Fiscal Year	2017
Division	Research & Sponsored Programs
Department	Naval Research Program
Investigator(s)	Lin, Kyle Y.
Sponsor	NPS Naval Research Program (Navy)
Summary	A well-functioning, properly supported private industrial base is vital to maintaining, modernizing, and sustaining the Surface Fleet. Failing to effectively manage port loading has profound impacts to ship maintenance costs and schedules. The Navy contracts out surface ship maintenance availabilities to commercial shipyards by region. Each commercial shipyard, and the overall region, has limited facilities, capabilities, equipment, and workforce. Exceeding any of these parameters or requesting unrealistic schedule duration to execute the work may deter a commercial shipyard from bidding on a surface ship maintenance contract. Furthermore, commercial shipyards are unable to maintain skilled workforce when the demand for surface ship maintenance is low. Comparably, shipyards struggle to meet requirements when demand surges. The Navy's inability to level-load the requirements of a port yield reduced industrial capacity and increased bid prices. This project will study the multitude of disparate variables and constraints coupled with port loading, and develop analytical modeling to optimize port loading. Specifically, this project will demonstrate how to balance required ship maintenance availabilities with finite resources to stabilize the workload for commercial shipyards at the relevant level of detail, and meet the Optimized Fleet Response Plan.
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