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As part of a body of research defining and evaluating the concept of Lean Logistics for the U.S. Air Force, this report considers the effects on operation of the C-5 Galaxy airlift aircraft of radically reducing the time required to move and repair aircraft components. Lean Logistics updates Air Force logistics operations by applying technology and management innovations that have proven effective in the commercial world, are relevant to the central supply problems of the Air Force, and are affordable. The analysis in this study used Air Force data to drive simulations of C-5 logistics operations and considered peacetime flying programs. This study found that a high-velocity infrastructure would provide C-5 performance that is the same as or better than that provided by the current infrastructure across a wide range of conditions and circumstances. A high-velocity infrastructure would require only one-sixth the amount of inventory at one-third the cost of the current infrastructure to produce the same operational performance.
Airplanes, Military --- C-5A (Jet transports) --- Just-in-time systems --- Galaxy (Jet transport) --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Air Forces --- JIT systems --- Just-in-time manufacturing --- Kanban --- Production control --- C-5 (Jet transport) --- Lockheed C-5 (Jet transport) --- Lockheed Galaxy (Jet transport) --- Jet transports --- Lockheed aircraft --- Aeroplanes, Military --- Military airplanes --- War planes --- Warplanes --- Aeronautics, Military --- Government aircraft --- Air warfare --- Maintenance and repair --- Cost control. --- Management. --- Maintenance and repair. --- Cost control --- Management --- Just-in-time systems.
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The current strategic airlift fleet will be reaching the end of its service life in the next few decades, which has raised concerns about the cost and possible budget spike that would result from the need to recapitalize that fleet. This monograph presents the results of a cost-effectiveness analysis to determine the best way to recapitalize the USAF intertheater (strategic) airlift fleet. The authors examined a broad range of aircraft alternatives, including existing and emerging technologies, and permutations of USAF plans for the current fleet with a view to meeting projected requirements while minimizing life-cycle costs and smoothing out spending peaks. The expected demand for airlift was modeled against the capabilities of each alternative aircraft to form a set of alternative fleet compositions to meet that demand. The authors then estimated the cost for each of the options to determine those that were the most cost-effective. The most cost-effective option involved a highly advanced conceptual design, which represents significant risk. The next most cost-effective options hedge this risk by starting with commercial derivatives as aircraft retire, followed later by a highly advanced aircraft.
Airlift, Military --- Galaxy (Jet transport) --- C-17 (Jet transport) --- Globemaster III (Jet transport) --- C-5 (Jet transport) --- C-5A (Jet transports) --- Lockheed C-5 (Jet transport) --- Lockheed Galaxy (Jet transport) --- Air transport, Military --- Military airlift --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Military Administration --- Planning --- Costs --- Jet planes, Military --- Jet transports --- McDonnell Douglas aircraft --- Airplanes, Military --- Lockheed aircraft --- Aeronautics, Military --- Transportation, Military --- United States. --- Appropriations and expenditures. --- AF (Air force) --- Air Force (U.S.) --- U.S.A.F. (Air force) --- United States Air Force --- US Air Force --- USAF (Air force) --- AMC --- Planning.
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