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Scheduling United States Coast Guard helicopter deployment and maintenance at Clearwater Air Station, Florida

To mitigate the effects of a corrosive operating environment, the Coast Guard has planned an extensive preventative maintenance program for its Sikorsky HH60J helicopters based on helicopter flight time. We construct a mixed integer linear program that schedules the weeks during which each helicopter undergoes maintenance, as well as the weeks during which a helicopter conducts operations eithe...

PROTECT - A Deployed Game Theoretic System for Strategic Security Allocation for the United States Coast Guard

While three deployed applications of game theory for security have recently been reported, we as a community of agents and AI researchers remain in the early stages of these deployments; there is a continuing need to understand the core principles for innovative security applications of game theory. Towards that end, this paper presents PROTECT, a gametheoretic system deployed by the United Sta...

Scheduling Coast Guard District Cutters

United States Coast Guard (USCG) districts schedule cutters 180 feet or less in length to weekly statuses (statuses is USCG jargon for assignments) from which they primarily respond to calls for search and rescue, law enforcement, and pollution control. The First Coast Guard District, based in Boston, has one of the largest scheduling problems: Each of 16 cutters is assigned weekly to one of si...

The Study of a Secret Society: Resistance to Open Discussion of Suicide in the United States Coast Guard