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Author :Air Force Air Force Institute of Technology Publisher :CreateSpace ISBN 13 :9781502477507 Total Pages :120 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (775 download)
Book Synopsis Remotely Piloted Aircraft (Rpa) Performing the Air Refueling Mission by : Air Force Air Force Institute of Technology
Download or read book Remotely Piloted Aircraft (Rpa) Performing the Air Refueling Mission written by Air Force Air Force Institute of Technology and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to examine future policy options for developing Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) as tankers to perform the air-refueling (AR) mission against RPA receivers. It utilizes a Delphi methodology to obtain input from a panel of experts and senior military leaders. A three-round Delphi targeted a panel of five experts to brainstorm ideas, rate these ideas, and finally determine consensus. A separate standalone round targeted six senior leaders (SL); the questioning in this round was identical to the expert panel's second round and was intended to draw in SLs while minimizing their time requirements. Ultimately, of the 43 ideas generated by the expert panel during the initial round, 46.5% reached consensus within the expert panel in a direction other than a neutral opinion. In contrast, the SL round found intersections of consensus on only 16.3% of the ideas in a direction other than neutral. Thus, this book produces clear direction for future development, as well as identifying areas requiring more focus to achieve consensus.
Book Synopsis Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) Performing the Air Refueling Mission by : Sarah R. Lynch
Download or read book Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) Performing the Air Refueling Mission written by Sarah R. Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) Performing the Airdrop Mission by : Patrick F. Farrell
Download or read book Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) Performing the Airdrop Mission written by Patrick F. Farrell and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stress and Dissatisfaction in the Air Force's Remotely Piloted Aircraft Community by : Chaitra M. Hardison
Download or read book Stress and Dissatisfaction in the Air Force's Remotely Piloted Aircraft Community written by Chaitra M. Hardison and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prepared for the Air Force Special Operations Command"--Title page.
Book Synopsis Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems by : Nancy J. Cooke
Download or read book Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems written by Nancy J. Cooke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the human components of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems, their interactions with the technology and each other, and the implications of human capabilities and limitations for the larger system Considers human factors issues associated with RPAS, but within the context of a very large system of people, other vehicles, policy, safety concerns, and varying applications Chapters have been contributed by world class experts in HSI and those with operational RPAS experience Considers unintended consequences associated with taking a more myopic view of this system Examines implications for practice, policy, and research Considers both civil and military aspects of RPAS
Book Synopsis Consolidating the Revolution by : David A. Deptula
Download or read book Consolidating the Revolution written by David A. Deptula and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen years of dramatic growth in demand for the sensor and strike capabilities that remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) afford have left the Department of Defense (DOD) struggling to meet burgeoning mission demand. This study examines the challenge from several vantages: first, by exploring the history that yielded the present system; second, reviewing the current state of play; and third, prescribing a set of actions that will result in a sustainable path to deliver necessary capacity and capability to achieve RPA mission effects.
Book Synopsis Remotely Piloted Aircraft and War in the Public Relations Domain by : United States United States Air Force
Download or read book Remotely Piloted Aircraft and War in the Public Relations Domain written by United States United States Air Force and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The well-intentioned author of the article "The Killing Ma-chines," which appeared in the Atlantic last year, offers a lengthy description of a Hellfire missile strike by a remotely piloted aircraft (RPA). The story's protagonist, a "19-year-old American soldier" who entered Air Force basic military training straight out of high school, became an MQ-1 Predator crew member upon graduation. Reportedly, on his very first mission at the controls, the "young pilot" observed a troops-in-contact situation on the ground. The "colonel, watching over his shoulder, said, 'They're pinned down pretty good. They're gonna be screwed if you don't do something.' " The narrative goes on to describe the Hellfire missile strike and the psychological effect it had on the Airman. To a sophisticated military audience, the factual inconsistencies in this account are apparent. Air Force RPAs are crewed by Airmen, not Soldiers. The 19-year-old Airman (an enlisted rank) cannot be an Air Force pilot (an officer rating). The article claims that during his first time at the controls, this Airman finds himself on a combat mission in-theater. In reality, he would have become familiar with the controls at initial qualification training, prior to arriving at his first combat squadron. Furthermore, when colonels speak to Airmen about life-and-death combat decisions, they tend to do so in terms of direct orders rather than leading suggestions. How can Mark Bowden, notable historian and author of such well-received books as Black Hawk Down, commit such factual errors? The answer is simple. Information about Air Force RPA operations is rarely available-and when it is, it usually proves unreliable. This article contends that because an information vacuum exists with respect to US RPA operations, well-meaning people cannot gain adequate knowledge to develop and share an informed opinion on the most important RPA questions. It calls this dearth of information "the epistemic problem."
Book Synopsis Methodologies for Analyzing Remotely Piloted Aircraft in Future Roles and Missions by : Sherrill Lee Lingel
Download or read book Methodologies for Analyzing Remotely Piloted Aircraft in Future Roles and Missions written by Sherrill Lee Lingel and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Air Force's remotely piloted aircraft (RPAs) have played a significant role in current operations in Southwest Asia. As the inventory of RPAs increases and new sensor technologies come online in the coming years, the Air Force has an opportunity to consider additional roles for these aircraft. Thoughtful study into these possibilities will ensure that, when the Air Force employs RPAs, they will help fill capability gaps or augment existing capabilities in moreefficient or more-effective ways. The purpose of this documented briefing is to describe a suite of tools developed by RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF) to help the Air Force think through future roles for RPAs. It describes tools to evaluate platform selection and concept of operations (CONOPS) development, sensor performance against various targets, weapon effects, environmental factors, platform survivability, computational processing of data, and exploitation of sensor products. This document also explains how the separate analysis in each of these areas feeds into a mission level analysis, performed with PAF's Systems and CONOPS Operational Effectiveness Model (SCOPEM), and a campaign-level analysis using PAF's Force Structure Effectiveness (FSE) model. Use of these tools and models will help clarify how future RPAs can contribute to U.S. warfighting in cost-effective ways. The tools presented here are also useful for examining the effectiveness of new capabilities more broadly (e.g., directed energy weapons or electronic warfare capabilities); examining the effectiveness of new platforms in the context of the entire intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) force posture; and evaluating the most cost-effective ISR force structure to meet future operational needs.
Book Synopsis Department of Defense Appropriations, S. Hrg. 111-688, Fiscal Year 2011, 111-2, * by :
Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations, S. Hrg. 111-688, Fiscal Year 2011, 111-2, * written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Grounding the RPA Force by : Charles M. Washuk
Download or read book Grounding the RPA Force written by Charles M. Washuk and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 2015 Air Force Future Operating Concept, presents an overarching framework as to how the Air Force will provide global vigilance, reach, and power through the application of “operational agility” to meet and resolve challenges in the year 2035. More recently, the Air Force published its Air Superiority 2030 Flight Plan, which calls for an integrated “family of systems” to achieve air and space superiority in future conflicts. A significant part of the solution in both publications involves the application of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) in a combat role to accomplish mission objectives. While RPAs have been in use for over a decade, the demand for their employment has been drastically increasing. The amount of trained personnel required to operate attack RPAs, however, has been on the decline, generating a manning crisis in this career field. Grueling operational hours, the introduction of mental and emotional stressors, the perception of inequality amongst peers, and lower school and promotion selection rates have led to highly qualified RPA operators ejecting from the Air Force after completion of their service commitment. As a result, the current RPA pilot retention rates will prevent the Air Force from meeting the demand of 2035, even with the advancements of technology. This research paper proposes that the Air Force needs to transform the RPA pilot career field and provide the same advancement opportunities as the rest of the Air Force pilot community to improve retention and recruitment. Specifically, it should address how the RPA community is advertised to the world, how RPA candidates are trained and consider renaming the career field altogether. Failing to address the problems facing the RPA force may cause the Air Force to continue on its path of fostering a toxic relationship from within the pilot community, lose experienced Airmen, and ultimately be unable to meet the challenges it will face in 2035"--Abstract.
Download or read book RPAs written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historian's occupational disease is to find old precedents for practically everything new that comes along. And that is true for remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) as well. In one way they are merely the continuation of the millennia-old human longing for methods of striking or observing one's enemies while remaining safe. The purpose of this essay is to briefly explore that which is old, to dwell for a time on what seems to be new, and to conclude with some speculations about the future of unmanned systems. George Patton once remarked that the object is not to die for one's country, but rather to make the other guy die for his. Thus, one way of looking at the history of military development is seeing it as an eternal search for standoff and precision to discover what one's enemy might be doing, or to strike him blows with minimum risk to one's health.1 That is often achieved through skill with minimal force rather than brute strength as with David and Goliath. So, too, it is with Predator operators at Creech AFB, Nevada, reaching across the world to see and then strike with small Hellfire missiles launched from Predator or Reaper RPAs. Precision-guided munitions (PGM), cruise missiles, and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) have long shared these characteristics, but none of these can be reused-- guidance and propulsion systems are consumed with each round. RPAs have had much in common in the development of the technology with those, but are intended for reuse of the power and guidance apparatus.
Book Synopsis National Remotely Piloted Aircraft System by : William D. Phillips (Jr.)
Download or read book National Remotely Piloted Aircraft System written by William D. Phillips (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The value of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) is being recognized across multiple government sectors. In terms of law enforcement, public safety, and defense the utility of these vehicles is rapidly translating to requirements. Fiscal constraints, however, weigh against establishing separate capabilities and agencies across the federal government, all in pursuit of seemingly distinct, but ultimately similar ends. In the pursuit of these ends, however, any given agency must pay due homage to the traditional notion of privacy and civil liberties in this country while executing "reconnaissance operations" in the domestic environment. This paper will propose the establishment of a centralized federal agency, charged with fulfilling diverse RPA mission sets in support of the domestic security of the United States. It will suggest structure and processes that will allow for servicing law enforcement, defense and other governmental functions through the use of RPA's, while adhering simultaneously to concerns of economy and efficiency. Finally this paper will suggest near term and (if necessary) future safeguards that will allow for these economies and efficiencies without impeding upon the rights of United States persons and citizens.
Book Synopsis Grand Forks Air Force Base (AFB), BRAC Beddown and Flight Operations of Remotely Piloted Aircraft by :
Download or read book Grand Forks Air Force Base (AFB), BRAC Beddown and Flight Operations of Remotely Piloted Aircraft written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Effectiveness of Remotely Piloted Aircraft in a Permissive Hunter-killer Scenario by : Lance Menthe
Download or read book The Effectiveness of Remotely Piloted Aircraft in a Permissive Hunter-killer Scenario written by Lance Menthe and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report analyzes the operational effectiveness of several new concepts for employing remotely piloted aircraft in a permissive “hunter-killer” mission.
Book Synopsis The Swarm, the Cloud, and the Importance of Getting There First by : U. S. Military
Download or read book The Swarm, the Cloud, and the Importance of Getting There First written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all the ink spilled over remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) technology, knowledge of RPA culture remains in its infancy. Continuing the debate about culture, we argue first for the urgency of achieving manned-remote fusion in air warfare. Second, we maintain that the limiting factor in realizing that future is not technological but cultural. That is, until the RPA community finds its voice and place in the larger service, this evolution of airpower remains unlikely. The task at hand does not call for reinventing airpower but rediscovering it. Many of our Air Force greats have much to say about building a culture of technical warriors. We simply need to apply the ideas of Gen Henry "Hap" Arnold and those like him to the enterprise of remote aviation.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Defense Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :592 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2011 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Defense
Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2011 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Defense and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program: Military posture by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Download or read book Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program: Military posture written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
