Research Summaries

Back Planning Environmental Cleanup at Closed Army Installations

Fiscal Year 2013
Division Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department Operations Research
Investigator(s) Dell, Robert F.
Sponsor Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management (Army)
Summary The proposed research will provide continuing research, support, and development of an optimization model to prescribe how to allocate funding for environmental cleanup at installations closed or realigned as part of a Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) round. Each year, the Army revises its year-by-year estimate of the multi-year cleanup cost of each site at these BRAC installations. Delaying cleanup is not desirable, but limited available funs make some delays unavoidable. Considering environmental policies, site characteristics and each site's multi-year funding estimate, the Army must decide how to allocate its mutli-year budget for environmental cleanup at these BRAC installations. From 2000 to 2008, the Army used an integer linear program developed by the principal investigator, BAEC (Budget Allocation for Environmental Clean-up), to help guide its decisions. The proposal is to refine BAEC for use again in 2013 and beyond.
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