author) / R. Mirshak (author) / P. L. Massel (author) / B. U. Nguyen (author) / J. C. Ansell (author)

    Publication date :

    2014


    Size :

    7 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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