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Integrating Prediction, Responsiveness, and Control Capabilities
This monograph discusses U.S. Air Force progress toward implementing sense and respond logistics or, as defined more broadly, sense and respond combat...
Recent operations have shed light on shortfalls in Air Force intratheater airlift. Using an expanded strategies-to-tasks framework, the authors assess...
RAND developed a methodology to help understand and explain the differences between U.S. Air National Guard and active component aircraft maintenance ...
VANGUARD is the Air National Guard (ANG) long-range transformation program. It calls for the ANG to evaluate new concepts, prepare for new missions, a...
Its Relevance and Application to National-level Sustainment Planning
Improving the Balance Between Current and Future Capabilities
Space assets are vital to the economic, social, and military interests of the United States, but these interests can conflict with one another, especi...
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 ...
This report describes a concept of operations for a decision support system intended to assist field- and wholesale-level logisticians to prioritize r...
Conclusions from Analysis of C-130, F-16 and KC-135 Fleets
For more than 15 years, the U.S. Air Force has been continually engaged in deployed operations in Southwest Asia and in other locations. Recent Office...
Lessons from Operation Enduring Freedom
Presents an analysis of Air Force combat support experiences associated with Operation Enduring Freedom and compares these experiences with those asso...
Class IX Sustainment Planning
This report describes the underlying motivation, characteristics, and possible applications of the VISION (Visibility of Support Options) Assessment S...
Uses a companion architecture to identify and describe where shortfalls exist between current agile combat support (ACS) processes and the vision for ...
A Concept for Evolving the Agile Combat Support/mobility System of the Future
The Air Force has begun to reorganize into an Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF). This report summarizes RAND work to date on designing and evaluatin...
Reflections on RAND's Role in the Evolution of Air Force Logistics Thought and Practice
This report documents the history of the interactions between RAND Corporation logistics researchers and Air Force leaders over more than 40 years to ...
Because adversaries have developed capabilities that may restrict or deny U.S. forces' access to a given area, the operational environment of the futu...
"Today's defense environment is particularly challenging because (1) significant portions of the force are continuously engaged in a variety of operat...
"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...
An Integrated Strategic Agile Combat Support Planning Framework
This report addresses support of emerging Air Force employment strategies associated with Expeditionary Aerospace Forces (EAFs). Although much work re...
This document presents an architecture that describes a TO-BE vision for integrating enhanced ACS processes into Air Force command and control (C2) as...
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...
Documents the modeling framework Project AIR FORCE developed to evaluate combat support requirements, basing posture vulnerabilities, operational resi...
Final Report
A congressionally mandated review of the proposed restructuring of Air Force Materiel Command examined the proposal and its effect on life-cycle manag...