Anna Jean Wirth

Use of Predictive Analytic Tools to Assess Technological Emergences and Acquisition Targets

Using patent filings, the authors analyze the current position of the United States relative to China in selected technology areas of interest to the ...

Building Agile Combat Support Competencies to Enable Evolving Adaptive Basing Concepts

In many potential operating environments, the U.S. Air Force faces adversaries that are increasingly capable of limiting where and how it projects com...

Replicating Threats in Operational Test and Training Infrastructure

The Investment Required to Keep Pace with Adversary Threat Generation

There are concerns that the rate at which China and Russia can field new technologies exceeds the rate at which the U.S. Air Force can replicate those...

Grounded

An Enterprise-wide Look at Department of the Air Force Installation Exposure to Natural Hazards : Implications for Infrastructure Investment Decisionmaking and Continuity of Operations Planning

he authors of this report consider the exposure of Department of the Air Force (DAF) installations to flooding, high winds, and wildfires?hazards that...

Analysis of Global Management of Air Force War Reserve Materiel to Support Operations in Contested and Degraded Environments

Because adversaries have developed capabilities that may restrict or deny U.S. forces' access to a given area, the operational environment of the futu...

Evaluating Alternative Maintenance Manpower Force Structure Concepts for the F-35A

The authors of this report evaluate the costs and benefits of maintenance manpower force structures in the U.S. Air Force that merge maintenance caree...

Developing the Great Lakes National Center of Expertise for Oil Spill Preparedness and Response

An Opportunity to Reduce Risk and Impacts of Future Spills in Freshwater

In 2016, Congress directed the U.S. Coast Guard to establish the Great Lakes National Center of Expertise for Oil Spill Preparedness and Response. Thi...

Fighter Basing Options to Improve Access to Advanced Training Ranges

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) has determined that its fighter pilots do not currently have sufficient access to training ranges with airspace, threat emit...

Acquiring a Mosaic Force

Issues, Options, and Trade-Offs

Mosaic Warfare envisions more fractionated, heterogeneous forces, dynamically composed on tactical timelines. In this report, the authors present insi...