James A. Leftwich

Estimating Air Force Deployment Requirements for Lean Force Packages

A Methodology and Decision Support Tool Prototype

This report describes a methodology and prototype tool--the Lean Strategic Tool for the Analysis of Required Transportation (Lean-START)--that can exp...

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...

Air Force Capability Development Planning

Analytical Methods to Support Investment Decisions

RAND Project AIR FORCE examines analytical methods for Air Force capability development planning under conditions of deep uncertainty....

Building Agile Combat Support Competencies to Enable Evolving Adaptive Basing Concepts

RAND researchers review the motivations for adaptive basing, describe a footprint model used for estimating its implications for Agile Combat Support ...

Advancing Combat Support to Sustain Agile Combat Employment Concepts

Integrating Global, Theater, and Unit Capabilities to Improve Support to a High-End Fight

The focus on efficiency in combatant command combat operations has driven peacetime logistics and sustainment processes to be more centralized in the ...

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

In this report, RAND researchers evaluate management approaches and global prepositioning strategies for war reserve materiel, which may help mitigate...

Support to the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center

Enabling AFIMSC's Role in Agile Combat Support Planning, Execution, Monitoring, and Control

"The U.S. Air Force is in the midst of transforming the way agile combat support (ACS) is managed to support training, steady state operations, and co...

Proposed Analytical Products for the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability

Developing and Presenting Options for Future Force Design and Capability Development

RAND Project Air Force assisted the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability (AFWIC) in conceptualizing analytical and other products to support c...