Changing Aircraft Carrier Procurement Schedules
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Author | : John F. Schank |
Publisher | : RAND Corporation |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-03-04 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780833051455 |
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The Secretary of Defense plans to shift Navy aircraft carrier acquisition to every five years. This shift should have little impact on force structure and the industrial base in the next decade. After that, the force structure shrinks, as does the chance of meeting goals for the number of deployed aircraft carriers. The plan could have a larger effect on any later desire to increase the number of aircraft carriers in the fleet.
Author | : Roland J. Yardley |
Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0833041827 |
Download A Methodology for Estimating the Effect of Aircraft Carrier Operational Cycles on the Maintenance Industrial Base Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Fleet Response Plan is a U.S. Navy program to enhance the operational availability of the aircraft carrier fleet. This report describes program modeling that varies the time between depot availabilities and the size of the depot work packages, to estimate its effect on the maintenance industrial base and the operational availability of the aircraft carrier fleet.
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2017-09-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781976185878 |
Download Procurement, Acquisition, Testing, and Oversight of the Navy's Gerald R. Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier Program Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Procurement, acquisition, testing, and oversight of the navy's Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier program : hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, October 1, 2015.
Author | : Mehmet Ayik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1998-03-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781423562047 |
Download Optimal Long-Term Aircraft Carrier Deployment Planning with Synchronous Depot Level Maintenance Scheduling Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Forward deployment of Navy aircraft carrier battle groups is a primary means for the United States to achieve overseas interests. The Navy maintains the forward presence of aircraft carriers in three major Areas of Responsibility (AORs): the Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf, and the Western Pacific. Considering the cost of carrier operations and the desire to maximize coverage of the AORs, planning deployments for the carriers not only significantly affects the achievement of U.S. defense strategy, but also impacts the Navy financially. Previous studies have maximized the deployment of aircraft carriers to the AORs while strictly adhering to the fixed, long-range maintenance schedules published by the Planning and Engineering for Repairs and Alterations Activity for Aircraft Carriers (PERA CV). This thesis optimizes aircraft carrier deployment planning while shifting the pre-scheduled maintenance availabilities well within limits allowed by the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO). This synchronous planning of deployments and major maintenance yields at least 15% more planned coverage in the AORs with the existing carrier fleet Such an increase had heretofore been thought to require three additional aircraft carriers.
Author | : Roland J. Yardley |
Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
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Download Increasing Aircraft Carrier Forward Presence Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The authors assess several one- and two-deployment cycles, assuming a deployment length of six months and a time-between-deployments length equal to twice the duration of the previous deployment. Among many findings, RAND concludes that shorter cycles can increase the forward presence of the carrier fleet and help level shipyard workloads. Longer, two-deployment cycles can increase forward presence, but may result in shipyard workload complications and deferred-work backlogs."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Craig T. Schauppner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 67 |
Release | : 1996-03-01 |
Genre | : Aircraft carriers |
ISBN | : 9781423575443 |
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The Navy's peacetime mission is 'to conduct forward presence operations to help shape the strategic environment by deterring conflict, building interoperability, and by responding, as necessary, to fast breaking crises with the demonstration and application of credible combat power. 'To meet this mission, the Navy deploys aircraft carriers to forward positions throughout the world. A new nuclear powered aircraft carrier costs over $3.4 billion dollars and when deployed carries over 6,000 personnel onboard. Considering the cost and the man hours involved in carrier operations judicious and effective use of these valuable assets is imperative. The CINCPACFLT Operations Department maintains a five year deployment plan for the six carriers assigned to the Pacific Fleet. Currently, the deployment schedule is produced manually. A feasible five year plan typically takes the carrier scheduling officer one week to generate. This thesis presents an optimization based tool to assist in constructing deployment schedules that maximize the forward presence of Pacific Fleet carriers. The underlying optimization model is different from those in the literature. Instead of using a set covering approach, the problem is formulated as a shortest path problem with side constraints. This formulation allows the problem to be solved more rapidly, thus allowing more opportunities for sensitivity and trade-off analyses.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Aircraft carriers |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Matthew H. Hall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 87 |
Release | : 2004-09-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781423522393 |
Download The Impact of Long-Term Aircraft Carrier Maintenance Scheduling on the Fleet Readiness Plan Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Maintaining the Fleet Readiness Plan (FRP) construct of six aircraft carriers available within 30 days, plus two additional carriers available within 90 days is a difficult task. Maintenance requirements on carriers alone make satisfying the FRP a challenging scheduling problem. We develop a carrier maintenance scheduling model with a goal to meet, as best as possible, the FRP requirements over a ten-year period, while obeying simple maintenance facility constraints. This model allows us to anticipate gaps in coverage and also quantitatively assess the benefit, or burden, of resizing the fleet. We conclude that by increasing the average cycle time for a Carrier Strike Group (CSG) to 27 months we can meet the FRP requirements continuously after an initial maintenance adjustment period of 62 months.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
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Download Increasing Aircraft Carrier Forward Presence: Changing the Length of the Maintenance Cycle Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The U.S. Navy currently maintains a fleet of 11 aircraft carriers. These ships, which are among the most powerful and versatile elements of U.S. naval forces, allow the Navy to undertake a wide range of tasks. They are also among the most complex weapon systems operated by the Navy. The carriers themselves need continuous and regularly scheduled maintenance. Their crews require a great deal of training to attain and sustain readiness levels. The length of the training, readiness, deployment, and maintenance cycle (defined as the period from the end of one depot maintenance period to the end of the next), the type of maintenance needed (i.e., docking or non-docking), and the timing of events within the cycle affect the carrier's availability to meet operational needs.
Author | : John Birkler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Download The U.S. Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base Force Structure, Cost, Schedule, and Technology Issues for CVN 77 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This report documents the methods and findings of RAND research on the adequacy of the defense industrial base to support further construction of aircraft carriers and on the cost, schedule, and technology issues associated with building the next carrier, designated CVN 77. If the current carrier force size of 12 ships is to be maintained and if a decay in the quality of basic capabilities is to be avoided, CVN 77 cannot be started more than a year or so beyond the currently planned date of 2002. The earlier CVN is started, the less it will cost. Increasing the build duration from the planned 6.5 years to 8.5 years will also reduce costs. However, timing should not greatly affect the survival of suppliers of carrier components. The report recommends beginning ship fabrication before 2002 (which could save hundreds of millions of dollars); ordering contractor-furnished equipment in advance of shipyard start (a savings of tens of millions); and investment in R & D directed toward adapting production processes and engineering improvements that could reduce the cost of carrier construction, operation and maintenance, and manning. In fact, the costs involved in building and operating carriers are so huge that the Navy should consider establishing a stable annual R & D funding level for these ships.