Organizational Options For The Future Aerospace Force
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| Total Pages | : 6 |
| Release | : 2000 |
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Addressing the future of aerospace power in the 21st century, F. Whitten Peters, secretary of the Air Force, states that the Air Force "views the flight domains of air and space as a seamless operational medium. The environmental differences between air and space do not separate the employment of aerospace power within them." Critics, however, disagree and have called for a reorganization of the military services through the creation of a separate Space Force. Some members of Congress seek to create a single voice for space, consolidating all Department of Defense (DoD) space activities. Furthermore, these critics say that a consolidated Space Force will improve the visibility of space programs, increase the space budget, eliminate redundancy, and promote the development of space professionals. They also suggest that a new organization will advance space warfighting capabilities and enhance space support to the war fighter. Although well conceived, the pursuit of a new organization dedicated to space is premature. Based on historical precedent of past DoD organizations, space does not meet the test for independence. Reorganization does not address all of the critics' concerns, and in some cases may have the opposite effect. Reorganization will incur significant over expenditures, further stressing limited DoD resources. This article argues a point that may have serious ramifications for DoD's structure: the U.S. military mission in space has not sufficiently evolved to warrant the establishment of a separate military service for space operations. Aerospace integration is the most appropriate model for managing space today. This model allows for the development of space capabilities within an established organization, the Air Force. It also concentrates space spending on people and systems rather than on overhead.
| Author | : National Research Council |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2011-11-17 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 030921520X |
The ability of the United States Air Force (USAF) to keep its aircraft operating at an acceptable operational tempo, in wartime and in peacetime, has been important to the Air Force since its inception. This is a much larger issue for the Air Force today, having effectively been at war for 20 years, with its aircraft becoming increasingly more expensive to operate and maintain and with military budgets certain to further decrease. The enormously complex Air Force weapon system sustainment enterprise is currently constrained on many sides by laws, policies, regulations and procedures, relationships, and organizational issues emanating from Congress, the Department of Defense (DoD), and the Air Force itself. Against the back-drop of these stark realities, the Air Force requested the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies, under the auspices of the Air Force Studies Board to conduct and in-depth assessment of current and future Air Force weapon system sustainment initiatives and recommended future courses of action for consideration by the Air Force. Examination of the U.S. Air Force's Aircraft Sustainment Needs in the Future and Its Strategy to Meet Those Needs addresses the following topics: Assess current sustainment investments, infrastructure, and processes for adequacy in sustaining aging legacy systems and their support equipment. Determine if any modifications in policy are required and, if so, identify them and make recommendations for changes in Air Force regulations, policies, and strategies to accomplish the sustainment goals of the Air Force. Determine if any modifications in technology efforts are required and, if so, identify them and make recommendations regarding the technology efforts that should be pursued because they could make positive impacts on the sustainment of the current and future systems and equipment of the Air Force. Determine if the Air Logistics Centers have the necessary resources (funding, manpower, skill sets, and technologies) and are equipped and organized to sustain legacy systems and equipment and the Air Force of tomorrow. Identify and make recommendations regarding incorporating sustainability into future aircraft designs.
| Author | : Benjamin S. Lambeth |
| Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 1999-04-19 |
| Genre | : Current Events |
| ISBN | : 083303412X |
Assesses the military space challenges facing the Air Force and the nation in light of the findings and recommendations of the Space Commission. The author reviews the Air Force?'s involvement in space since its creation as an independent service in 1947; examines the circumstances that occasioned the commission?'s creation and the conceptual and organizational roadblocks that have impeded a more rapid growth of U.S. military space capability; and enumerates the challenges facing the Air Force with respect to space.
| Author | : Clayton K. S. Chun |
| Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Air power |
| ISBN | : 1428990291 |
Dr. Chun's Aerospace Power in the Twenty-First Century: A Basic Primer is a great start towards understanding the importance of aerospace power and its ability to conduct modern warfare. Aerospace power is continually changing because of new technology, threats, and air and space theories. However, many basic principles about aerospace power have stood the test of time and warfare. This book provides the reader with many of these time-tested ideas for consideration and reflection. Although Aerospace Power in the Twenty-First Century was written for future officers, individuals desiring a broad overview of aerospace power are invited to read, share, and discuss many of the ideas and thoughts presented here. Officers from other services will find that this introduction to air and space forces will give them a good grasp of aerospace power. More experienced aerospace leaders can use this book to revisit many of the issues that have affected air and space forces in the past and that might affect them in the future. Air Force officers will discover that Aerospace Power in the Twenty-First Century is a very timely and reflective resource for their professional libraries.
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| Total Pages | : 38 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Aeronautics, Military |
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| Author | : Thomas Blow |
| Publisher | : Virtualbookworm Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 116 |
| Release | : 2002-09 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9781589392519 |
The 9-11 Syndrome describes a problem Americans have in resolving to prepare against new and different threats before they occur. This syndrome is detailed as a pattern of societal behavior that requires murderous attacks and other elements before effective action can be taken. However, a major future challenge is on the horizon in which the pattern doesn't work, a third challenge on the order of a Pearl Harbor or a 9-11 -- a Pearl Harbor in space that would leave America without access to space, living beneath a virtual laser curtain. Many concrete differences in this type of challenge indicate that unless America breaks with the pattern and takes prior preventive measures, Americans may awaken to learn they have no reasonable options for recovering after-the-fact. If the Syndrome can be overcome, the book describes specific alternatives that will be available; otherwise, Americans may have only the ability to threaten potentially grave terrestrial wars or to do nothing of substance and watch America in terminal decline.
| Author | : Kristin F. Lynch |
| Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0833040197 |
As the Air Force faces manpower end-strength reductions of approximately 40,000 active duty personnel, it becomes more difficult to support the air and space expeditionary force (AEF) construct using current force employment practices. These manpower reductions could leave the active component without sufficient end-strength personnel authorizations to support current operational requirements. The Air National Guard (ANG), on the other hand, will not undergo significant manpower reductions, but it will be affected by the Air Force structure planning under way in support of the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) and Base Realignments and Closure (BRAC) that calls for the retirement of a significant number of legacy aircraft. This could potentially leave the ANG with a large number of highly trained, highly experienced personnel with no aircraft to operate and support.
| Author | : Robert S. Tripp |
| Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society |
| Total Pages | : 154 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780833027634 |
This report addresses support of emerging Air Force employment strategies associated with Expeditionary Aerospace Forces (EAFs). Although much work remains to define these new responsibilities and prepare Air Force units to meet them, it is clear that the EAF concepts will play a central role in the future Air Force. FAF concepts turn on the premise that rapidly tailorable, quickly deployable, immediately employable, and highly effective air and space force packages can serve as a viable substitute for permanent forward presence in both the strategic and the tactical arenas. Success of the EAF will, to a great extent, depend on the effectiveness and efficiency of the Agile Combat Support (ACS) system.
| Author | : Kenneth M. Konicki |
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| Total Pages | : 22 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Organizational change |
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In an era of globalization, shrinking defense dollars and costly weapon systems, the services and defense agencies must increasingly transform into more cost-effective, versatile or lethal organizations. Unfortunately, most organizational transformation efforts are unproductive and abandoned before any appreciable change occurs. Against this pessimistic backdrop, the Air Force's successful transformation to the Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF) warrants examination. This study analyzes the EAF development process to distill seven factors that help explain why the transformation succeeded. It discusses the defense environment that. pressed for change, the EAF visioning process, the role played by senior Air Force leaders, the influence of organizational culture, and the way EAF was permanently embedded in the service. By focusing on the success factors, the study offers the EAF transformation as a potential template to manage future organizational change.
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| Total Pages | : 28 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Astronautics and civilization |
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