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Book Synopsis An Evolving Agile Combat Support System by :
Download or read book An Evolving Agile Combat Support System written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF) operations requires rethinking of many Air Force functions, including the combat support system. To a large extent, EAF success depends on turning the current support system into one that is much more agile. In recognition of this, the U.S. Air Force has begun transforming the current support system into an Agile Combat Support (ACS) system. It has designated the ACS system as one of six essential core competencies for global engagement.
Book Synopsis A Framework for Evolving Agile Combat Support Concepts to Meet NATO Reaction Air Force Operational Requirements by :
Download or read book A Framework for Evolving Agile Combat Support Concepts to Meet NATO Reaction Air Force Operational Requirements written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents a framework that could be used in evolving the Agile Combat Support (ACS) and mobility systems of participating partners to meet the operational needs of the NATO Reaction Air Force (RAF). Based on our experience in evaluating ACS/mobility options to meet the United States Air Force Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF) operational goals, we suggest that the NATO RAF concept may require a rethinking of the entire combat support system, as was the case for the USAF EAF, and that subsequently the strategic planning framework for combat support should also be re- examined and enhanced. To a large degree future force projection and resultant combat capability will be dependent upon strategic choices concerning combat support system design that will be made in the near future. This paper explores a planning framework that is based on an integrated set of models and a process for making such strategic decisions. Some USAF EAF results of analyses based on using this framework are presented as they may be relevant for the NATO RAF. The paper also discusses some impediments in using this framework and evolving an effective coalition ACS system.
Book Synopsis A Framework for Evolving Agile Combat Support Concepts to Meet NATO Reaction Air Force Operational Requirements by : Robert S. Tripp
Download or read book A Framework for Evolving Agile Combat Support Concepts to Meet NATO Reaction Air Force Operational Requirements written by Robert S. Tripp and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents a framework that could be used in evolving the Agile Combat Support (ACS) and mobility systems of participating partners to meet the operational needs of the NATO Reaction Air Force (RAF). Based on our experience in evaluating ACS/mobility options to meet the United States Air Force Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF) operational goals, we suggest that the NATO RAF concept may require a rethinking of the entire combat support system, as was the case for the USAF EAF, and that subsequently the strategic planning framework for combat support should also be re- examined and enhanced. To a large degree future force projection and resultant combat capability will be dependent upon strategic choices concerning combat support system design that will be made in the near future. This paper explores a planning framework that is based on an integrated set of models and a process for making such strategic decisions. Some USAF EAF results of analyses based on using this framework are presented as they may be relevant for the NATO RAF. The paper also discusses some impediments in using this framework and evolving an effective coalition ACS system.
Book Synopsis Supporting Expeditionary Aerospace Forces by : Robert S. Tripp
Download or read book Supporting Expeditionary Aerospace Forces written by Robert S. Tripp and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Air Force has begun to reorganize into an Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF). This report summarizes RAND work to date on designing and evaluating the future agile combat system and mobility system needed to meet EAF operational objectives.
Download or read book Combat Support... written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Building Agile Combat Support Competencies to Enable Evolving Adaptive Basing Concepts by : Patrick Mills
Download or read book Building Agile Combat Support Competencies to Enable Evolving Adaptive Basing Concepts written by Patrick Mills and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many potential operating environments, the U.S. Air Force faces adversaries that are increasingly capable of limiting where and how it projects combat power. Whether the environments are called anti-access/area denial environments or contested, degraded, and operationally limited (CDO) environments, they feature adversaries with larger numbers of more-precise missiles that have further reach than before and that threaten traditional U.S. air bases like never before. To persevere in CDO environments, the Air Force and regional warfighting commanders are exploring a variety of alternative force deployment and employment concepts under an umbrella initiative called adaptive basing (AB). Upon surveying the variety of concepts categorized as part of AB, the authors found that all of them-adaptive or not-can be characterized as survival strategies. Thus, AB is less about increasing the adaptiveness of aircraft and air forces than it is about extending their survivability through strategies that are both traditional and adaptive. In this report, RAND researchers review the motivations for AB, describe a footprint model used for estimating the AB implications for Agile Combat Support (ACS), estimate the ACS requirements to perform three fundamental competencies that can enable AB concepts, consider the obstacles to supporting those requirements, and discuss the implications and recommendations for the ACS community and the Air Force at large. Ultimately, it will take a more-concerted, deliberate, and organized effort to flesh out and refine AB concepts into useable warfighting tools. Some concepts might be discarded for reasons of feasibility, cost, or effectiveness, but if the threats perceived today are credible, AB ought to be tested and found wanting rather than declared to be too difficult without sufficient investigation.
Download or read book Air Force Journal of Logistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Strategic Appraisal by : Zalmay Khalilzad
Download or read book Strategic Appraisal written by Zalmay Khalilzad and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2002-07-31 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change--in international relations, in technology, and in society as a whole--has become the idiom of our age. One example of these changes has been an increasing recognition of the value of air and space assets for handling nearly every contingency from disaster relief to war and, onsequently, increasing demand for such assets. These developments have created both challenges and opportunities for the U.S. Air Force. This, the fourth volume in the Strategic Appraisal series, draws on the expertise of researchers from across RAND to explore both the challenges and opportunities that the U.S. Air Force faces as it strives to support the nation's interests in a challenging technological and security environment.Contributors examine the changing roles of air and space forces in U.S.national security strategy, the implications of new systems and technologiesfor military operations, and the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. securitystrategy. Contributors also discuss the status of major modernizationefforts within the Air Force, and the bill of health of the Air Force, asmeasured by its readiness to undertake its missions both today and in thefuture.
Book Synopsis "Sense and Respond" Capabilities Can Make the Air Force Combat Support System More Agile by :
Download or read book "Sense and Respond" Capabilities Can Make the Air Force Combat Support System More Agile written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research brief summarizes a promising approach -- sense and respond combat support -- to distributing materiel to fielded forces as they need them and to adapting quickly to changing operational needs.
Book Synopsis Balancing Agile Combat Support Manpower to Better Meet the Future Security Environment by : Patrick Mills
Download or read book Balancing Agile Combat Support Manpower to Better Meet the Future Security Environment written by Patrick Mills and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses an enterprise-oriented approach to assess the capacity of the current agile combat support (ACS) manpower mix to support expeditionary operations and assesses the costs and capacity of several rebalanced mixes.
Book Synopsis Supporting Expeditionary Aerospace Forces by :
Download or read book Supporting Expeditionary Aerospace Forces written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report, one of a series of RAND publications that address Agile Combat Support (ACS) issues in implementing the Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF), summarizes RAND work to date on designing and evaluating the future ACS and mobility system that is needed to meet EAF operational objectives. Design decisions involve tradeoffs among system characteristics such as those between employment timelines and costs. This report presents a vision of the future ACS/mobility system and addresses several options for meeting munitions, War Reserve Materiel (WRM), fuel, maintenance, and other support resource requirements needed for the variety of potential and uncertain scenarios that the Air Force may face. The report provides examples of how support options change with alternative employment scenarios and support technology, policies, and practices. Our goal is to foster discussion about a vision of the future ACS and mobility system that is robust in a number of potential scenarios. Developing such a vision is a complex undertaking requiring a formal integrated ACS and mobility planning process, including continuous review of the ability of ACS and mobility postures to meet defense needs as they evolve. This report also presents a framework for addressing these planning needs.
Book Synopsis Air Force journal of logistics: vol24_no1 by :
Download or read book Air Force journal of logistics: vol24_no1 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Evaluation of Options for Overseas Combat Support Basing by : Mahyar A. Amouzegar
Download or read book Evaluation of Options for Overseas Combat Support Basing written by Mahyar A. Amouzegar and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability of U.S. forces to provide swift and tailored responses to a multitude of threats across the globe is a crucial component of security in today's complex political environment. To realize its goals of global strike and persistent dominance, it is vital that the Air Force support the warfighter seamlessly and efficiently in all phases of deployment, employment, and redeployment. One of the major pillars for achieving these objectives is a global combat support basing architecture. This report presents an analytic framework and model for evaluating options for overseas combat support basing. The authors develop several sets of deployment scenarios to measure the effect of timing, location, and intensity of operational requirements on combat support and to account for the inherent uncertainties in future planning. They apply political, geographical, and vulnerability constraints to the model and present a feasible set of candidate locations for consideration by the Air Force.
Book Synopsis A Framework for Enhancing Airlift Planning and Execution Capabilities Within the Joint Expeditionary Movement System by : Robert S. Tripp
Download or read book A Framework for Enhancing Airlift Planning and Execution Capabilities Within the Joint Expeditionary Movement System written by Robert S. Tripp and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent operations have shed light on shortfalls in Air Force intratheater airlift. Using an expanded strategies-to-tasks framework, the authors assess current intratheater airlift processes, organizations, doctrine, training, and systems. This report catalogues identified shortfalls and recommends options for improving the Theater Distribution System. The authors recommend separation of supply, demand, and integrator roles and adoption of a closed-loop planning and execution process.
Download or read book Logistics and Warfighting written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Advancing Combat Support to Sustain Agile Combat Employment Concepts by : James Leftwich
Download or read book Advancing Combat Support to Sustain Agile Combat Employment Concepts written by James Leftwich and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus on efficiency in combatant command combat operations has driven peacetime logistics and sustainment processes to be more centralized in the U.S. Air Force and, in some cases, at the U.S. Department of Defense level. In some instances, the centralization placed decision authorities associated with the allocation and reallocation of resources outside the control of warfighting commands. Additionally, the move toward efficiency has created a lean supply chain that relies on assured transportation to rapidly deliver resources where needed based on demand signals from end-users. Capable adversaries, however, can disrupt the supply chain by degrading communications and limiting access to forward locations. As Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) pursues evolving operational concepts of employment designed to improve operational resiliency, questions about the fragility of the combat support (CS) enterprise persist. In light of these questions, Headquarters PACAF asked RAND Project AIR FORCE to take a holistic view of the CS enterprise, including base, theater, and global resources, and explore different concepts that could be integrated in theater sustainment plans to support operations. In this report, the authors decompose the CS enterprise from decision authority and resource characteristic perspectives and propose a framework that PACAF can use to consider the necessary elements of the CS enterprise for operating in a hybrid push-pull system as a means to mitigate uncertainty and adversary actions that challenge logistics support. The report also presents the cost of various resource buffer strategies for spare parts.
Book Synopsis Space Command Sustainment Review by : Robert S. Tripp
Download or read book Space Command Sustainment Review written by Robert S. Tripp and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space assets are vital to the economic, social, and military interests of the United States, 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.
