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Resource Allocation Planning and Optimization Routine (RAPTOR)

Almost all program managers and decision makers are faced with more requirements than funding. NewVectors has been under contract to Program Manager, Combat Ammunition Systems (PM CAS), to develop a tool to address this problem. Although associated with mortar and artillery ammunition, fuses, and propellants, NewVectors’ Resource Allocation Planning and Optimization Routine (RAPTOR) can be applied to any funding problem.

RAPTOR uses a nonlinear optimization algorithm to find the resource allocation scheme that minimizes the weighted sum of the squared differences between the Army’s acquisition goals for each DODAC (stockpile requirements plus training and operational needs) and the levels that are actually achievable, given all the budgetary, technological, industrial base, and other constraints under which PM CAS must operate.

Linked to the appropriate Army databases, RAPTOR bases its calculations on munitions-characterizing data such as budget and cost values, inventory levels, production and demilitarization plans, war reserve and training requirements, planned and on-going Research and Development (R&D) activity for the planning period, as well as on industrial base and production limitations and the effects of R&D efforts on cost, lethality, and producibility. NewVectors’ RAPTOR capability can be applied to any resource optimization issue.