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. This report assesses how well alternative logistics processes and organizational designs for meeting F-15 avionics maintenance demands across the spectrum of EAF operations support this concept. Alternatives range from the current decentralized organization associated with the policy of deploying intermediate-maintenance capabilities with the flying units to consolidated, non-deploying structures. The authors find that consolidating F-15 avionics intermediate maintenance and supporting operations from regional support bases would be more conducive to achieving the EAF goal than the current structure.

Supporting Expeditionary Forces: An Analysis of F-15 Avionics Options

Engineering & Transportation

Peltz, Eric

Shulman, Hyman L.

Tripp, Robert S.

Ramey, Timothy

Drew, John G.

Engineering

RAND Corporation

Evaluating current end to end support postures for certain UAV systems revealed that fielding a new capability quickly can have cibsequences for its long term support and for testing and evaluation, training, and plans for future enhancements.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle End to End Support Considerations

Analyses demonstrate how F-16 and KC-135 aircraft maintenance units can be reconfigured to support mission generation operations, with heavy maintenance such as aircraft phase inspections reassigned to a network of centralized repair facilities. This approach identifies options that either exceed current maintenance capabilities at current cost levels or meet required capability levels at reduced cost.

Analysis of Air Force Logistics Enterprise: Evaluation of Global Repair Network Options for Supporting the F-16 and KC-135 (Project Air Force)

McGarvey, Ronald G.

Carrillo, Manuel

Cato, Douglas C.

Lang, Thomas

Adversaries have developed capabilities that may restrict or deny U.S. forces' access to a given area. Prepositioning select war reserve materiel (WRM) may help mitigate vulnerabilities associated with operating in a contested, degraded, or operationally limited environment. In this report, RAND researchers evaluate management approaches and global prepositioning strategies for WRM postures in such environments.

Analysis of Global Management of Air Force War Reserve Materiel to Support Operations in Contested and Degraded Environments

Business & Money

Klein, Kurt

Wirth, Anna Jean

Lynch, Kristin F.

Mills, Patrick

Marlier, Miriam E.

Milonopoulos, Theo

Bennett, Bart E.

Leftwich, James A.

Kilambi, Vikram

DeCicco, Anthony

Kadlec, Amanda

Management & Leadership

A high-end fight places heavy demands on U.S. Air Force command and control of combat support. Policy has increasingly emphasized the need for new concepts, such as dynamic force employment, which stresses the need to maneuver and function in a communications degraded environment. The authors propose robust and resilient concepts for the command and control of logistics in such a situation.

Command and Control of U.S. Air Force Combat Support in a High-End Fight

History

Snyder, Don

Steiner, Colby Peyton

Hura, Myron

Military

Researchers present a Future Logistics Concept Assessment Framework, which is a disciplined, systematic way to assess proposed future logistics concepts to meet the requirements of the National Defense Strategy. The idea is to reveal the most-promising concepts and prune the least promising before significant resources are invested. The goal is not to predict the future, but to show how a concept would fare across various potential futures.

Assessing the Effectiveness of Future Concepts in the U.S. Air Force: Application to Future Logistics Concepts

Ish, Daniel

Klima, Kelly

Blanc, Alexis A.

Brosmer, Jonathan L.

Haak, Kyle

Villalobos, Fabian

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