Optimally funding Army Installation repair and maintenance activities

The Army's Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management (ACSIM) allocated over $4.862 Billion in 1995 to over 200 Army installations for Repair and Maintenance Activities (RPMA). However, this allocation and those of the recent past have historically covered only 40 to 70 percent of total requirements. In response, ACSIM developed an efficient and defensible management paradigm called Infrastructure Decision Architecture (IDA). The IDA contains a model called the Decision Support Tool (DST) that projects future infrastructure status given a proposed six year budget, the current infrastructure status, a funding hierarchy, and an infrastructure priority. This thesis develops a linear program incorporating the goals of the IDA into an optimization based decision support system, completing the DST. This thesis affords ACSIM decision makers the following abilities: a projection of the optimal inventory status resulting from a given budget; the six year annual allocation policy to obtain the optimal benefit; the ability to defend budget needs concerning desired infrastructure status in the procurement cycle; and the ability to conduct "what ifs" on different budget strategies and infrastructure end States. Successful model runs for eleven different Major Commands using Fiscal Year 1996 data resulted in installation infrastructure status projections and annual funding consistent with ACSIM priorities.

Department dc:contributor.department

Department of Operations Research

Grantor dc:publisher

Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School

Year dc:date.issued

1997

Author dc:creator

• Bridges, Michael R.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Dell, Robert F.

Statement dc:rights

• This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10945/8779

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/8779