Reflecting Warfighter Needs in Air Force Programs: Prototype Analysis

Paul K. Davis ; Richard Hillestad ; Duncan Long ; Paul Dreyer ; Brandon T. Dues

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation

关键词: Military Logistics;    National Security;   

ISBN  :  9780833049490
RP-ID  :  TR-754-AF

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: RAND Corporation Published Research

【 摘 要 】

A concern within the Air Force is that headquarters-level program decisions sometimes fail to give sufficient priority to requests important to meeting warfighter needs. This technical report documents a phase-one effort to develop new methods to help ensure that warfighter needs are adequately represented as the Air Force manages its programs and budget. Drawing on previous RAND work on capabilities-based planning and portfolio management, the authors outline a method that considers measures of combat effectiveness, as well as cost-effectiveness from multiple perspectives, to compare composite options — that is, options involving multiple platforms and capabilities — for accomplishing a given mission. The authors illustrate the method by applying it to the mission of close air support, using notional data.