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Title Improving Air Force command and control through enhanced agile combat support planning, execution, monitoring, and control processes / Robert S. Tripp [and others].

Imprint Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xlvii, 170 pages) : color illustrations (digital, PDF file).
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series RAND Corporation monograph series ; MG1070
Rand Corporation monograph series ; MG1070.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-170).
Contents Introduction, background, and motivation. -- Approach and analytic framework. -- Agile combat support planning, execution, monitoring, and control AS-IS process shortfalls. -- The vision for meeting agile combat support planning, execution, monitoring, and control shortfalls. -- Agile combat support planning, execution, monitoring, and control doctrine, training, and information systems and tools: AS-IS shortfalls and TO-BE improvement options. -- Agile combat support planning, execution, monitoring, and control organizational structure: AS-IS shortfalls and TO-BE improvement options. -- Conclusions and recommendations. -- Appendixes. -- Bibliography.
Summary Today's defense environment is particularly challenging because (1) significant portions of the force are continuously engaged in a variety of operations, ranging from active combat to humanitarian assistance, over wide geographical areas where the needs for force projection are often difficult to predict, and (2) there is increasing pressure to operate more efficiently. And, although there has always been the need to relate combat support resource requirements to operational objectives, today's environment requires quick combat support actions to tailor deployable support packages and sustainment actions to meet specific operational needs. Furthermore, economic pressures are likely to continue and could result in further reductions in resources that are set aside to meet contingency operations. In addition to economic pressures, the inability to perfectly predict resource demands, the need to shift funding from one category to another to meet unanticipated needs, and the occurrence of unanticipated world events that require intervention contribute to having imbalances between needed agile combat support (ACS) resources and those that are available at any given time to simultaneously meet all requirements for contingency and training operations. This monograph describes ACS process gaps and recommends implementation strategies to facilitate changes needed to improve Air Force command and control through enhanced ACS planning, execution, monitoring, and control processes. The authors recommend a standardized, repeatable process to plan, execute, and control combat support activities focused on operationally relevant metrics; reliance on global managers to identify enterprise capabilities and constraints and relay them to component numbered Air Force staffs for use in their contingency planning and execution actions; and processes for determining which combatant commanders' operations will have priority.
Funding The research described in this report was sponsored by the United States Air Force under Contract FA7014-06-C-0001.
Note Title from PDF title screen (viewed on Dec. 22, 2012).
Language English.
Subject United States. Air Force -- Operational readiness.
États-Unis. Air Force -- État de préparation opérationnelle.
United States. Air Force
Command and control systems -- United States.
Military planning -- United States.
Commandement militaire -- États-Unis.
Planification militaire -- États-Unis.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
Command and control systems
Military planning
Armed Forces -- Operational readiness
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Military & Naval Science.
Law, Politics & Government.
Military Administration.
Added Author Tripp, Robert S., 1944-
Project Air Force (U.S.)
Rand Corporation.
ISBN 9780833083111 (electronic bk.)
0833083112 (electronic bk.)
9780833053091
0833053094
Standard No. AU@ 000061156280
GBVCP 1008658073

 
    
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