Balancing agile combat support manpower to better meet the future security environment / Patrick Mills, John G. Drew, John A. Ausink, Daniel M. Romano, Rachel Costello.
Title
Balancing agile combat support manpower to better meet the future security environment / Patrick Mills, John G. Drew, John A. Ausink, Daniel M. Romano, Rachel Costello.
xiii, 53 pages : illustrations, color graphs; 28 cm.
Summary
"The U.S. Air Force's (USAF's) current approach to sizing and shaping non-maintenance agile combat support (ACS) manpower often results in a discrepancy between the supply of ACS forces and operational demands because much of ACS is sized and shaped to meet the requirements of home-station installation operations, not expeditionary operations. This report proposes a more enterprise-oriented approach to measuring ACS manpower requirements by synthesizing combatant commander operational plans, Defense Planning Scenarios, functional area deployment rules, and subject-matter expert input. Using these new expeditionary metrics to assess the capacity of the current ACS manpower mix to support expeditionary operations, this report finds that there are imbalances among its career fields relative to expeditionary demands. To address these imbalances, it develops and assesses several rebalanced manpower mixes and finds that the USAF can achieve more expeditionary ACS capacity than it currently has by realigning manpower, and it can realize substantial savings by reducing end strength and substituting civilian billets for military billets."--"Abstract" on web page.
"RAND Corporation research report series."--Web page (PDF).
"Research Rreport."--Title page.
"RR-337-AF."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.
"Prepared for the United States Air Force."--Title page.
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Bibliography (note)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 50-53).
Funding (note)
"The research described in this report was sponsored by the United States Air Force under Contract
Processing Action (note)
committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- An Enterprise Approach to Determining ACS Manpower -- Current and Alternative ACS Manpower Mixes -- Additional Considerations for Shaping ACS Forces -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- Appendix.