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.

Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces: Lessons from Operation Iraqi Freedom

History

Lynch, Kristin F.

Military

RAND Corporation

A congressionally mandated review of the proposed restructuring of Air Force Materiel Command examined the proposal and its effect on life-cycle management, weapon system sustainment, and overall support to the warfighter. It also presents process improvement options to improve warfighter support and product development/support system design and operations support efficiencies, and it suggests organizational changes to facilitate their implementation.

Air Force Materiel Command Reorganization Analysis: Final Report (Rand Corporation Monograph)

Shelton, William

Fox, Bernard

Sollinger, Jerry M.

Ausink, John A.

Tripp, Robert S.

Conley, Raymond E.

Romano, Daniel M.

Duran, Chelsea Kaihoi

DeFeo, Robert G.

George, David W.

Assesses the FY 2012 reorganization of the Air Force Material Command, which was undertaken as one of the initiatives to achieve mandated budget reductions by eliminating civilian manpower positions, thus achieving cost savings.

Assessment of the Air Force Material Command Reorganization: Report for Congress

Robbert, Albert A.

Werber, Laura

Snyder, Don

Nowak, Sarah A.

Thirtle, Michael

Documents the modeling framework Project Air Force developed to evaluate combat support requirements, basing posture vulnerabilities, operational resilience, and potential mitigation strategies to support combat operations in a denied environment.

Project AIR FORCE Modeling Capabilities for Support of Combat Operations in Denied Environments

Sánchez, Ricardo

Amouzegar, Mahyar A.

Lynch, Christopher

Ohlandt, Chad J.R.

Guffey, Robert A.

Thomas, Brent

Costello, Rachel

Karode, Andrew

Munson, Ken

Vesely, Joseph V.

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

Drew, John G.

Wirth, Anna Jean

McGarvey, Ronald G.

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

Steiner, Colby Peyton

Hura, Myron

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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