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A Model To Forecast Civilian Personnel Inventory For The National Security Agency, Stephen G. Hoffman
A Model To Forecast Civilian Personnel Inventory For The National Security Agency, Stephen G. Hoffman
Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this thesis is to develop a model to forecast civilian personnel inventory for the National Security Agency (NSA). Accurate prediction of personnel inventories will help the NSA with issues ranging from hiring, promotion, and ethnic/gender diversity to the development of cost-effective force reduction programs. The model must be capable of producing multiple-year forecasts of the NSA's civilian force structure with a minimum fidelity level that allows for break-out by years-of-service, career field, and grade. Historical data will be utilized to estimate logistic regression parameters that will compose the internal workings of the model. The JMP statistical software …
The Application Of A Readiness-Based Sparing Model To Foreign Military Sales, Karen M. Klinger
The Application Of A Readiness-Based Sparing Model To Foreign Military Sales, Karen M. Klinger
Theses and Dissertations
Current Foreign Military Sales FMS models provide stock levels that result in a very low system availability or a funding requirement that exceeds the overall budget. The purpose of this research was to determine if an inventory model exists that can be used in FMS reparable sparing to provide a more efficient and economical inventory purchase. The Aircraft Sustainability Model ASM is such a model, providing the most aircraft availability possible from a given inventory investment by computing the optimal number of spare parts to buy for each item. FMS data was obtained from two sources - the International Data …