Clients
OTS' clients include:
• Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)
Significant shipyard-scheduling-systems customers have included the Office of Naval
Research, the US Navy's Virginia Submarine Program Office, and the Naval Sea Systems
Command Logistics, Maintenance and Industrial Operations Directorate (NAVSEA 04).
NAVSEA 04 is a current OTS customer. Working with Norfolk Naval Shipyard, we are
rescheduling a completed carrier repair project to demonstrate ARGOS' ability to
provide savings to the Navy while also managing their constraints and business rules.
• Air Mobility Command (AMC)
OTS has built a system for the USAF's Air Mobility Command (AMC) that finds optimal
aircraft routes, taking into account weather as well as the relevant aviation rules.
WARP, our Worldwide Aeronautical Route Planner, enables aircraft to use the minimal
amount of fuel in flight. WARP can quickly find optimal flight paths using actual
weather and performance data for various aircraft, saving considerably on fuel use.
WARP is currently used by AMC to route the bulk of their flights, generating estimated
fuel savings of 1-2% over their previous optimized-routing technology. Since AMC burns
750 million gallons of jet fuel a year, this results in $15-$30M in annual savings.
• Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
Both military and commercial carriers need to route multiple aircraft efficiently
in the face of many conflicting requirements. Since resources are usually limited,
this often leads to global resource-allocation conflicts. OTS has developed DWARP,
the Distributed Worldwide Aeronautical Route Planner, for the US Air Force Research
Laboratory as a prototype decision support tool that makes flight planning more
effective in an environment where resources must be shared across multiple sorties.
The system uses a distributed processing model to compare and contrast multiple
WARP-generated flight plans and choose the best.
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