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Mobilizing Marine Corps Officers

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  • Dan O. Bausch

    (Insight, Incorporated, Bend, Oregon 97709-1609)

  • Gerald G. Brown

    (Operations Research Department, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California 93943)

  • Danny R. Hundley

    (United States Marine Corps, Washington, DC 20380)

  • Stephen H. Rapp

    (United States Marine Corps, Washington, DC 20380 and Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California 93943)

  • Richard E. Rosenthal

    (Operations Research Department, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California 93943)

Abstract

The ability to rapidly mobilize the Marine Corps in times of crisis is a cornerstone of United States defense strategy. To mobilize rapidly, the marines need an efficient system for assigning officers to mobilization billets. The system we designed and built is based on a network optimization algorithm that works in conjunction with carefully designed and scrupulously maintained Marine Corps data bases. It takes less than 10 minutes on a 386-based personal computer to complete a mobilization involving 40,000 officers and 27,000 billets and to produce output suitable for generating orders to report via MAILGRAM . Prior to our work, the Marine Corps had a mainframe-based system that took two to four days to complete a mobilization. The new system is not only much faster than the old system, but it also produces significantly better assignments with respect to all measures of effectiveness considered.

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  • Dan O. Bausch & Gerald G. Brown & Danny R. Hundley & Stephen H. Rapp & Richard E. Rosenthal, 1991. "Mobilizing Marine Corps Officers," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 21(4), pages 26-38, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:21:y:1991:i:4:p:26-38
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.21.4.26
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    1. Dan Shrimpton & Alexandra M. Newman, 2005. "The US Army Uses a Network Optimization Model to Designate Career Fields for Officers," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 35(3), pages 230-237, June.
    2. Sutton, Warren & Dimitrov, Stanko, 2013. "The U.S. Navy explores detailing cost reduction via Data Envelopment Analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 227(1), pages 166-173.

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