Fiscal Year	2014
Division	Graduate School of Business & Public Policy
Department	Graduate School of Business & Public Policy
Investigator(s)	Apte, Aruna U.
Sponsor	Office of Naval Research (Navy)
Summary	This project consists of two approaches. One is Self-Sufficient Warfighter Analysis and second studies the Expeditionary Environment Characterization and Resource Analysis. First consists of developing a standard practical quantitative definition of what it means for a warfighter to be self-sufficient, whether in terms of an individual resource such as water or energy, or in terms of an aggregate measure. There are several possible interpretations of self-sufficiency, as it may be viewed in the context of time, capability, risks, or requirements. The project will build on this preliminary work by studying the tradeoffs associated with self-sufficiency. This will involve examining the opportunity costs associated with decisions to enhance self-sufficiency; these opportunity costs also may be expressed in terms of time, capability, risk, or requirements. In the second we model self-sufficiency as a function of granularity, as moderated by heterogeneity in logistics capability and resource interdependence. We will develop a mathematical model of this relationship, and calibrate the model with sample data (as available) from Marine Expeditionary Units.
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