Bradley DeBlois

Metrics to Compare Aircraft Operating and Support Costs in the Department of Defense

"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."...

How Can the Mobility Air Forces Better Support Adaptive Basing?

Summary Analysis, Findings, and Recommendations

The U.S. Air Force is exploring adaptive basing (AB) concepts to reduce the vulnerability of U.S. forces to growing air and missile threats and to pre...

How Can the Mobility Air Forces Better Support Adaptive Basing?

Summary Analysis, Findings, and Recommendations

The U.S. Air Force is exploring adaptive basing (AB) concepts to reduce the vulnerability of U.S. forces to growing air and missile threats and to pre...

Supporting Combat Power Projection Away from Fixed Infrastructure

Faced with the challenge of deterring and defeating aggression by the kinds of highly capable adversaries highlighted in the 2018 National Defense Str...

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...

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...

How Can the Mobility Air Forces Better Support Adaptive Basing?

Appendixes A-C, Supporting Analyses of Adaptive Basing, Soft Power, and Historical Case Studies

The U.S. Air Force is exploring adaptive basing to reduce vulnerability and preserve critical combat capabilities in highly contested environments. Th...

Assessment of Deployment- and Mobilization-To-Dwell Policies for Active and Reserve Component Forces

An Examination of Current Policy Using Select U. S. Joint Force Elements

Using case studies of four joint force elements-the Army's armored brigade combat team, the Marine Corps' infantry battalion, the Air Force's KC-135 f...