Selecting Optimal Control Portfolios to Improve Army Aviation Safety

<p>The Army is concerned with maintaining safe operations in light of increasing operational demands. The Army Safety Center`s goal as approved by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisitions and Technology is to reduce accident severity by 50% in the next decade. The Safety Center chartered the Aviation Safety Investment Strategy Team to evaluate accidents to determine their hazards or contributing conditions and their controls or reduction measures. This study specifically targets these force-modernized aircraft: AH-64 Apache CH/MH-47 Chinook OH-58D Kiowa Warrior and UH-60 Black Hawk. This research takes a look at selecting the best portfolios of controls to minimize aviation accident severity. The accidents are simulated using Monte Carlo techniques. Value-Focused Thinking techniques evaluate the severity of accidents generated by the simulation. The optimization is approached using a knapsack heuristic. Insights into selecting the best sets of controls aid decision makers when determining the portfolios with the best Percent Severity Reduction given budget considerations.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>