Supporting Expeditionary Forces An Analysis of F-15 Avionics Options,9780833029058

Supporting Expeditionary Forces An Analysis of F-15 Avionics Options

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ISBN13: 9780833029058
ISBN10: 0833029053
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Pub. Date: 2001-02-12
Publisher(s): RAND Corporation
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface iii
Figures
xi
Tables
xiii
Summary xv
Acknowledgments xxiii
Acronyms xxvii
Introduction
1(14)
Evolving Operational and Logistics Requirements
1(3)
The Cold War Origins of Today's System
2(1)
New Logistics Challenges
2(2)
The Agile Combat Support System of the Future
4(5)
A New ACS Concept That Mixes CONUS and Forward-Based Assets
4(4)
Implications of This New ACS Concept for F-15 Avionics
8(1)
Analysis Approach
9(3)
ACS General Analytic Approach
9(2)
Evaluations Across a Spectrum of Operational Requirements
11(1)
Objective and Organization of Report
12(3)
Support Structure Options and the Decision Space
15(14)
Support Structures
17(7)
The Current Decentralized System
18(2)
Eliminating Maintenance Deployment from the Decentralized Structure
20(1)
Consolidated Maintenance Structures
21(3)
Range of OST Assumptions
24(1)
Tester Configuration Options
25(4)
Resource Requirements Determination Models
29(16)
The ACS Evaluation General Analytic Approach
29(1)
Mission Requirements Determination
30(1)
Support Requirements
31(1)
Maintenance Shop Requirements Model
31(5)
Demand on a Test Station Type
33(2)
Test Station Capacity
35(1)
Tester Quantity Calculation
36(1)
Personnel Requirements Modeling
36(1)
Transportation Modeling Approach
36(1)
Spare-Parts Modeling Approach
37(5)
Wartime Readiness Spare Package Computations
38(1)
RSP Policy for the Decentralized (Current) Structures
38(2)
RSP Policy for the Decentralized-No-Deployment Structure
40(1)
RSP Policy for Consolidated Structures
40(2)
Peactime Operating Stock
42(1)
Determining Infrastructure Requirement Changes
42(3)
Resource Requirements
45(14)
Operational Employment Requirements
45(1)
Maintenance Requirements
46(1)
Reduction of Tester Requirements
47(3)
Consolidation Effect of Discrete Capacity Levels
48(1)
Consolidation Effect of Load Smoothing
49(1)
Shortages of Certain Testers in Today's System
50(1)
Excess Testers Permit MTW Tester Capacity During Peacetime at All FSLs
50(1)
Personnel Requirements
51(1)
Spare-Parts Requirements
52(3)
Peacetime Transportation Requirements
55(1)
Infrastructure Requirements
56(3)
Options Analysis
59(26)
Minimize Cost
59(11)
Tester Costs
59(2)
Personnel Costs
61(1)
Spare-Parts Costs
62(3)
Transportation Cost
65(1)
Infrastructure Change Costs
66(2)
Total Cost
68(2)
Reduce Personnel Turbulence
70(7)
Minimize Deployment Footprint
77(1)
Minimize Operational Risks
78(5)
Resupply Risk
78(1)
Flightline Reliance on Local Maintenance Resupply in Decentralization
79(1)
In Consolidated Systems and the Decentralized-No-Deployment Structure, Resupply Depends on Establishment of a Theater Distribution System
80(2)
Potential Delays in Establishing ``Resupply'' Also Pose Risk in the Decentralized-Deployment Structure
82(1)
Inventory Risk
82(1)
Enhance Flexibility
83(1)
Spin-Up Time
84(1)
Additional Opportunities to Improve Logistics Systems with Consolidated Structures
85(10)
Increased Tester Uptime and AIS Throughput
85(1)
Reducing Maintenance Wait Time
86(3)
Reducing OSTs
89(1)
Sharing Resources in the System of the Future
90(1)
A Potential Strategy for Reducing Marginal Inventory Investment in Consolidated Structures
91(4)
Conclusion
95(32)
Decentralized With AIS Deployment Structure
95(1)
Decentralized Without AIS Deployment Structure
96(1)
Consolidated Structures
97(1)
Test of an F-15 Regional Repair FSL
98(1)
Conclusion
99(2)
Appendix
A. Tester Requirements Model
101(12)
B. Tester Requirements Model Data
113(12)
C. Model Output
125(2)
Bibliography 127

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