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1996 CNA/RAND Infrastructure Symposium
December 1, 1996
The Director of Shore Installation Management (N46) sponsored CNA's participation in an Infrastructure Symposium with RAND from October 16 to 18, 1996 at the RAND Santa Monica facility. Both CNA and RAND have a long history of research in defense infrastructure. By working together, they can build upon each other's research and plan future research better than if they work in isolation. DoD continues to struggle with how to operate more effectively and fulfill its mission when resources are shrinking. In particular, DoD is looking to create a more efficient infrastructure to make funds available for recapitalization and modernization. The primary purpose of the symposium was to synthesize the results of previous and ongoing research projects and thereby identify the best areas and approaches for future research. This paper represents the views of the CNA participants. As many of the results reported were preliminary, we avoid detailing the findings.
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Planning Requirements for Humanitarian Assistance Operations
April 1, 1996
The Center for Naval Analyses conducted a study to identify and analyze alternative ways the Marine Corps might consider to improve its ability to conduct Humanitarian Assistance Operations (HAO). To achieve this objective we (1) examined how the military has conducted HAOs in the past; (2) identified alternative way the military can conduct these operations; and (3) assessed the relative costs of these alternatives in terms of changes in organizations, education and training, doctrine and documentation, and equipment and supplies. This paper addresses how the Marines and the military in general can improve their ability to plan an HAO. It is one of a series of papers on the U.S. Marine Corps and HAOs.
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Desert Storm Reconstruction Report, Volume XI: Medical
October 1, 1991
This volume of the Desert Storm Reconstruction Report describes the medical support provided by the Navy during Desert Shield/Desert Storm and discusses the lessons learned during the operation.
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A Sampling of U.S. Naval Humanitarian Operations
November 1, 1990
This information manual provides a sampling of U.S. Naval humanitarian operations over the past four decades. It was prepared as an adjunct to CNA's work on the history of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps crisis-response activity. This manual should not be viewed as a comprehensive documentation but instead as a highlighting of a few examples of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps humanitarian activity.
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Estimating U.S. Navy Support Costs
June 1, 1974
In an environment characterized by austere budgets and changing force levels, the need to provide estimates of support requirements corresponding to force alternatives has become acute. The procedure described here meets this challenge by incorporating Leontief's input-output analysis into a force cost model. One advantage to this technique is that it allocates support resources to the forces, thus giving insight into the utilization of support by forces. However, its real power is in capturing the existing implicit support relationships and using them to project support resources consistent with specified forces. This approach does not attempt to find optimal support policies; it does predict the marginal impact of force changes based on a given set of support policies. It can also, if desired, estimate the resource impact if support policies are varied. The input-output model described here was developed for the U.S. Navy but the method has applicability to any large interrelated system.
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Optimal Inventory Management for Naval Aviation Support
June 1, 1974
The application of a theoretical inventory model to the problems of management of aviation spare parts is described in this paper. The results of this analysis suggest that the use of such models can be of significant benefit to the Navy, and are relatively simple to implement. Recommended stockage and ordering policies for ten parts currently being provisioned for the F-14 are discussed. Sensitivity analyses suggest several areas in which future studies should be undertaken.
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