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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 This ¶ is a kludge to fix a bug in MS Word. Don't delete it! 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 This ¶ is a kludge to fix a bug in MS Word. Don't delete it! 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 This ¶ is a kludge to fix a bug in MS Word. Don't delete it!
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
United States. Air Force -- Supplies and stores.
Deployment (Strategy).
Airlift, Military -- United States.