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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Weed, Joshua C. Effective capital provision within government. Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corp., 2005 (OCoLC)607673014 Online version: Weed, Joshua C. Effective capital provision within government. Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corp., 2005 (OCoLC)607863861 |
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Material Type: | Thesis/dissertation, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joshua C Weed; Pardee Rand Graduate School.; Project Air Force (U.S.); Rand Corporation. |
OCLC Number: | 60555509 |
Notes: | "The research was conducted within the Manpower, Personnel, and Training Program of the RAND Corporation's Project AIR FORCE (PAF)."--Page iii. |
Description: | xxiv, 221 pages : charts ; 28 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction -- The Air Force lodging program -- Alternative approaches for determining facility levels -- Review of inventory-theory literature -- An inventory simulation model -- Efficient facility capacity -- The model as a tool for policy analysis: proof of concept -- Findings and conclusions. |
Series Title: | Dissertation (Pardee Rand Graduate School), RGSD-190. |
Responsibility: | Joshua C. Weed. |
More information: |
Abstract:
This study proposes a new, more efficient way to address a central policy problem facing the U.S. Air Force: How much capital infrastructure should the Air Force own rather than lease through other providers? The study looks specifically at an Air Force base lodging operation and evaluates policies for efficient government-owned capacity levels and contract-quarters utilization. The Air Force currently spends $4 million per year at Maxwell Air Force Base to house students in local hotels because of insufficient on-base capacity. Meanwhile, annual on-base occupancy figures reveal slack capacity in on-base facilities of approximately 20 percent. This dissertation examines how Air Force decision makers should evaluate contract-quarters usage versus occupancy rates to determine the on-base capacity that minimizes total cost. The analysis illustrates why current government metrics and methodologies are inadequate and provides an analytic approach suitable for capacity-sizing decisions in any variable-demand system. The author develops an inventory simulation model that determines the least-cost inventory (capacity) and allows decision makers to evaluate "what-if" policy scenarios that affect lodging.
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