Table of contents for Supporting air and space expeditionary forces : capabilities and sustainability of air and space expeditionary forces under current and alternative policies / Don Snyder ... [et al.].

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Preface	iii
RAND Project AIR FORCE	iv
Figures	ix
Tables	xi
Summary	xiii
Defining AEF capabilities	xvi
Analyzing AEF capabilities	xviii
Applications	xix
Provides Vocabulary for Articulating AEF Capabilities	xix
Helps Identify Factors That Limit Deployment Capabilities	xx
Provides Analytic Basis for Balancing Resources	xx
Provides Analytical Foundation for Exploring Alternative AEF 
Policies	xx
Permits Analyses to Guide Both Planning and Execution	xx
Recommendations	xxi
Acknowledgments	xxii
Acronyms	xxiii
1. Introduction	1
Policies for an Expeditionary Air Force	2
Scope Of This Study And Outline Of Report	6
2. Measuring AEF Capabilities	7
Defining Deployment Capability	8
Determining Resource Requirements for a Deployment Capability	13
The START Model	14
Assessing AEF Capabilities	16
Incorporating Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Call-Up 
Status	17
Assessing Availability Based on Authorized Force Levels Vs. UTC 
Readiness Status	17
Assessing Availability of UTCs for Deployment	18
Measuring Capability by UTCs and AFSCs	19
Using Multiple Metrics to Assess AEF Capability	21
AEF Deployment Planning	21
3. A Decision Support Tool for AEF Capability Analysis / AEF DCAT	25
Databases	25
AEF Libraries	25
Manpower Force Packaging System	30
AEF UTC Reporting Tool	30
Equipment Databases	32
The AEF Depolyment Capabilities Assessment Tool	32
AEF DCAT's Relational Database	36
Manpower Resources, Their AEF Rotational Limits, and AEF DCAT	38
4. Illustrative Applications of AEF Capabilities and Sustainment 
Analysis	40
Creating Fighter Bare Bases	40
Supporting Theater Operations	47
Conclusions from Sample Calculations	52
5. Conclusions and Recommendations	55
A. Computer Hardware and Software Requirements for the START and AEF 
DCAT Models	59
B. AEF DCAT's Architecture	61
Web Program's Flowchart	61
A Tour of Graphical User Interface	62
Web Site Map	64
Database Schema	65
Bibliography	67
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FIGURES
Figure 1.1; Distribution of UTCs Between AEFs and Enablers for Several 
Functional Areas	5
Figure 2.1; Numbers and Types of Aircraft Deployed for Thirty Recent 
Sites	11
Figure 2.2; Methodology for Optimistic Manpower Capability Analysis	21
Figure 2.3; Flow Chart of Analytical Tools to Support AEF Planning	22
Figure 3.1; Number of Security Forces UTCs by NSUTC Code for Each MAJCOM
	29
Figure 3.2; AEF DCAT as an Analytic Environment	33
Figure 3.3; AEF DCAT Sample Resource Summary: Graph	34
Figure 3.4; AEF DCAT Sample Resource Summary: Data Table	35
Figure 3.5; AEF DCAT Sample AEF Capability Measure: Manpower	35
Figure 3.6; AEF DCAT Sample AEF Capability Measure: Equipment UTCs	36
Figure 3.7; Sample AEF DCAT's Database Query	37
Figure 4.1; UTC-Constrained Marginal Fuels Manpower Deployment Capability 
for 1.0 Sorties per Day per Aircraft for 24 F-16CGs for an Average 
AEF Pair	41
Figure 4.2; AFSC-Constrained Marginal Fuels Manpower Deployment 
Capability for 1.0 Sorties per Day per Aircraft for 24 F-16CGs for 
an Average AEF Pair	43
Figure 4.3; UTC-Constrained Marginal Fuels Manpower Deployment Capability 
for 2.0 Sorties Per Day Per Aircraft for 24 F-16CGs for an Average 
AEF Pair	45
Figure 4.4; Equipment-Constrained Marginal Fuels Deployment Capability 
for 1.0 Sorties per Day per Aircraft for 24 F-16CGs	46
Figure 4.5; Steady-State Coded, UTC-Constrained Manpower deployment 
Capability for Six Functional Areas for an Average AEF Pair	47
Figure 4.6; UTC-Constrained, Steady-State Residual Marginal Fire 
Protection Deployment Capability in an Average AEF Pair As a 
Function of Basing Structure	49
Figure 4.7; AFSC-Constrained, Steady-State Residual Marginal Fire 
Protection Deployment Capability in an Average AEF Pair As a 
Function of Basing Structure	51
Figure A.1; AEF DCAT in the Web Environment	59
Figure B.1; Flowchart of AEF DCAT's Web Programs	61
Figure B.2; Initial Screen of AEF DCAT's Graphical User Interface	62
Figure B.3; A Typical Second Screen of AEF DCAT's User Interface	63
Figure B.4; Importing User-Specified START File	64
Figure B.5; Web Design of AEF DCAT	65
Figure B.6; Part of AEF DCAT's Database Schema	66
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TABLES
	
Table 2.1	16
Functional Coverage of START Model	16
Table 3.1	28
UTC Availability Codes	28
Table 3.2	33
AEF DCAT's Manpower Functional Coverage	33
Table 3.3	37
Partial List of AEF DCAT's Database Tables	37
Table 4.1	48
Aircraft for Notional Theater-Base Deployment Capability	48
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Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

United States. Air Force -- Supplies and stores.
Deployment (Strategy).
Airlift, Military -- United States.