Research Catalog

Title

Preserving range and airspace access for the Air Force mission : striving for a strategic vantage point / William A. Williams ... [et al.].

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Williams, William A., 1952-
• Project Air Force (U.S.)
• Rand Corporation.

Description

xxv, 73 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps; 28 cm. +

Summary

The Air Force requires access to ranges and their airspace to conduct critical training and testing. Whether or not the service actually owns the facilities, ranges, and airspace it uses, scheduling their use and investments in their infrastructures are challenging and have been becoming more so. Encroachment is one challenge. Communities have continued to spread into what was once rural or low population density land. And then there is the growing challenge of civilian aviation, most notably the Federal Aviation Administration's Next Generation Transportation System. With it and flight trajectory information based on Global Positioning System reporting, air traffic controllers and pilots will soon have dynamic information about U.S. airspace. That authority might extend over test and training range airspace where in emergencies, possibly with bad timing, making military liaisons critical at the national level. Range managers must still fulfill their primary purpose, facilitating realistic tests and training. The best way to do that is to understand what the goals are, what is required to meet them, and why the activity is critical. This report looks at a method that leverages an Air Force centralized scheduling program and, as an example, uses an update of an existing RAND tool (provided on CD) to gain such an understanding.

Series Statement

Report ; TR-874-AF

Uniform Title

Technical report (Rand Corporation) ; TR-874-AF.

Subjects

• United States > Air Force > Airmen > Training of
• Bombing and gunnery ranges > United States > Management
• Air pilots, Military > Training of > United States
• United States > Air Force > Weapons systems > Testing
• Air bases > United States > Management
• Airspace (Law) > United States

Note

• "Prepared for the United States Air Force."
• "Project Air Force."
• Disc contains flight training data sets.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-73).

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online.

Funding (note)

• The research described in this report was sponsored by the United States Air Force under Contract FA7014-06-C-0001.

System Details (note)

• System requirements: Access; CD-ROM drive.

Call Number

JFF 11-802

ISBN

• 0833051407 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780833051400 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC

727074192

Title

Preserving range and airspace access for the Air Force mission : striving for a strategic vantage point / William A. Williams ... [et al.].

Imprint

Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation, 2011.

Series

Report ; TR-874-AF

Technical report (Rand Corporation) ; TR-874-AF.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-73).

Funding

The research described in this report was sponsored by the United States Air Force under Contract FA7014-06-C-0001.

System Details

System requirements: Access; CD-ROM drive.

Additional Formats

Also available online.

Connect to:

http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/technical_reports/2011/RAND_TR874.pdf

Added Author

Williams, William A., 1952-

Project Air Force (U.S.)

Rand Corporation.

Research Call Number

JFF 11-802 [Text]

*WGC-7285 [CD-ROM]