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Anticipating varied and fast-breaking regional crises in the future, the United States is reassessing how it prepares, maintains, and employs its military forces. Key to this effort is examining the combat support (CS) system, and particularly the command and control of CS forces (CSC2). This research looks at the current operational architecture for incorporating CSC2 and proposes an expanded version of an architecture for the future. Using interviews with personnel, lessons learned from recent operations, and analysis of current CSC2, this report's authors make recommendations to help the Air Force's CS community move to this new architecture. This book builds on previous RAND research and is part of a larger series dedicated to bettering the support of the Air and Space Expeditionary Force. The accompanying CD-ROM contains electronic versions of detailed process diagrams and holds the complete library of notional information products the authors propose.

Deployment (Strategy) --- Command and control systems --- Air power --- Air warfare. --- United States. --- Supplies and stores.

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This report seeks to inform the debate over the extent of U.S. military presence overseas by providing a rigorous estimate of the costs associated with maintaining U.S. Air Force installations and units overseas rather than in the United States. The authors describe the various types of expenditures required to maintain bases and military units overseas and estimate current costs using official data and econometric modeling. They provide a cost model of overseas presence for policymakers to weigh alternative posture options. Their main findings are that while it does cost more to maintain force structures and installations overseas rather than in the United States, the total cost of doing so for the Air Force's current overseas posture is small relative to the Air Force's overall budget.

Air bases, American --- Military planning --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Air Forces --- Costs --- War planning --- American air bases --- Military administration --- Military policy --- Planning --- United States. --- Foreign service --- Costs. --- Supplies and stores --- AF (Air force) --- Air Force (U.S.) --- U.S.A.F. (Air force) --- United States Air Force --- US Air Force --- USAF (Air force) --- Military planning.

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Chemical reactors --- Catalysis --- Mathematical models