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RAND developed a methodology to help understand and explain the differences between U.S. Air National Guard and active component aircraft maintenance ...
A Methodology for Evaluating Potential Air National Guard Mission Assignments
As the Air Force faces manpower end-strength reductions of approximately 40,000 active duty personnel, it becomes more difficult to support the air an...
An Assessment of Initial Implementations in Air Force Exercises
Operations in Serbia in 1999 revealed issues with combat support execution planning and control. RAND Project Air Force (PAF) analyzed the then-curren...
First Steps
Describes a potential common operating system (COP) for the Air Force materiel sustainment system (MSS). The authors first develop a COP based on the ...
Uses a companion architecture to identify and describe where shortfalls exist between current agile combat support (ACS) processes and the vision for ...
Potential Courses of Action
The authors set out to identify ways to enable the airfield operations (AO) career fields to respond to the needs created by the Dynamic Force Employm...
The U.S. Air Force asked RAND Project AIR FORCE to examine how tactics, techniques, and procedures should change to improve an airman's ability to det...
Identifying Metrics for Core Dimensions
The authors explore a more expansive approach to readiness assessments that goes beyond the narrow lens of operational readiness and considers a broad...
Presents an analysis of AIr Force combat support experiences associated with the year of planning and the first month of combat in support of Operatio...
This report describes new concepts for U.S. Air Force combat support command and control while under persistent multi-domain attack during a high-end ...
Application to Future Logistics Concepts
Researchers present a Future Logistics Concept Assessment Framework, which is a disciplined, systematic way to assess proposed future logistics concep...
Airfield operations (AO) officer and enlisted career fields provide air traffic control; airfield management; and radar, airfield, and weather systems...
Because adversaries have developed capabilities that may restrict or deny U.S. forces' access to a given area, the operational environment of the futu...
Improving Wing-level Logistics
Describes a review conducted as a joint effort by the U.S. Air Force and the RAND Corporation to develop improvement options for mitigating wing-level...
Guidance for Where to Focus Mitigation Efforts
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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 ...
"The focus of this analysis is on how enhanced ACS processes can be implemented and integrated into the Air Force and Joint command and control (C2) e...
This document presents an architecture that describes a TO-BE vision for integrating enhanced ACS processes into Air Force command and control (C2) as...
Competing Approaches to Inform the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System
Describes and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of several analytic approaches for linking infrastructure resources to readiness and for articulat...
Documents the modeling framework Project AIR FORCE developed to evaluate combat support requirements, basing posture vulnerabilities, operational resi...