This is a NAVAL
POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL
MONTEREY CA report
procured by the
Pentagon and made
available for public
release It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A261263. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: We develop a mixed integer non-linear program, MS-LOCAL, to help the Department of Defense decide where to locate recruiting stations and how to allocate recruiters to those stations. The goal of MS-LOCAL is to obtain the greatest number of enlisted recruits for the lowest possible cost. We solve MS- LOCAL in two forms: one that minimizes cost subject to production goals (in number of recruits), and a second that maximizes production subject to a budget constraint We illustrate MS-LOCAL with data from the Jacksonville, Denver, and Boston metropolitan areas using a production function recently developed for all zip codes in the United States; the production function estimates recruits obtained for given recruiting stations and recruiter allocations. Our results show that a combination of single-service and joint-service stations is most effective in minimizing cost and maximizing production. Compared to the current configurations of stations and recruiters in the metropolitan areas, MS-LOCAL estimates that cost savings of 10-32% or production increases of 2-8% are possible..
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