Download or read book Commercial Intratheater Airlift written by Ronald G. McGarvey and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intratheater airlift delivers critical and time-sensitive supplies to deployed forces. Traditionally, military aircraft have provided this airlift. However, in recent years, commercial carriers provided a significant amount of airlift within U.S. Central Command. The authors examine whether the use of commercial airlift was more cost-effective than using organic U.S. Air Force aircraft for these historical movements.
Download or read book Commercial Intratheater Airlift written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intratheater airlift delivers critical and time-sensitive supplies, such as blood products for transfusions or repair parts for vehicles, to deployed forces. Traditionally, military aircraft have provided this airlift. However, for various reasons, in recent years a number of commercial carriers have provided a significant amount of airlift within U.S. Central Command. But was this more cost-effective than using organic U.S. Air Force aircraft? To explore this question, the authors collected historical (2009) U.S. Central Command data and created models to identify the most cost-effective combination of commercial and organic airlift to perform the required movements. The calculations needed to address differences in fixed and marginal costs across alternatives as well as the effects of price elasticities of demand for commercial airlift providers. Model optimization runs showed a preference for U.S. Air Force-organic aircraft but suggested that commercial alternatives should be retained to supplement Air Force aircraft for a small fraction of movements. The authors further observed that U.S. Central Command planners could have benefitted from more sophisticated decision support tools to make daily intratheater cargo-aircraft allocation decisions.
Download or read book Analysis of CENTCOM Commercial Intra theater Airlift Costs written by Fredric M. Oberson (MAJ, USAF.) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Airlift Requirements written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Central Command s Intratheater Airlift written by M. Shane Turner and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Incorporating successful business practices from the FedEx Corporation's commercial air cargo system can increase productivity and effectiveness for U.S. Central Command's intratheater airlift system. The goal of this academic comparison is to recommend strategies for improvement and courses of action to make the intratheater airlift system more effective at supporting the warfighter in future conflicts. Although research on improving the intratheater airlift system is not new, this topic remains relevant as a continual problem area for the Joint Force Commander. Many researchers have improved specific aspects of the intratheater airlift system."--Abstract.
Download or read book A Commercial Solution to the Intertheater Airlift Shortfall written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the United States reliance on rapid power projection, there is little prospect demands on airlift will decrease. On the contrary, today s significant gap between requirements and capabilities will likely increase as the nation faces new challenges prosecuting the war on terrorism. One of which is the increased likelihood of airlift forces operating in hostile environments due to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and man-portable surface-to-air missiles. There are several possible mainstream solutions to meet growing airlift demands including purchasing additional military-style aircraft, refurbishing aging aircraft, increasing Civil Reserve Air Fleet involvement, stockpiling more pre-positioned equipment, or increasing burden sharing with allies. This thesis asks whether complementing Air Mobility Command's current military-style aircraft fleet with commercially available aircraft is the most fiscally responsible option for solving Department of Defense's intertheater airlift shortfall? Given the long lead times for design, funding, and acquisition, understanding future requirements and operating environment is important. Unfortunately, predicting the future is impossible and often leads to incorrect and expensive assumptions. Therefore, when creating a future airlift fleet, planners should not only provide capability to meet specific threats, but also provide a sufficiently robust, flexible, and most generally capable force effective against even unforeseen circumstances.
Download or read book A Framework for Enhancing Airlift Planning and Execution Capabilities Within the Joint Expeditionary Movement System written by Robert S. Tripp and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent operations have shed light on shortfalls in Air Force intratheater airlift. Using an expanded strategies-to-tasks framework, the authors assess current intratheater airlift processes, organizations, doctrine, training, and systems. This report catalogues identified shortfalls and recommends options for improving the Theater Distribution System. The authors recommend separation of supply, demand, and integrator roles and adoption of a closed-loop planning and execution process.
Download or read book The airship s potential for intertheater and intratheater airlift written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Airlift written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on Military Airlift and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intratheater Airlift Functional Area Analysis FAA written by David T. Orletsky and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This functional area analysis lays out the tasks, conditions, and standards for the intratheater airlift fleet, taken from high-level guidance, various operational concepts, and recent operational experience and the key variables for later analyses.
Download or read book Integrating Joint Intratheater Airlift Command and Control with the Needs of the Modular Army a Perspective of Current and Past Nonlinear Operation written by U S Army Command and General Staff Coll and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The command and control of today's intratheater airlift system, as seen in doctrine and in application, is complicated and conflicted. As the Army continues its transformation to the modular force, requirements for responsive and flexible intratheater airlift have grown. In contrast, existing Joint and Air Force intratheater airlift doctrine does not address these needs, as seen in recent operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Presented in this book are two historical case studies of past intratheater airlift efforts: Burma during World War II and the tactical airlift system of Vietnam. Both provide examples of distinct intratheater airlift command and control arrangements with similar attributes called for by Army transformation. Both case studies provide lessons in the application of theater airlift to support ground forces in a nonlinear battlefield. Coupled with identified failings in both doctrine and structure of the current theater distribution system, this book identifies requirements of theater airlift if it is to provide effective and efficient support to the modular force. With an understanding of current and past doctrine, structural evolutions of intratheater airlift, and the effects of each system, this book concludes with recommended changes to the intratheater airlift command and control structure to meet Army requirements.
Download or read book The Airship s Potential For Intertheater And Intratheater Airlift U S Department Of Defense written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1998* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unmanned Intratheater Airlift written by Kevin J. McGowan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Airlift Requirements written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Defense's (DOD) airlift requirements, focusing on the Air Force's cost and operational effectiveness analysis (COEA) for its C-17 aircraft program. GAO found that: (1) although DOD concluded that the C-17 fleet was the preferred choice for meeting its airlift requirements, its analysis made three assumptions that favored the C-17 and significantly reduced the cost-effectiveness of proposed alternatives; (2) the C-17 was designed to replace aging aircraft, deliver cargo to small, forward airfields, and provide other operational advantages over existing aircraft; (3) the study's assumptions about airfield availability were not realistic; (4) the Air Force's utilization rate assumptions credited C-17 aircraft with undemonstrated utilization rate advantages; (5) DOD operating and support costs estimates were not valid because it no longer plans to use the C-17 in place of the C-130 for routine intratheater deliveries; (6) COEA was not intended to be used to assess the minimum number of aircraft needed to fulfill unique military requirements; and (7) when the three questionable assumptions are adjusted for, a mixed fleet becomes more cost-effective and capable of meeting military airlift requirements.
Download or read book A Methodology for Evaluating Intra theater Airlift Options written by Michael K. Hathaway (MAJ, USAF.) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preparation of Freight for Air Shipment written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Airship s Potential for Intertheater and Intratheater Airlift written by Donald E. Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper asserts there exists a dangerous GAP in US strategic intertheater transportation capabilities, propounds a model describing the GAP, and proposes a solution to the problem. Logistics requirements fall into three broad, overlapping categories: Immediate, Mid-Term, and Sustainment requirements. These categories commence and terminate at different times depending on the theater of operations, with Immediate being the most time sensitive and Sustainment the least. Using the Gulf War logistics flow as a model, the three phase points are shown and their airlift/sealift tradeoffs discussed. Other logistics support options, which figured in the war, such as prepositioning and host nation support, are discussed and the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations shown to be, in many ways, a fortuitous theater of operations. This serendipitous combination of circumstances contributed greatly to our successful logistics buildup and is unlikely to recur. The airship is recommended as a suitable solution to the Mid-Term strategic transportation di lemma (GAP). The fundamentals of airship operation. 11 are described, its history in both war and peace discussed, and some current private and military airship activities mentioned. Recent technological breakthroughs in materials technology are discussed and the potential for government-sponsored research and development yielding equally great propulsion and cargo capacity dividends explored. A discussion of the potential threat environment of the early twenty-first century shows the airship, properly constructed and used, would likely be no more vulnerable than jet air lifters while offering transportation capabilities currently unavailable. The airship's advantages as an inter/intratheater transporter are so great as to deserve further investigation for addition to the US strategic airlift fleet.
