Author: Ruben Garcia (M.)Publisher:
ISBN: 9781423524472
Category : Airplanes, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
The Capital Investment Planning Aid with Air Planning Update (CIPA APU) is a force structure planning tool that can be used to suggest ship, submarine, and aircraft procurement and retirement schedules over a 30-year horizon, These plans represent over a St Trillion commitment to ensure the Navy stays capable to fulfill its missions Navy long-range force structure planners at the Chief of Naval Operations, Assessment Division (N81), currently manually prepare alternate future ship, submarine, and aircraft procurement and retirement schedules and evaluate these with a contractor-developed spreadsheet tool, This tool, the Extended Planning Annex/Total Obligated Authority (EPA/TOA) model, estimates the financial impact of any complete future plan over a 30- year horizon, While manually preparing such plans, N81 Force Structure Planners must consider annual budget, industrial base, and force structure requirements expressed in terms of the number of platforms terms needed to support a mission With yearly time fidelity, CIPA APU replaces manual planning with optimized budget planning, with, for example, 19 mission areas, 19 ship classes, 58 aircraft types, five ship-production facilities, and three categories of money CIPA APU tracks average aircraft age, expected attrition, and allows planners to specify a platform's terms mission suitability, It also provides expeditious feedback to requests for alternate scenario feasibility and budget impact We demonstrate CIPA APU capabilities using a few realistic scenarios.
