Handbook of Military Industrial Engineering

Winner of the 2010 IIE/Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award. In light of increasing economic and international threats, military operations must be examined with a critical eye in terms of process design, management, improvement, and control. Although the Pentagon and militaries around the world have utilized industrial engineering (IE) concepts to achieve this goal for decades, there has been no single resource to bring together IE applications with a focus on improving military operations. Until now.

The Handbook of Military Industrial Engineering is the first compilation of the fundamental tools, principles, and modeling techniques of industrial engineering with specific and direct application to military systems. Globally respected IE experts provide proven strategies that can help any military organization effectively create, adapt, utilize, and deploy resources, tools, and technology.

Topics covered include :

• Supply Chain Management and decision making
• Lean Enterprise Concepts for military operations
• Modeling and optimization
• Economic planning for military systems
• Contingency planning and logistics
• Human factors and ergonomics
• Information management and control

Civilian engineers working on systems analysis, project management, process design, and operations research will also find inspiration and useful ideas on how to effectively apply the concepts covered for non-military uses.

On the battlefield and in business, victory goes to those who utilize their resources most effectively, especially in times of operational crisis. The Handbook of Military Industrial Engineering is a complete reference that will serve as an invaluable resource for those looking to make the operational improvements needed to accomplish the mission at hand.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Editors
Contributors

Part I : Executive Summary
Chapter 1 : Executive Summary: Handbook of Military Industrial Engineering

Part II : Modeling and Optimization
Chapter 2 : Optimizing a Physical Security Configuration Using a Highly Detailed Simulation Model
Chapter 3 : A Time-window Constrained Scheduling of Target Illuminators in Naval Battle-group Antiair Warfare
Chapter 4 : Multiple Criteria Optimization Models for Supplier Selection
Chapter 5 : Probabilistic Modeling for UAV Path Planning in the Presence of Threat Zones
Chapter 6 : Modeling the End-to-End Military Transportation Problem
Chapter 7 : New Advances in Solving the Weapon–Target Assignment Problem
Chapter 8 : Optimization Model for Military Budget Allocation and Capital Rationing
Chapter 9 : An Overview of Meta-heuristics and their use in Military Modeling

Part III : Reliability and Maintenance
Chapter 10 : Recent Advances in Optimal Reliability Allocation
Chapter 11 : Lower Confidence Bounds for System Reliability from Binary Failure Data using Bootstrapping
Chapter 12 : Assessing the Reliability of a Contingency Logistics Network
Chapter 13 : Computing Small-fleet Aircraft Availabilities including Redundancy and Spares
Chapter 14 : High Velocity Maintenance: The Role of Industrial Engineering in USAF Maintenance
Chapter 15 : Beyond Authorized versus Assigned: Aircraft Maintenance Personnel Capacity

Part IV : Contingency Planning and Logistics
Chapter 16 : Joint and Multinational Campaign Planning: A Project/Program Management Approach
Chapter 17 : Mobilizing Marine Corps Officers
Chapter 18 : The Deployment Scheduling Analysis Tool (DSAT)
Chapter 19 : The Deployment Analysis Network Tool Extended (DANTE)
Chapter 20 : Reserve Manufacturing Capacity for Augmenting Contingency
Chapter 21 : Inventory Models for Contingency Operations
Chapter 22 : Planning the Ground Force for Operations in the Post Cold War Era: A Systems Analysis Approach

Part V : Supply Chain and Decision Making
Chapter 23 : Supply Chain Management
Chapter 24 : Hierarchical Dynamic Decision Making

Part VI : Human Factors and Ergonomics
Chapter 25 : Human Factors in Military Systems
Chapter 26 : Digital Warfighter Modeling for Military Applications

Part VII : Management and Process Improvement
Chapter 27 : Achieving Strategic Aims: Moving Toward a Process-based Government Enterprise
Chapter 28 : The Military Performance Team
Chapter 29: How to Initiate Performance Management within the US Army
Chapter 30 : Critical Resource Diagramming and Work Rate Analysis
Chapter 31 : Innovative Techniques and Practical Software Tools for Addressing Military Analytical Problems
Chapter 32 : Countering Forgetting Through Training and Deployment
Chapter 33 : Half-life Theory of Learning Curves
Chapter 34 : Readiness for Organizational Change: The Systematic Development of a Scale

Appendix A
Appendix A-1
Index