Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces

Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces
Author: Don Snyder
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780833035677

The Air Force's transition from a threat-based to a capabilities-based planning posture suggests the need to calculate swiftly the manpower and equipment required to generate those capabilities. This book outlines just such a methodology for determining deployment requirements. The methodology employs a prototype research tool--the Strategic Tool for the Analysis of Required Transportation (START)--which generates lists of capability units required to support a user-specified operation. The appendix serves as a user's guide to the START program

Estimating Air Force Deployment Requirements for Lean Force Packages

Estimating Air Force Deployment Requirements for Lean Force Packages
Author: Patrick Mills
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780833097545

This report describes a methodology and prototype tool--the Lean Strategic Tool for the Analysis of Required Transportation (Lean-START)--that can explore trade-offs among capability (or risk), speed, and cost to create force packages for deployment.

Supporting Space and Expeditionary Forces

Supporting Space and Expeditionary Forces
Author: Don Snyder
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2004
Genre: Airlift, Military
ISBN:

Annotation. The Air Force's transition from a threat-based to a capabilities-based planning posture suggests the need to calculate swiftly the manpower and equipment required to generate those capabilities. This book outlines just such a methodology for determining deployment requirements. The methodology employs a prototype research tool--the Strategic Tool for the Analysis of Required Transportation (START)--which generates lists of capability units required to support a user-specified operation. The appendix serves as a user's guide to the START program.

Policy and Methodology to Incorporate Wartime Plans Into Total U.S. Air Force Manpower Requirements

Policy and Methodology to Incorporate Wartime Plans Into Total U.S. Air Force Manpower Requirements
Author: Manuel J. Carrillo
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780833035813

The Air Force is reexamining how it plans its manpower resources, especially for scenarios less extensive than the traditional two major theater wars. This report presents and demonstrates a methodology RAND developed to assist in this process, drawing lessons from the recent Total Force Assessment. Among the lessons are the need to beware of double-counting and the wisdom of improving quality control, accountability, and auditing trails.

A Framework for Enhancing Airlift Planning and Execution Capabilities Within the Joint Expeditionary Movement System

A Framework for Enhancing Airlift Planning and Execution Capabilities Within the Joint Expeditionary Movement System
Author: Robert S. Tripp
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 0833038338

Recent operations have shed light on shortfalls in Air Force intratheater airlift. Using an expanded strategies-to-tasks framework, the authors assess current intratheater airlift processes, organizations, doctrine, training, and systems. This report catalogues identified shortfalls and recommends options for improving the Theater Distribution System. The authors recommend separation of supply, demand, and integrator roles and adoption of a closed-loop planning and execution process.

Assessing Capabilities and Risks in Air Force Programming

Assessing Capabilities and Risks in Air Force Programming
Author: Don Snyder
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The goal of the defense budget is to deliver a portfolio of capabilities to meet a spectrum of uncertain future security environments. Despite progress in recent U.S. Air Force capabilities-based programming efforts, many limitations persist, and there are many disconnects between capability assessments and programming. To help mitigate these limitations, the findings presented here reexamine capabilities-based programming by introducing a new definition of capability metrics and a new set of algorithms for building and evaluating budgeting allocations. The capability metrics relate resources to operational-level activities in national plans, apply across a range of programs, and conform to programming boundaries. The algorithms provide the programmer with a means to quantitatively and reproducibly develop programming options in light of an uncertain future security environment, serving as a means to express capabilities and risks of resource allocations in terms of national planning objectives.

Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces

Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces
Author: Ronald G. McGarvey
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2008
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0833042904

This monograph describes the new modeling approach developed to construct the CONUS CIRF network designs and presents detailed results from the specific analyses. The analyses are based on F-15, F-16, and A-10 aircraft force structure bed-downs resulting from the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission's 2005 recommendations. For the three aircraft types, all CONUS active duty bases, Air National Guard (ANG) installations, and Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) installations possessing combat-coded or training aircraft, along with some Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) bases, were used as locations to be supported by CIRF networks. CIRF network designs were constructed for aircraft engines (TF34, F100, F110), electronic warfare (EW) pods (ALQ-131, ALQ-184), Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night (LANTIRN) navigation (AN/AAQ-13) and targeting pods (AAQ-14s), and F-15 avionics line replaceable units (LRUs). This set of commodities was chosen because previous analyses (many of which were performed at RAND) had suggested that they afforded the largest potential savings from consolidated maintenance. Tasking scenarios considered in these analyses included normal peacetime training and readiness, Air and Space Expeditionary Force (AEF) deployment taskings, and major regional conflict (MRC) taskings.