Product Description: Describes a potential common operating system (COP) for the Air Force materiel sustainment system (MSS). The authors first develop a COP based on the principles of effectsbased measures, schwerpunkt (organizational focus), decision rights, and a nonmarket economic framework, then they apply the COP to depotlevel reparable component sustainment to illustrate how the COP would improve overall MSS efficiency and responsiveness...read more

Product Description: RAND developed a methodology to help understand and explain the differences between U.S. Air National Guard and active component aircraft maintenance productivity. This research focuses on maintenance options for supporting associate units, where the goal of the associate unit is to produce trained pilots in the most efficient manner possible...read more

Product Description: Space assets are vital to the economic, social, and military interests of the United State, but these interests can conflict with one another, especially when it comes to space system sustainment. The authors worked with Air Force Space Command to develop a sustainment philosophy based on separation of demand, supply, and integrator processes and clear definition of responsibilities, using specific systems and units for illustration...read more

Product Description: A worldwide combat support basing architecture is one of the major pillars for achieving the U.S. Air Force's goals of global strike and persistent dominance. The authors develop an analytic framework and model for evaluating options for overseas combat support basing and present a feasible set of candidate locations for consideration by the Air Force...read more

Product Description: Anticipating varied and fast-breaking regional crises in the future, the United States is reassessing how it prepares, maintains, and employs its military forces. This research looks at the current operational architecture for incorporating CSC2 and proposes an expanded version of an architecture for the future...read more

Product Description: Evaluates options for Air National Guard combat support and reachback missions in four Air Force mission areas to support the Air and Space Expeditionary Force, investigates transformational opportunities for the ANG that would add the most value in achieving the desired operational effects, and considers how changes in unit and aboveunit policies are likely to affect Total Force capabilities...read more

Product Description: How can the Air Force improve the planning and execution activities associated with developing intratheater airlift operations witin the military joint end to end miltomodal movement system?

Product Description: Evaluates global forward support locations for storing war reserve material and presents a framework for evaluating FSL options.

Product Description: Presents an analysis of AIr Force combat support experiences associated with the year of planning and the first month of combat in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and compares these experiences with those associated with Aoperation Allied Force and the first 100 days of Operation Enduring Freedom...read more

Product Description: This study examines a reconfiguration of the current U.S. Air Force support system that would implement maintenance forward support locations to consolidate intermediate maintenance near the theater of operations. Such locations are known as Centralized Intermediate Repair Facilities, or CIRFs...read more

Product Description: Presents an analysis of Air Force combat support experiences assocaited with operation Enduring Freedom and compares these experiences with those associated with operation Allied Forces to determine similarities and applicability of lessons across experiences.

Product Description: Over the past three years in conjucntion with the Air Force, RAND has studied options for configuring an Air Force Agile Combat Support (ACS) system that would enable the achievement of Expeditionary Aerospace Force operational goals...read more

Product Description: The goal of the Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF) concept is to rely on rapidly deployable, immediately employable, highly effective and flexible air and space packages to flexibly serve the strategic role that a permanent forward presence formerly played in deterring and quickly responding to aggression...read more

Product Description: The Air Force is reorganizing into an Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF) with the goal of replacing the forward presence of aerospace power with a force that can deploy quickly in a crisis, commence operations immediately upon arrival, and sustain operations as appropriate.

Product Description: A key challenge facing the future Air Force is how to nearly continuously deploy relatively small-scale forces for peacekeeping and humanitarian relief missions while maintaining the capability to win major theater wars. In response to this challenge, the Air Force has developed the concept of an Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF) to deal with the range of expected missions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)