Optimizing the US Navy's combat logistics force

We study how changes to the composition and employment of the US Navy combat logistic force (CLF) influence our ability to supply our navy worldwide. The CLF consists of about 30 special transport ships that carry ship and aircraft fuel, ordnance, dry stores, and food, and deliver these to client combatant ships underway, making it possible for our naval forces to operate at sea for extended periods. We have modeled CLF operations to evaluate a number of transforming initiatives that simplify its operation while supporting an even larger number of client ships for a greater variety of missions. Our input is an employment schedule for navy battle groups of ships operating worldwide, extending over a planning horizon of 90–180 days. We show how we use optimization to advise how to sustain these ships. We have used this model to evaluate new CLF ship designs, advise what number of ships in a new ship class would be needed, test concepts for forward at‐sea logistics bases in lieu of conventional ports, demonstrate the effects of changes to operating policy, and generally try to show whether and how the CLF can support planned naval operations. Published 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 2008     

Optimizing ship berthing

Ship berthing plans reserve a location for inbound U.S. Navy surface vessels prior to their port entrance, or reassign ships once in port to allow them to complete, in a timely manner, reprovisioning, repair, maintenance, training, and certification tests prior to redeploying for future operational commitments. Each ship requires different services when in port, such as shore power, crane, ordnance, and fuel. Unfortunately, not all services are offered at all piers, and berth shifting is disruptive and expensive: A port operations scheduler strives to reduce unnecessary berth shifts. We present an optimization model for berth planning and demonstrate it for Norfolk Naval Station, which exhibits all the richness of berthing problems the Navy faces. ® 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

国外典型两栖舰作战指挥控制系统分析

美国海军的两栖舰种类全、性能先进,法国海军的“西北风”级两栖攻击舰是世界上较典型的一型两栖舰。本文以美国和法国海军的典型两栖舰为对象,分析了这些舰上可开设的作战指挥机构以及为支持这些作战指挥机构开设而配装的作战指挥控制系统情况,梳理了配装的这些作战指挥控制系统具有的主要功能,从发展方式、装备形态和配置方法等方面探析了国外两栖舰作战指挥控制系统的发展特点与启示,以期为我海军两栖舰作战指挥控制系统发展建设提供借鉴和参考。     

海湾战争与舰船维修

在论述舰船战时雏修保障重要作用的基础上,总结了美海军在海湾战争中实施战前检修及战时抢修的基本活动和经验,提出了我军舰船战时维修保障建设的基本思路及措施。     

An interactive optimization system for bulk-cargo ship scheduling

This article considers the efficient scheduling of a fleet of ships engaged in pickup and delivery of bulk cargoes. Our optimization system begins by generating a menu of candidate schedules for each ship. This menu can contain all feasible solutions, which guarantees we will find an optimal solution or can be heuristically limited to contain only those schedules likely to be in an optimal solution. The problem of choosing from this menu an optimal schedule for the fleet is formulated as a set-packing problem and solved with a dual algorithm. Computational experience is presented based on real data obtained from the Military Sealift Command of the U. S. Navy. Run times for this data were reasonable and solutions were generated with the potential of saving up to about $30 million per year over the manual system currently in place. We also describe a color-graphics interface developed to facilitate interaction with the optimization system.     

A note on a constrained replacement model for ships subject to degradations in utility

In a recent paper, Peter J. Kalman considers a stochastic constrained optimal replacement model using the case of ship replacement as an example. However, the development of the constrained model proposed is not pursued and the optimal interval between replacements is determined in the absence of constraints. Among other things, it is the purpose of the present paper to extend the previous results to develop explicit types of constraints for the case of ship replacement and to determine how the optimal replacement interval may change as a result of these constraints. The constraints are concerned with the state of readiness of each ship in a group of ships. Readiness is assumed to be measured on an ordinal valued utility scale. It is proposed that ordinal valued data on ship combat readiness ratings collected by the Navy may be a useful source of empirical information for a model of the type discussed.     

舰空导弹武器系统信息化发展对策

为打赢未来海上信息化战争,作为舰艇编队盾牌的舰空导弹必须适应信息化发展的要求。主要研究了国外舰空导弹作战体系发展和美军"网络中心战"思想,提出了必须尽快发展具有实战能力的舰载和空中平台装载的舰空导弹协同作战系统,提高舰空导弹的信息化水平,研究相关的信息对抗手段及电子对抗装备,确保舰空导弹在复杂电磁环境下正常工作。     

Schedule design for liner services under vessel speed reduction incentive programs

Gas and particulate emissions from ship transportation have been increasing in recent years. In order to mitigate ship emissions near coastal areas, voluntary vessel speed reduction incentive programs (VSRIPs) were put in place by a number of ports. This paper studies a schedule design problem faced by liner shipping companies under VSRIPs. It proposes a mixed-integer nonlinear mathematical model for the minimization of the total cost, consisting of fuel cost, as well as operating cost, minus dockage refunds. The model balances three determinants, that is, the compliance of VSRIPs, the speed limit (the maximum physical speed of ships and the upper speed limit imposed by VSRIPs), and the limited number of ships. An enumerative algorithm and a piecewise-linear approximation algorithm are developed, based on some properties of the nonlinear model. The efficiency of the proposed algorithms is validated through extensive computational experiments.     

美国舰载标准系列导弹对海军防空导弹发展的影响

美国海军现役的标准导弹是一个庞大的系列,主要型号从标准1一直到标准6,每个主要型号又在不同的时期发展出多种改进型。它不仅是美国海军当前的主力舰空导弹武器装备,还出口到多个国家和地区,是世界上装备量最大、应用最为广泛的舰空导弹系统。本文主要结合标准系列导弹的发展历程,分析了标准系列导弹对世界海军防空导弹装备发展的深远影响。     

多种武器攻击下舰艇火灾危险性评估模型

为了正确评估多种武器攻击下舰艇的火灾危险性,建立了多种武器攻击下舰艇火灾危险性评估模型,并通过实例验证了其合理性.运用该模型能找出舰艇防火设计中的薄弱环节,提出降低舰艇火灾危险性的改进措施,并进行了比较计算,表明所提出的措施是有效的.     

Offensive defence in the Warsaw pact: Reinterpreting military doctrine

This essay examines the key role played by intelligence and deception in the interactive process of British and German preparations in the 1930s for U‐boat warfare. It argues that the Royal Navy (RN) employed the general perception of ASDIC (sonar) as an ‘antidote’ to the submarine to mislead potential foes about the state of its anti‐submarine defences. This British campaign of deception had a discernible impact. Before the outbreak of World War II, the German Navy failed to discover the realities behind ASDIC's image, and this intelligence failure helped to shape U‐boat policy.     

无人舰艇技术及军事应用研究

随着无人飞机的大量研发和广泛应用,无人化智能武器越来越受到世界各国的重视。在海洋争端愈演愈烈的今天,世界军事强国又纷纷把目光投向海上无人作战舰艇,无人舰艇技术得到突飞猛进的发展。近期,美国高调宣布将在中国南海打造以"无人飞机"和"无人舰艇"为骨干的"无人军团",以期全面遏制我海军的行动,加强无人舰艇技术研究已迫在眉睫。从世界无人舰艇发展历程出发,详细阐述了无人舰艇的技术特点和应用前景,重点分析了我军无人舰艇发展应用对策。研究表明,无人舰艇作为未来海航作战中不可忽视的力量,必将走俏未来战场,深度改变战争格局。     

基于云重心理论的单舰防空作战能力评估

单舰防空是水面舰艇编队防空的基础.从水面舰艇单舰防空作战能力的基本内涵出发,按照水面舰艇单舰防空作战能力所包含的3个要素,即防空导弹作战能力、防空火炮作战能力和电子干扰装置作战能力,构建了水面舰艇单舰防空作战能力评估指标体系,针对评估指标的定性定量特性,引入云重心评估法对某水面舰艇单舰防空作战能力进行了评估.结果表明,该模型计算简便、通用性强,为解决军事领域类似问题提供了思路和方法.     

基于神经网络的舰船目标识别研究

为了实现对水下目标的识别,在现有特征提取方法的基础上,提出了一种从DEMON谱线谱和DEMON谱连续谱提取的特征方法,并设计了一个基于BP神经网络和多神经网络分类识别器的舰船目标识别系统。通过对实际舰船噪声目标进行识别,识别效果比较满意。这对舰船目标识别的发展具有一定的参考价值。     

侦察机通过数据链向潜艇传递目标指示的方法探讨

为了使侦察机能更及时、准确、可靠地为潜艇提供目标指示,使之进行导弹超视距攻击,介绍了与潜艇通信有关的地-舰(潜)/空数据链、舰(潜)-舰(潜)数据链及舰(潜)-空数据链。然后探讨了侦察机通过数据链向潜艇传递目标指示的方法,重点研究了潜艇可以实时接收数据链信息和不能实时接收数据链信息的情况下的直接指示法,及侦察机通过岸上指挥所、海上联合编队指挥所中转信息的中转指示法。     

舰空导弹防空体系分析

从舰空导弹武器作战任务的需求出发,分析了舰空导弹体系的组成,给出了评估体系优劣的指标。简要回顾了国外舰空导弹武器的发展,阐述了美、俄、英等国家舰空导弹体系的构成,并展望了舰空导弹发展趋势。     

美国海军水面舰艇导弹防空体系分析

分析了美国海军防空作战思想,在此前提下总结出美海军舰空导弹体系主要的作战任务,说明了美海军典型水面舰艇装备舰空导弹的情况,最后阐述了今后美舰空导弹的发展趋势。     

A generic model of motor‐carrier fuel optimization

Fuel optimizers are decision models (software products) that are increasingly recognized as effective fuel management tools by U.S. truckload carriers. Using the latest price data of every truck stop, these models calculate the optimal fueling schedule for each route that indicates: (i) which truck stop(s) to use, and (ii) how much fuel to buy at the chosen truck stop(s) to minimize the refueling cost. In the current form, however, these models minimize only the fuel cost, and ignore or underestimate other costs that are affected by the models' decision variables. On the basis of the interviews with carrier managers, truck drivers, and fuel‐optimizer vendors, this article proposes a comprehensive model of motor‐carrier fuel optimization that considers all of the costs that are affected by the model's decision variables. Simulation results imply that the proposed model not only attains lower vehicle operating costs than the commercial fuel optimizers, but also gives solutions that are more desirable from the drivers' viewpoint. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2008     

Estimating reliability growth (or deterioration) using time series analysis

In this paper we propose a method for estimating reliability growth (or deterioration) using time series analysis. Our method does not call for the specification of a particular model, and estimates the growth in the presence of periodicity. We illustrate our procedure by considering some binomial failure data generated during the testing of a large system of the U.S. Navy.     

SWATH船纵向运动性能分析

根据切片理论编制了SWATH船在规则波及不规则波中的纵向运动理论预报程序.分析了航速对SWATH船在不规则波中迎浪纵向运动响应的影响规律.并研究了鳍的位置、尺度、组合形式对SWATH船纵向运动性能的影响.结果表明,中高速航行有利于发挥SWATH船优越的耐波性;增大鳍的尺度、使用艏艉组合鳍能提高SWATH船在不规则波中的纵向运动性能.