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Seed supply --- Seed technology --- Seed industry and trade --- Agricultural innovations

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Agricultural innovations --- Sustainable agriculture --- Farms, Small

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VANGUARD is the Air National Guard (ANG) long-range transformation program. It calls for the ANG to evaluate new concepts, prepare for new missions, and adopt a new culture that capitalizes on ANG strengths and ensures that the ANG continues to add value as warfighters and to warfighters in the future while remaining ready, reliable and accessible. One way to support warfighting and warfighters is to continue to support the Air and Space Expeditionary Force (AEF), a concept developed by the Air Force to allow quick response, when appropriate, to national security interests with a tailored, sustainable force. The ANG already plays an important role in the AEF during wartime operations. This monograph evaluates options for Air National Guard combat support and reachback missions in four Air Force mission areas to support the AEF, investigates transformational opportunities for the ANG that would add the most value in achieving the desired operational effects, and considers how changes in unit and above-unit policies are likely to affect Total Force capabilities. It should be of interest to logisticians, operators, and mobility planners throughout the Department of Defense, especially those in the Air National Guard and active Air Force.

Airplanes, Military --- Operational art (Military science) --- Maintenance and repair. --- United States. --- Equipment --- Supplies and stores. --- United States --- Air National Guard.

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For more than 15 years, the U.S. Air Force has been continually engaged in deployed operations in Southwest Asia and in other locations. Recent Office of the Secretary of Defense planning guidance directs the services to plan for high levels of engagement and deployed operations, although their nature, locations, durations, and intensity may be unknown. Recognizing that this new guidance might impose different demands on the logistics system, senior Air Force logistics leaders asked RAND Project AIR FORCE to undertake a logistics enterprise analysis. This analysis aims to identify and rethink the basic issues and premises on which the Air Force plans, organizes, and operates its logistics enterprise. This monograph synthesizes the results of the initial phases of the logistics enterprise study. It describes an analysis of repair network options to support three series of aircraft: C-130, KC-135, and F-16. It assesses the effect of consolidating certain scheduled maintenance tasks and off-equipment component repair at centralized repair facilities. It also discusses an initial assessment of maintenance concepts that integrate wing-level and depot-level maintenance processes. Consolidated wing-level scheduled inspections and component back-shop maintenance capabilities would be more effective and efficient than the current system, in which every wing has significant maintenance capabilities to accomplish these activities.

Airplanes, Military --- Hercules (Turboprop transports) --- F-16 (Jet fighter plane) --- KC-135 (Tanker aircraft) --- Maintenance and repair --- Management --- Evaluation. --- United States. --- Equipment

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This report documents the history of the interactions between RAND Corporation logistics researchers and Air Force leaders over more than 40 years to inform decisions involving logistics planning, programming, and budgeting and to develop, maintain, and evolve an approach for improving the Air Force logistics system. The narrative covers a period in which the demands made on the Air Force logistics system became more dynamic, complex, and costly—an era in which increasingly sophisticated weapons were joined by a growing appreciation for the importance of readiness, sustainability, system reliability, and uncertainty in Air Force and RAND thinking about military logistics. These reflections illustrate why the impact of expert research and analysis on entities as large and complex as the Air Force logistics system is sometimes not immediate. Although the path to impact is not always straightforward, a vision of clear principles can help guide logistics and other forms of research over time. By retaining deep knowledge and expertise in logistics and in the overarching themes that have guided RAND's logistics research for the Air Force over the past 40 years, RAND researchers can be ready to engage on these key themes and enduring questions over the long term.

Logistics --- Research --- United States. --- Rand Corporation --- Rand Corporation. --- Supplies and stores --- History. --- Procurement