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Author Mills, Patrick, 1975- author.

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
Published Santa Monica, CA : RAND, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 53 pages) : color illustrations
Series Research report ; RR-337-AF
Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-337-AF.
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
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
Notes "The analysis was conducted within the Resource Management Program of RAND Project Air Force"--Preface
"RAND Project Air Force."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 50-53)
Notes English
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Subject United States. Air Force -- Combat sustainability.
United States. Air Force -- Personnel management
United States. Air Force -- Operational readiness
SUBJECT United States. Air Force fast
Subject Military planning -- United States
Manpower -- United States
HISTORY -- Military -- Aviation.
Armed Forces -- Combat sustainability
Armed Forces -- Operational readiness
Armed Forces -- Personnel management
Manpower
Military planning
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Costello, Rachel, author.
Romano, Daniel M., author.
Ausink, John A., author.
Drew, John G., 1956- author.
United States. Air Force
Rand Corporation, issuing body.
Project Air Force (U.S.). Resource Management Program
ISBN 9780833090010
0833090011