Date of Award
4-3-2017
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Department
Mathematics
First Advisor
Shandelle Henson
Abstract
In 2014, the federal government spent nearly half a trillion dollars on contractor projects. The Department of Defense wants to develop an algorithm to optimize the acquisition of new technologies. This project makes us of game theory, probability and statistics, non-linear programming and mathematical models to model negotiations between governmental agencies and private contractors. If focuses on generating the optimum solution and its corresponding acquisition strategy for different contract types. This project culminates in a collection of MATLAB (MathWorks) programs and the newly developed strategy shows strong convergence to Nash equilibrium values and successful selection of optimum solutions.
Recommended Citation
Marshall, Karel, "War Gaming Applications For Achieving Optimum Acquisition Of Future Space" (2017). Honors Theses. 164.
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/164/
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/honors/164
Subject Area
United States. Department of Defense--Procurement; Game theory; MATLAB
Presentation Record URL
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/honors-undergraduate-poster-symposium/2017/honors-thesis/10/
Creative Commons License
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DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/164/