Download or read book Assessing Unit Readiness Case Study of an Air Force Fighter Wing written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of developing a high-level, overarching system for managing the military readiness of the United States Air Force (USAF), Project AIR FORCE's Resource Management Program has undertaken an in-depth review of readiness problems in an active component operational fighter wing. The broad context stems from ongoing allegations of problems with readiness in the current environment of constrained resources and demanding contingency requirements. Our aim is to characterize the effects of this environment on a representative operational unit and to capture the generalizable features in a readiness management system designed for senior decisionmakers. At the time of writing, we were in the process of developing an architecture for an encompassing USAF readiness management system. At the generous invitation of its commanding officer, Col Mike Hostage, we focused on the 388th Fighter Wing (FW) at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. When we collected our data, the 388th was operating a primary mission authorized inventory (PMAI) of 54 F-l6 Block 40 jets in three squadrons: the 4th, the 34th, and the 421st. These aircraft are equipped with Low-Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared-Night (LANTIRN) systems that render them among the most lethal ground attack systems in the world; the aircraft also have powerful air-to-air capability. As such, they are in high demand for contingency operations. The 388th Maintenance Squadron (MXS) provides intermediate-level maintenance support. Behind the flying and maintenance squadrons are a range of supporting squadrons and groups, as well as the wing command.
Download or read book Assessing Unit Readiness Case Study of an Air Force Fighter Wing written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of developing a high-level, overarching system for managing the military readiness of the United States Air Force (USAF), Project AIR FORCE's Resource Management Program has undertaken an in-depth review of readiness problems in an active component operational fighter wing. The broad context stems from ongoing allegations of problems with readiness in the current environment of constrained resources and demanding contingency requirements. Our aim is to characterize the effects of this environment on a representative operational unit and to capture the generalizable features in a readiness management system designed for senior decisionmakers. At the time of writing, we were in the process of developing an architecture for an encompassing USAF readiness management system. At the generous invitation of its commanding officer, Col Mike Hostage, we focused on the 388th Fighter Wing (FW) at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. When we collected our data, the 388th was operating a primary mission authorized inventory (PMAI) of 54 F-l6 Block 40 jets in three squadrons: the 4th, the 34th, and the 421st. These aircraft are equipped with Low-Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared-Night (LANTIRN) systems that render them among the most lethal ground attack systems in the world; the aircraft also have powerful air-to-air capability. As such, they are in high demand for contingency operations. The 388th Maintenance Squadron (MXS) provides intermediate-level maintenance support. Behind the flying and maintenance squadrons are a range of supporting squadrons and groups, as well as the wing command.
Download or read book Assessing Unit Readiness written by David E. Thaler and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THe U.S. Air Force has recently confronted a host of challenges in its efforts to maintian military readiness. This briefing focuses on the nature of those challenges in an air mobility wing at Travis Air Force Base, California. It conclude that maintainers and aircrews alike have in fact been subjected to myraid pressures, many of them conflicting, and that these pressures have adversely overall productivity. Viable solutions to these problems, however, must address all aspects of unit readiness.
Download or read book Air Force Journal of Logistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing Unit Readiness Case Study of an Air Force Mobility Wing written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this documented briefing, we first explain a concept of readiness that goes beyond the common emphasis on operational readiness. We then review standards for manning the pilot, enlisted aircrew, and maintainer forces and briefly describe how these standards relate to the overall "health" of a wing. The briefing then assesses the challenges facing the 60th Air Mobility Wing (AMW) at Travis Air Force Base, California, in sustaining the force over time. We conclude by summarizing the wing's overall ability to sustain its readiness.
Download or read book Air Force journal of logistics vol25 no2 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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.
Download or read book Air Force journal of logistics vol25 no3 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Measuring Strategic Readiness written by Bradley Martin and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors explore a more expansive approach to readiness assessments that goes beyond the narrow lens of operational readiness and considers a broader set of dimensions that could affect readiness outcomes.
Download or read book Managing Military Readiness written by Institute for National Strategic Studies (U.S.) and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents an analytic framework that builds from previous work to yield the systematic and defendable readiness analysis that must underlie decisions ranging from budget allocation to force employment and even strategy development. To manage readiness, the Department of Defense (DOD) must balance the supply and demand of deployable forces around the world. The readiness of an individual unit is the result of a series of time-intensive force generation processes that ultimately combine qualified people, working equipment, and unit training to produce military capabilities suitable for executing the defense strategy. Therefore, managing readiness is as much about understanding the complexities of human resource management and the technical details of weapons system availability as it is about measuring the ability of U.S. forces to support the national security strategy. Policymakers, military members and command leaders, plus senior Department of Defense team staff, ROTC, military science, and human resource management students may be interested in this illustrated resource about military readiness prior to national security situation deployments. Related products: Military Engagement and Forward Presence: Down But Not Out as Tools to Shape and Win is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/military-engagement-and-forward-presence-down-not-out-tools-shape-and-win Russian Military Power: Building a Military To Support Great Power Aspirations is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/russian-military-power-building-military-support-great-power-aspirations The Armed Forces Officer is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/armed-forces-officer Other products produced by the US Army, National Defense University Press can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/national-defense-university-ndu
Download or read book Military Readiness written by Richard K. Betts and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout most of American history, U.S. military forces proved unready for the wars that were thrust upon them and suffered costly reverses in early battles. During the Cold War, for the first time, U.S. defense policy tried to maintain high readiness in peacetime. But now, with the Cold War over and defense budgets falling, what will happen to U.S. military forces? Will they revert to a state of unpreparedness or find a new balance? Politicians and military planners alike have found this crucial issue especially difficult to deal with because they have often misunderstood what readiness really means. In this book, security expert Richard Betts surveys problems in developing and measuring combat readiness before, during, and after the Cold War. He analyzes why attempts to maximize it often have counterproductive effects, and how confusions in technical concepts cause political controversy. The book explores conflicts between two objectives that are both vital but work against each other because they compete for resources: operational readiness to fight immediately, and structural readiness—the number of organized units that increase military power, but require time during a crisis to gear up for combat. Betts also discusses the problem brought on by the Cold War and plunging defense budgets: mobilization readiness—the plans and arrangements needed to shorten the time for recreating a large military if it once again becomes necessary. Betts offers new ideas for understanding the dilemmas and tradeoffs that underlie debates on how readiness should be maintained in peacetime, and he explores the strategic consequences of different choices.
Download or read book Selected Rand Abstracts written by Rand Corporation and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes publications previously listed in the supplements to the Index of selected publications of the Rand Corporation (Oct. 1962-Feb. 1963).
Download or read book Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
Download or read book Improving the Effectiveness of Air Force Squadron Commanders written by John A. Ausink and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study used a variety of data sources and interviews with squadron, group, and wing commanders to develop recommendations for how the Air Force can address commander responsibilities, improve commander preparation, and refine resource monitoring.
Download or read book Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences written by W. H. Shafer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences was first conceived, published, and dis seminated by the Center for Information and Numerical Data Analysis and Synthesis (CINDAS) * at Purdue University in 1957, starting its coverage of theses with the academic year 1955. Beginning with Volume 13, the printing and dissemination phases of the ac tivity were transferred to University Microfilms/Xerox of Ann Arbor, Michigan, with the thought that such an arrangement would be more beneficial to the academic and general scientific and technical community. After five years of this joint undertaking we had concluded that it was in the interest of all concerned if the printing and distribution of the volume were handled by an international publishing house to assure improved service and broader dissemination. Hence, starting with Volume 18, Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences has been disseminated on a worldwide basis by Plenum Publishing Corporation of New York, and in the same year the coverage was broadened to include Canadian universities. All back issues can also be ordered from Plenum. We have reported in Volume 22 (thesis year 1977) a total of 10,658 theses titles from 28 Canadian and 227 United States universities. We are sure that this broader base for theses titles reported will greatly enhance the value of this important annual reference work. While Volume 22 reports theses submitted in 1977, on occasion, certain universities do report theses submitted in previous years but not reported at the time.
Download or read book Federal Evaluations written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an inventory of evaluation reports produced by and for selected Federal agencies, including GAO evaluation reports that relate to the programs of those agencies.
