A key challenge facing the future Air Force is how to nearly continuously deploy relatively small scale forces for peace keeping and humanitarian relief missions while maintaining the capability to win major theater wars. In response to this challenge, the Air Force has developed the concept of an Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF) to deal with the range of expected missions. The report argues that this new concept requires a complete reexamination of the combat support system, especially the planning framework for combat support. This framework must integrate logistics, mobility, and operational planning across echelons, commands, and phases of warfare. The report discusses how integrated Agile Combat Support planning aimed at midterm or strategic decisions can enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of EAF operations. The authors provide an example of use of the ACS planning framework to evaluate support alternatives for a strike AEF deployment to

Supporting The Expeditionary Aerospace Force: An Integrated Strategic Agile Combat Support Planning Framework

Science & Math

Peltz, Eric

Tripp, Robert S.

Ramey, Timothy

Killingsworth, Paul

Galway, Lionel A.

Astronomy & Space Science

RAND Corporation

The goal of the Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF) concept is to rely on rapidly deployable, immediately employable, highly effective and flexible air and space packages to flexibly serve the strategic role that a permanent forward presence formerly played in deterring and quickly responding to aggression. This report assesses how well alternative logistics processes and organizational designs for meeting F-15 avionics maintenance demands across the spectrum of EAF operations support this concept. Alternatives range from the current decentralized organization associated with the policy of deploying intermediate-maintenance capabilities with the flying units to consolidated, non-deploying structures. The authors find that consolidating F-15 avionics intermediate maintenance and supporting operations from regional support bases would be more conducive to achieving the EAF goal than the current structure.

Supporting Expeditionary Forces: An Analysis of F-15 Avionics Options

Engineering & Transportation

Shulman, Hyman L.

Drew, John G.

Engineering

Explores ways in which the Army might improve its ability to contribute to the prompt, global power projection capability of the United States.

Speed and Power: Toward an Expeditionary Army

History

Military

Assesses the relationship between tank age and the missioncritical failure rate for the Army's M1 Abrams tank.

The Effects of Equipment Age on Mission Critical Failure Rates: A Study of M1 Tanks

Technology

This monograph describes how well the Department of Defense logistics system supported Army forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom, documents the major reasons for shortfalls in performance, provides recommendations for improvement, and points to questions raised with respect to the design of future forces.

Sustainment of Army Forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom

Middle East

Describes how Army forces were sustained with material during Operation Iraqi Freedom, examines how well this support performed, and discusses the effects on operations, with an emphasis o the period from the start of ground combat to the fall of Baghdad.

Sustainment of Army Forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom: Battlefield Logistics and Effects on Operations

The authors provide a framework for an integrated Department of Defense (DoD) supply chain, associated policy recommendations, and a companion framework for management practices that will drive people to take actions aligned with this integrated supply chain approach. Building on the framework and policy recommendations, they identify opportunities to improve DoD supply chain efficiency and highlight several already being pursued by DoD.

Integrating the Department of Defense Supply Chain

McGovern, Geoffrey

Robbins, Marc

This independent assessment is a comprehensive study of the strategic benefits, risks, and costs of U.S. military presence overseas. The report provides policymakers a way to evaluate the range of strategic benefits and costs that follow from revising the U.S. overseas military presence by characterizing how this presence contributes to assurance, deterrence, responsiveness, and security cooperation goals.

Overseas Basing of U.S. Military Forces: An Assessment of Relative Costs and Strategic Benefits

Business & Money

Halliday, John

Frelinger, David R.

Sollinger, Jerry M.

McNerney, Michael J.

Eaton, Derek

Greenfield, Victoria A.

Lostumbo, Michael J.

Mills, Patrick

Nardulli, Bruce R.

Worman, Stephen M.

Management & Leadership

Examines Department of Defense depot-level reparable (DLR) supply chain management to identify the most common reasons for apparent inventory excess and customer support shortfalls and assess how DLR supply chain management could be improved to enhance customer support and reduce costs.

DoD Depot-Level Reparable Supply Chain Management: Process Effectiveness and Opportunities for Improvement

Brauner, Marygail K.

Keating, Edward G.

Saltzman, Evan

Tremblay, Daniel

Boren, Patricia

The Defense Logistics Agency faces about $1 billion in inventory obsolescence cost each year due primarily to the high dynamism in demand that it faces. This report examines how to mitigate this cost by improving supply chain agility, focusing on reducing lead times, optimizing order quantities, and mitigating the effects of demand shifts through improved customer information flow and utilization.

Improving DLA Supply Chain Agility: Lead Times, Order Quantities, and Information Flow

Cox, Amy G.

Chan, Edward W.

Hart, George E.

Sommerhauser, Daniel

Hawkins, Caitlin

Connor, Kathryn

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