A Framework for Enhancing Airlift and Execution Capabilities within the Joint Expeditionary Movement System

by Tripp, Robert S.; Lynch, Kristin F.; Roll, Charles Robert; Drew, John G.; Mills, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9780833038333
• ISBN10: 0833038338
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-15
• Publisher: RAND Corporation

Summary

How can the Air Force improve the planning and execution activities associated with developing intratheater airlift operations witin the military joint end to end miltomodal movement system?

Table of Contents

Preface	p. iii
Figures	p. xiii
Tables	p. xv
Summary	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xxvii
Abbreviations	p. xxxi
Introduction	p. 1
Motivation for the Analysis	p. 1
Focus and Scope of the Analysis	p. 4
Analytic Approach	p. 6
Related Activities	p. 9
Organization of This Report	p. 10
Strategies-to-Tasks and Closed-Loop Planning Applied to Theater Airlift	p. 11
The Theater Airlift Planning and Execution STT Framework	p. 12
National Security Objectives	p. 12
National Military Objectives	p. 13
Regional Operational Objectives	p. 14
Theater Airlift Planning and Execution Operational Tasks	p. 15
Theater Airlift Planning and Execution Force Elements	p. 17
Theater Airlift Planning and Execution Closed-Loop Planning and Execution Processes	p. 17
Deployment	p. 17
Sustainment	p. 18
Resource Allocation Within the STT Framework	p. 19
Nested Responsibilities	p. 23
Shortfalls in the AS-IS Theater Airlift Planning and Execution System	p. 27
AS-IS Theater Airlift Planning and Execution Process Shortfalls	p. 28
AS-IS Process Shortfall Examples	p. 36
AS-IS Theater Airlift Planning and Execution Organizational and Doctrine Shortfalls	p. 43
AS-IS Theater Airlift Planning and Execution Training Shortfalls	p. 46
AS-IS Theater Airlift Planning and Execution Communications, Systems, and Asset Visibility Shortfalls	p. 47
Summary of AS-IS Theater Airlift Planning and Execution Shortfalls	p. 55
Evaluation of TO-BE Improvement Options	p. 59
TO-BE Process Improvements	p. 59
TO-BE Process Improvement Challenges	p. 63
TO-BE Organizational Improvement Options	p. 64
Planning Responsibilities Assigned to Existing Organizations Following the Expanded STT Framework	p. 65
Planning Responsibilities Assigned to a New End-to-End Line Organization Following the Expanded STT Framework	p. 66
Another Organizational Option	p. 70
Applying Reachback to the STT-Suggested Improvements	p. 71
Assessment of TO-BE Organizational Improvement Options	p. 72
TO-BE Organizational Improvement Challenges	p. 74
TO-BE Doctrine and Training Improvement Options	p. 75
TO-BE Communications, Systems, and Asset Visibility Improvement Options	p. 77
TO-BE Improvement Summary	p. 80
Summary and Conclusions	p. 83
Appendix
Theater Distribution System Analyses Contributing Organizations	p. 85
The Strategies-to-Tasks Framework and a Closed-Loop Planning and Execution Process	p. 87
Closed-Loop Planning and Execution Example	p. 93
Illustrative Example of Reachback in the Air Mobility Division	p. 99
Reachback Decision Tree	p. 107
Evolved CENTCOM Intratheater Airlift Planning Process	p. 109
Bibliography	p. 113
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