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

Tripp, Robert S.

Drew, John G.

Wirth, Anna Jean

Lynch, Kristin F.

McGarvey, Ronald G.

Mills, Patrick

Marlier, Miriam E.

Milonopoulos, Theo

Bennett, Bart E.

Leftwich, James A.

Kilambi, Vikram

DeCicco, Anthony

Kadlec, Amanda

Management & Leadership

RAND Corporation

To persevere in contested, degraded, and operationally limited environments, the U.S. Air Force is exploring a variety of alternative force deployment and employment concepts under an umbrella initiative called adaptive basing (AB). Fundamentally, AB is about the ability to avoid or survive missile attacks and keep operating in theater despite them. In this report, RAND researchers describe the competencies that can enable AB.

Building Agile Combat Support Competencies to Enable Evolving Adaptive Basing Concepts

History

Lostumbo, Michael J.

Narayanan, Anu

Godges, John P.

Girardini, Josh

Van Abel, Kristin

Welburn, Jonathan William

Felten, Daniel P.

Military

The authors examine the logistics and sustainment aspects of an emerging operational concept for employing a family of unmanned aerial vehicles that can be launched, recovered, and sustained with minimal reliance on runways. They find that this class of weapon system?called affordable runway-independent unmanned aerial vehicles?can conduct high-volume combat operations with lower resource requirements than traditional platforms.

Supporting Combat Power Projection Away from Fixed Infrastructure

DeBlois, Bradley

Orletsky, David T.

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