Journal of Defense Analytics and Logistics: Volume 6 Issue 1

Supply chain resilience: how autonomous rovers empirically provide relief to constrained flight line maintenance activities

Mary Ashley Stanton, Jason Anderson, John M. Dickens, Lance Champagne

The purpose of this research is to explore the utility of autonomous transport across two independent airframe maintenance operations at a single location.

Pilot development: an empirical mixed-method analysis

Jonathan Slottje, Jason Anderson, John M. Dickens, Adam D. Reiman

Pilot upgrade training is critical to aircraft and passenger safety. This study aims to identify variances in the US Air Force C-130J pilot upgrade training based on geographic…

Transportation service level impact on aircraft availability

Vincent McLean, Adam D. Reiman

Aircraft fail to meet mission capable rate goals due to a lack of supply of aircraft parts in inventory where the aircraft breaks. This triggers an order at the repair location…

Forecasting country conflict using statistical learning methods

Sarah Neumann, Darryl Ahner, Raymond R. Hill

This paper aims to examine whether changing the clustering of countries within a United States Combatant Command (COCOM) area of responsibility promotes improved forecasting of…

Analysis of vertical lift capabilities of US Navy (USN) in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR)

Aruna Apte, Scott Chirgwin, Ken Doerr, Davis Katakura

Vertical lift (VL) assets are vital and expensive resources in humanitarian missions. What and where supplies are needed evolves in short time following a disaster. The purpose of…