Setting Requirements for Maintenance Manpower in the U.S. Air Force
Setting Requirements for Maintenance Manpower in the U.S. Air Force

Author: Carl Johan Dahlman

Publisher: Rand Corporation

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 9780833031327

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Over the past decade, the United States Air Force has faced a variety of unforeseen challenges. On the one hand, a significant portion of the force has been engaged in a range of contingency as well as peacekeeping operations. On the other hand, a once-robust economy led many to leave the force in unexpected numbers during the 1990s. The result has been a mismatch between Air Force taskings and available personnel. This report outlines the findings of a study whose objective was twofold: first, to review the methodology that the Air Force uses to determine active-duty enlisted manpower requirements in aircraft maintenance; and second, to investigate whether these requirements and their resulting authorizations have been underestimated. Toward this goal, the study assesses the Logistics Composite Model (LCOM), a statistical simulation model that the Air Force uses to gauge direct maintenance man-hours, as well as the AirForce-wide regulations that establish ceilings on available hours. The report concludes that maintenance manpower requirements are in fact underestimated in the Air Force, largely because the service's manpower processes do not adequately account for all the tasks that maintainers in the field must undertake. Accordingly, the report recommends that Air Force policies and analytical tools be reexamined and appropriately refined to better reflect maintenance manpower needs.

Options for Meeting the Maintenance Demands of Active Associate Flying Units
Options for Meeting the Maintenance Demands of Active Associate Flying Units

Author: John G. Drew

Publisher: Rand Corporation

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 0833042106

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"The methodology developed in this research can be used to quantify and compare the key factors that allow the U.S. Air National Guard to generate peacetime training sorties with a fairly small full-time workforce. The authors apply these insights to proposed Total Force Integration initiatives to evaluate maintenance options for supporting associate units, where the goal of the unit is to produce trained pilots in the most efficient manner possible. The methodology evaluates how various types of personnel can influence the size and productivity of a unit." -- publisher's website.

Maintaining the Balance Between Manpower, Skill Levels, and PERSTEMPO
Maintaining the Balance Between Manpower, Skill Levels, and PERSTEMPO

Author: Raymond E. Conley

Publisher: Rand Corporation

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 0833039512

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Air Force units have found differences between authorized and actual numbers of personnel, partly because of deployments. Using historical and other data and interviews, the authors assessed the wing-level effects of these disparities including skill levels and personnel tempo. The recommendations include improvements in manpower bookkeeping and requirement determination, use of dynamic simulation models, and implementation of suitable metrics.

Fiscally Informed Total Force Manpower
Fiscally Informed Total Force Manpower

Author: Harry Thie

Publisher: Rand Corporation

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 0833044184

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Presents the results of a short-term review of 27 publicly available manpower studies to discover methods that other organizations could use to make "fiscally informed" manpower decisions. The studies exhibit varying methods for determining manpower requirements; however, the method used may not be as important as other attributes, such as the direct involvement of a senior decisionmaker.

Strategic Analysis of Air National Guard Combat Support and Reachback Functions
Strategic Analysis of Air National Guard Combat Support and Reachback Functions

Author: Robert S. Tripp

Publisher: Rand Corporation

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 0833038842

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VANGUARD is the Air National Guard (ANG) long-range transformation program. It calls for the ANG to evaluate new concepts, prepare for new missions, and adopt a new culture that capitalizes on ANG strengths and ensures that the ANG continues to add value as warfighters and to warfighters in the future while remaining ready, reliable and accessible. One way to support warfighting and warfighters is to continue to support the Air and Space Expeditionary Force (AEF), a concept developed by the Air Force to allow quick response, when appropriate, to national security interests with a tailored, sustainable force. The ANG already plays an important role in the AEF during wartime operations. This monograph evaluates options for Air National Guard combat support and reachback missions in four Air Force mission areas to support the AEF, investigates transformational opportunities for the ANG that would add the most value in achieving the desired operational effects, and considers how changes in unit and above-unit policies are likely to affect Total Force capabilities. It should be of interest to logisticians, operators, and mobility planners throughout the Department of Defense, especially those in the Air National Guard and active Air Force.

Facilities Staffing Requirements for the Veterans Health Administrationâ¬"Resource Planning and Methodology for the Future
Facilities Staffing Requirements for the Veterans Health Administrationâ¬

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2020-04-30

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 0309492912

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The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is America's largest integrated health care system, providing care at 1,243 health care facilities, including 172 medical centers and 1,063 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity, serving 9 million enrolled Veterans each year. In addition, VHA has opened outpatient clinics and established telemedicine and other services to accommodate a diverse veteran population and continues to cultivate ongoing medical research and innovation. Facilities specific to VHA fulfill clinical, operational, research laboratory, and administrative functions. Each site is designed to serve a geographical location with specific health care needs. VHA's building inventory has sites of different ages, and often there is a mix of building size and age at each site or campus. At the request of the VHA, this study presents a comprehensive resource planning and staffing methodology guidebook for VHA Facility Management Programs by reviewing the tasks of VHA building facilities staff and recommending actions for the VHA to meet the mission goals of delivering patient care, research, and effective operations.

Handbook of Military Industrial Engineering
Handbook of Military Industrial Engineering

Author: Adedeji B. Badiru

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2009-02-25

Total Pages: 830

ISBN-13: 1420066293

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In light of increasing economic and international threats, military operations must be examined with a critical eye in terms of process design, management, improvement, and control. Although the Pentagon and militaries around the world have utilized industrial engineering (IE) concepts to achieve this goal for decades, there has been no single reso

Assessing Unit Readiness
Assessing Unit Readiness

Author: David E. Thaler

Publisher: RAND Corporation

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13:

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THe U.S. Air Force has recently confronted a host of challenges in its efforts to maintian military readiness. This briefing focuses on the nature of those challenges in an air mobility wing at Travis Air Force Base, California. It conclude that maintainers and aircrews alike have in fact been subjected to myraid pressures, many of them conflicting, and that these pressures have adversely overall productivity. Viable solutions to these problems, however, must address all aspects of unit readiness.