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To help improve the Air Force's ability to forsee the implications for safety, aircraft availability and cost of its plans to retain aircraft fleets for service lives that may last 80 years, this study measures how aircraft fleets ages relate to maintenance workloads and material consumption.

Airplanes, Military --- Maintenance and repair. --- United States. --- Ground support.

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The goal of the Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF) is to be a rapidly deployable strategic force. This book argues that consolidating F-15 avionics intermediate maintenance and supporting operations from regional support bases would be a better way of achieving that goal than is presently used.

Avionics --- Eagle (Jet fighter plane) --- Maintenance and repair. --- United States. --- Aviation --- Ground support. --- Procurement --- Evaluation.

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In 1995, RAND was asked to support a study, called the C-17 Tactical Utility Analysis (TUA), to examine possible roles for the C-17 as an in-theater airlifter. The study, conducted by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Program Analysis and Evaluation (OSD[PA & E]), with the support of the Services, found a need for up to a squadron of C 17s operating in-theater during major regional contingencies. The work described in this Documented Briefing used the same assumptions as those in the Tactical Utility Analysis, but a different analytic approach, thereby helping to validate the findings. RAND had two objectives in its support of the TUA: one to estimate the capacity of airfields to support air mobility operations and the other to evaluate possible concepts of operation for in-theater C-17 operations. The first objective is addressed in James P. Stucker, Ruth T. Berg, et al., Understanding Airfield Capacity for Airlift Operations, Santa Monica, CA: RAND, MR-700-AF/OSD (forthcoming). This Documented Briefing addresses the second objective. The authors conclude that there is a robust role for about one squadron of 12 C-17s in-theater during major regional contingencies. However, this number holds only if the assumption is made that the aircraft must be assigned to the theater for the entire duration of the contingency. Even greater benefit may be obtained by deploying more C-17s for in-theater operations during some parts of the contingency and fewer at other times.

Airlift, Military --- C-17 (Jet transport) --- Deployment (Strategy) --- United States. --- Ground support.

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Astronautics --- -Astronautics --- -Data transmission systems --- -Ground support systems (Astronautics) --- -Communication systems --- -Congresses --- Data processing --- Congresses

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As part of a larger study of support for Expeditionary Aerospace Forces, this work addresses logistics structure alternatives for meeting demands for Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night (LANTIRN) across a spectrum of operational requirements.

LANTIRN (Military aeronautics). --- LANTIRN (Military aeronautics) --- Maintenance and repair. --- United States. --- Equipment --- Ground support.