Download or read book Building Agile Combat Support Competencies to Enable Evolving Adaptive Basing Concepts written by Patrick Mills and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RAND researchers review the motivations for adaptive basing, describe a footprint model used for estimating its implications for Agile Combat Support (ACS), and discuss recommendations for the ACS community and the U.S. Air Force at large.
Download or read book A Framework for Evolving Agile Combat Support Concepts to Meet NATO Reaction Air Force Operational Requirements written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents a framework that could be used in evolving the Agile Combat Support (ACS) and mobility systems of participating partners to meet the operational needs of the NATO Reaction Air Force (RAF). Based on our experience in evaluating ACS/mobility options to meet the United States Air Force Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF) operational goals, we suggest that the NATO RAF concept may require a rethinking of the entire combat support system, as was the case for the USAF EAF, and that subsequently the strategic planning framework for combat support should also be re- examined and enhanced. To a large degree future force projection and resultant combat capability will be dependent upon strategic choices concerning combat support system design that will be made in the near future. This paper explores a planning framework that is based on an integrated set of models and a process for making such strategic decisions. Some USAF EAF results of analyses based on using this framework are presented as they may be relevant for the NATO RAF. The paper also discusses some impediments in using this framework and evolving an effective coalition ACS system.
Download or read book An Evolving Agile Combat Support System written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary of: Supporting expeditionary aerospace forces : a concept for evolving the agile combat support/mobility system of the future / by Robert S. Tripp [and others].
Download or read book A Framework for Evolving Agile Combat Support Concepts to Meet NATO Reaction Air Force Operational Requirements written by Robert S. Tripp and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents a framework that could be used in evolving the Agile Combat Support (ACS) and mobility systems of participating partners to meet the operational needs of the NATO Reaction Air Force (RAF). Based on our experience in evaluating ACS/mobility options to meet the United States Air Force Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF) operational goals, we suggest that the NATO RAF concept may require a rethinking of the entire combat support system, as was the case for the USAF EAF, and that subsequently the strategic planning framework for combat support should also be re- examined and enhanced. To a large degree future force projection and resultant combat capability will be dependent upon strategic choices concerning combat support system design that will be made in the near future. This paper explores a planning framework that is based on an integrated set of models and a process for making such strategic decisions. Some USAF EAF results of analyses based on using this framework are presented as they may be relevant for the NATO RAF. The paper also discusses some impediments in using this framework and evolving an effective coalition ACS system.
Download or read book Balancing Agile Combat Support Manpower to Better Meet the Future Security Environment written by Patrick Mills and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses an enterprise-oriented approach to assess the capacity of the current agile combat support (ACS) manpower mix to support expeditionary operations and assesses the costs and capacity of several rebalanced mixes.
Download or read book Supporting Expeditionary Aerospace Forces written by Robert S. Tripp and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Air Force has begun to reorganize into an Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF). This report summarizes RAND work to date on designing and evaluating the future agile combat system and mobility system needed to meet EAF operational objectives.
Download or read book Advancing Combat Support to Sustain Agile Combat Employment Concepts written by James Leftwich and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus on efficiency in combatant command combat operations has driven peacetime logistics and sustainment processes to be more centralized in the U.S. Air Force and, in some cases, at the U.S. Department of Defense level. In some instances, the centralization placed decision authorities associated with the allocation and reallocation of resources outside the control of warfighting commands. Additionally, the move toward efficiency has created a lean supply chain that relies on assured transportation to rapidly deliver resources where needed based on demand signals from end-users. Capable adversaries, however, can disrupt the supply chain by degrading communications and limiting access to forward locations. As Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) pursues evolving operational concepts of employment designed to improve operational resiliency, questions about the fragility of the combat support (CS) enterprise persist. In light of these questions, Headquarters PACAF asked RAND Project AIR FORCE to take a holistic view of the CS enterprise, including base, theater, and global resources, and explore different concepts that could be integrated in theater sustainment plans to support operations. In this report, the authors decompose the CS enterprise from decision authority and resource characteristic perspectives and propose a framework that PACAF can use to consider the necessary elements of the CS enterprise for operating in a hybrid push-pull system as a means to mitigate uncertainty and adversary actions that challenge logistics support. The report also presents the cost of various resource buffer strategies for spare parts.
Download or read book How Can the Mobility Air Forces Better Support Adaptive Basing written by David T. Orletsky and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Air Force is exploring adaptive basing to reduce vulnerability and preserve critical combat capabilities in highly contested environments. These appendixes present supporting analyses, including political challenges and case studies.
Download or read book Combat Support written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adaptive Basing and the A 10C Enterprise written by Nicholas DiCapua and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The USAF is exploring the concepts of adaptive basing (AB) to develop an operational capability for rapid and adaptive inter-theater mobility while simultaneously conducting offensive operations. There are several other terms in use specific to adaptive basing: distributed operations, untethered operations, agile combat employment, agile basing, forward basing, distributed basing, hub-and-spoke operations, Rapid-X, among others; this paper uses AB as the umbrella term to represent all of the above. The purpose of AB is to challenge adversarial targeting capability of USAF assets as did the USAFE dispersal plan during the Cold War. Currently, though, USAF operational A-10C unit Designed Operational Capability (DOC), training, equipment, and exercises do not permit successful execution of AB operational concepts in conflict with near-peer adversaries in an antiaccess/area-denial (A2/AD) area of operation (AO). This paper investigates AB for efficacy and feasibility and highlights the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities within A-10C organizations and offers recommendations for developing the capability as a competency."--Abstract.
Download or read book Evaluation of Options for Overseas Combat Support Basing written by Mahyar A. Amouzegar and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability of U.S. forces to provide swift and tailored responses to a multitude of threats across the globe is a crucial component of security in today's complex political environment. To realize its goals of global strike and persistent dominance, it is vital that the Air Force support the warfighter seamlessly and efficiently in all phases of deployment, employment, and redeployment. One of the major pillars for achieving these objectives is a global combat support basing architecture. This report presents an analytic framework and model for evaluating options for overseas combat support basing. The authors develop several sets of deployment scenarios to measure the effect of timing, location, and intensity of operational requirements on combat support and to account for the inherent uncertainties in future planning. They apply political, geographical, and vulnerability constraints to the model and present a feasible set of candidate locations for consideration by the Air Force.
Download or read book Supporting Expeditionary Aerospace Forces written by Lionel A. Galway and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2000 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report addresses support of emerging Air Force employment strategies associated with Expeditionary Aerospace Forces (EAFs). EAF concepts turn on the premise that rapidly tailorable, quickly deployable, immediately employable, and highly effective air and space force packages can serve as a credible substitute for permanent forward presence. This research shows that to implement the EAF concept the Air Force will need to develop a comprehensive system of forward support infrastructure.
Download or read book Supporting Expeditionary Aerospace Forces written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report addresses support of emerging Air Force employment strategies associated with Expeditionary Aerospace Forces (EAFs). EAF concepts turn on the premise that rapidly tailorable, quickly deployable, immediately employable, and highly effective air and space force packages can serve as a credible substitute for permanent forward presence. Success of the EAF will, to a great extent, depend on the effectiveness and efficiency of the Agile Combat Support (ACS) system in supporting expeditionary operations. This study is one of a series of RAND publications that address ACS issues in implementing the EAF. Others address planning, practices, policies, and technologies that can enhance the effectiveness of the EAF.
Download or read book How Can the Mobility Air Forces Better Support Adaptive Basing written by David T. Orletsky and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Air Force is exploring adaptive basing (AB) concepts to reduce the vulnerability of U.S. forces to growing air and missile threats and to preserve critical combat capabilities in highly contested environments. These concepts are likely to stress the U.S. Air Force's global mobility capabilities. AB concepts call for force packages to operate in mobile and responsive ways to provide protection and fight from positions of advantage. Although these concepts place additional and different demands on the U.S. Air Force's global mobility capabilities, their effect on the Mobility Air Forces (MAF) had not been fully analyzed. In this report, the authors assess the impact of AB concepts on the MAF and recommend how to enable the MAF to better support operations in contested environments. The analysis considers the impact of several AB concepts on the demand for tankers, airlift, and base enablers in the Pacific area of responsibility and examines the sufficiency of current MAF forces to support AB concepts. Potential enhancements are then considered. In general, the authors find that the current MAF (tankers, airlift, and base enablers) could support a few fighter wings (two or three) operating using an AB scheme of maneuver. Significant changes must be made to support larger force packages. Potential enhancements include culture; tactics, techniques, and procedures; equipment; and new technologies.
Download or read book Contingency Basing for Great Power Competition written by Michael E. Canfield and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Air University Advanced Research paper focuses on applying the new context created from Great Powers Competition to military contingency basing. The broad scope of this paper relates the emerging concepts of adaptive operations and Agile Combat Employment (ACE) to the challenge of basing in a contested environment. The military must adapt the hub-and-spoke basing methodology to a more distributed basing networked focused on decentralized execution which will require trading efficiency for survivability and operations capability. Joint bases must be embraced to transcend segregated service areas within an installation to intentionally designed and planned campuses organized by integrated function instead of service. Lastly, lower contingency construction standards may need to be accepted to divest base resources into a larger network of bases and thereby avoid creating an enticing target for a peer capable adversary."--Abstract.
Download or read book Learning Large Lessons written by David E. Johnson and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2007-03-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relative roles of U.S. ground and air power have shifted since the end of the Cold War. At the level of major operations and campaigns, the Air Force has proved capable of and committed to performing deep strike operations, which the Army long had believed the Air Force could not reliably accomplish. If air power can largely supplant Army systems in deep operations, the implications for both joint doctrine and service capabilities would be significant. To assess the shift of these roles, the author of this report analyzed post?Cold War conflicts in Iraq (1991), Bosnia (1995), Kosovo (1999), Afghanistan (2001), and Iraq (2003). Because joint doctrine frequently reflects a consensus view rather than a truly integrated joint perspective, the author recommends that joint doctrine-and the processes by which it is derived and promulgated-be overhauled. The author also recommends reform for the services beyond major operations and campaigns to ensure that the United States attains its strategic objectives. This revised edition includes updates and an index.
Download or read book Air Base Defense written by Alan J. Vick and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gap between the growing cruise and ballistic missile threat to U.S. Air Force bases in Europe and the U.S. capacity and capability to counter the threat is worrisome. This report assesses alternative Air Force courses of action.
