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Effect Of Aircraft Age On Maintenance Costs
March 1, 2000
We report on a few publications that present quantitative conclusions on the impact of aging platforms on maintenance and operating costs. This literature review, though far from exhaustive, is meant to convey the idea that this topic has been examined before, and that work in this area is continuing. Some exploratory analysis of two data sets that were created for this purpose is presented. Both use the individual aircraft as the unit of Observation. One is organized around individual sorties in a particular month; the other contains summary maintenance labor data and is organized by aircraft, by month, for a 10-year period. Both provide additional evidence that maintenance effort raises with aircraft age.
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Sortie Generation Capacity of Embarked Airwings
December 1, 1998
The Naval Strike and Warfare Center asked the Center for Naval Analyses to help evaluate and analyze carrier and air wing sortie-generation capacity. Specifically, we set out to determine the firepower capacity of an embarked air wing, the factors that constrain the sortie-generation capacity, and ways to enhance the fire power capacity. In this paper, we create a base case focusing on the three major requirements of the creation of sea-based air power: the aircraft must be mission capable, the aircrew must be able to fly the aircraft, and the flight deck crews must ready aircraft for flight, launch aircraft, and recover aircraft after the completion of their missions. Our estimates of the capacity of the airframes, the aircrew, and the carrier and air wing's ability to launch, recover, and ready aircraft for launch rely on the characteristics of the base case.
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USS Nimitz and Carrier Airwing Nine Surge Demonstration
April 1, 1998
This paper is the first of a two-volume report in which the analysis of the USS Nimitz and Carrier Airwing Nine Surge operations of July 1997 are documented. This paper focuses on three areas: operational issues, aircraft and ship maintenance and supply issues, and personnel issues. The analysis is a combination of descriptive (narrative of what happened), qualitative (documentation of knowledgeable individual's insights), and quantitative (measured data, such as time expended, amount expended, and sorties generated) assessments. Special attention is paid to the generation and support of strike/fighter sorties.
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Implementing Readiness-Based Sparing in the Marine Aviation Logistics Support Program: Readiness Implications
December 1, 1995
The Marine Aviation Logistics Support Program (MALSP) was developed to ensure that all logistics support required for major regional contingency can be deployed quickly and efficiently when needed. The foundation for the MALSP is a set of standardized logistics support packages containing all the elements (spare parts, people, support equipment, and mobile facilities) required to support any contingency plan the Marine Corps may be tasked to execute. This study focuses on how the Marine should determine spare parts requirements for the MALSP. Specifically, we were asked by the Deputy Chief of Staff for Aviation, Headquarters Marine Corps to help them answer two questions: What are the potentia
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THE USE OF SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION MODELS FOR DECISIONS PERTAINING TO THE BEST MIX BETWEEN AIRCRAFT, SPARE PARTS, SUPPORT EQUIPMENT AND SUPPORT PERSONNEL
August 1, 1974
The relationships between aircraft inputs (airplanes, spare parts, men, etc.) and the outputs of sorties or aircraft ready hours can be approximated reasonably well by a production function type model. It is the initial intent of this research effort to construct and evaluate such an aircraft carrier production function. This model will then permit defense managers to have better understanding of the actual input-output process of operating sea-based tactical aircraft.
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SENSITIVITY TESTS ON SLAT COMPUTER SIMULATIONS USING EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
June 1, 1974
Experimental designs are proven to be just as useful in studying the interrelations between variables in computer simulations as they have been in agriculture and industry. This paper demonstrates that the statistical experimental design technique aids the analysis of complex simulation by efficient selection of the computer runs to be made and thereby saves computer time. Further the analysis is more complete, showing that the variables act jointly, and measures the goodness of fit of predicted values. As an example, the sensitivity tests on changes in air sortie effectiveness on a land campaign are discussed. The techniques, terminology and calculation methods with a bibliography are discussed in an appendix for those who wish to learn more about the technique.
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