Setting Requirements for USAF Maintenance Manpower A Review of Methodology

by Dahlman, Carl J.; Kerchner, Robert; Thaler, David E.

• ISBN13: 9780833031327
• ISBN10: 0833031325
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-29
• Publisher: RAND Corporation

Summary

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 Air Force-wide regulations that establish ceilings on available hours

Table of Contents

Preface	p. iii
Figures	p. ix
Tables	p. xiii
Vignettes	p. xv
Summary	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xxvii
Acronyms	p. xxix
Introduction	p. 1
The Maintenance Force in Context: Supply and Demand	p. 7
The Red Box: How the Logistics Composite Model Works	p. 17
The Red Box: Assessment of How Lcom Is Applied	p. 49
The Blue Box: Bounding Working Hours	p. 81
The White Box: Ample Time for "Everything Else"?	p. 95
A Preliminary Assessment of Shortfalls	p. 123
Recommendations and Conclusions	p. 149
The Exponential Fleet Clock	p. 161
The Break Process in the Real World and in Lcom	p. 165
Rand Questionnaires for Maintainers in the Field	p. 179
Description of the Skill-Mix Model	p. 187
Bibliography	p. 195
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