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This report provides the results of Air Force weapon system cost growth analyses based on the RAND Corporation's internal Selected Acquisition Report database. The database provides consistent, current metrics to support analyses both within RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF) and in the Air Force acquisition community. This work assesses, quantifies, and documents cost and schedule growth of Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) and provides data and detailed program histories.

Air Forces --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- United States. --- Appropriations and expenditures. --- Weapons systems --- Costs. --- AF (Air force) --- Air Force (U.S.) --- U.S.A.F. (Air force) --- United States Air Force --- US Air Force --- USAF (Air force)

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The focus of this analysis is on how enhanced ACS processes can be implemented and integrated into the Air Force and Joint command and control (C2) enterprise. Using the vision for enhanced C2 provided in the updated architecture developed as a companion piece to this analysis, we identify and describe where shortfalls or major gaps exist between current ACS processes (the AS-IS) and the vision for integrating enhanced ACS processes into Air Force C2 (the TO-BE). We evaluate C2 nodes from the level of the President and Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) to the units and sources of supply. We also evaluate these nodes across the operational phases, from readiness preparation through planning, deployment, employment, sustainment, and reconstitution.

Command and control systems --- Military planning --- United States. --- Operational readiness. --- AF (Air force) --- Air Force (U.S.) --- U.S.A.F. (Air force) --- United States Air Force --- US Air Force --- USAF (Air force)

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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.

Airplanes, Military. --- Airplanes, Military --- Air pilots, Military --- Maintenance and repair. --- United States. --- Operational readiness. --- United States --- Air National Guard. --- Military air pilots --- AF --- Air Force (U.S.) --- U.S.A.F. --- United States Air Force --- US Air Force --- USAF --- Militia --- Air National Guard --- Air pilots --- Aeronautics, Military --- AF (Air force) --- U.S.A.F. (Air force) --- USAF (Air force)

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The United States Air Force materiel sustainment system (MSS) is continually caught between two countervailing pressures: demands for increased efficiency and lower costs on one side versus demands for increasingly effective support to combat operations and peacetime training on the other. Furthermore, the demands on the MSS are unpredictable and change rapidly. The authors contend that implementation of a common operating picture (COP) would make the Air Force MSS both more efficient and more flexible and responsive to changing needs.

Airplanes, Military. --- manpower. --- Airplanes, Military --- Logistics --- Military & Naval Science --- Air Forces --- Law, Politics & Government --- Maintenance and repair --- Logistics. --- Maintenance and repair. --- United States. --- Equipment. --- AF --- Air Force (U.S.) --- U.S.A.F. --- United States Air Force --- US Air Force --- USAF --- Military art and science --- AF (Air force) --- U.S.A.F. (Air force) --- USAF (Air force)

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"Members of Air Force specialties that normally work inside the defended perimeter of a base or deployed location may sometimes have to cross that perimeter. What might seem fairly benign in some locations, such as Germany, would be hazardous in others, such as Iraq. And some initially deployed to a "safe" location may be redeployed to a more hazardous one. While those who routinely go "outside the wire" receive appropriate training, the others historically have not. The Air Force is thus seeking to establish common battlefield airman training (CBAT) and asked RAND Project Air Force to examine the content and resources both for this course and a companion course for non-ground combat personnel. RAND conducted surveys and interviews to determine the kinds of experiences airmen have had "outside the wire" and worked with subject-matter experts to categorize them and suggest appropriate types and amounts of training for them. This report presents the results of these activities."--Publisher's website

Aeronautics, Military. --- Electronic books. --- Aeronautics, Military --- Air Forces --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Study and teaching --- United States. --- Airmen. --- Military aeronautics --- Military aviation --- AF --- Air Force (U.S.) --- U.S.A.F. --- United States Air Force --- US Air Force --- USAF --- Military art and science --- Air pilots, Military --- AF (Air force) --- U.S.A.F. (Air force) --- USAF (Air force)