User's Guide for the Total Force Blue-Line (TFBL) Model

Abstract

This user's guide describes the Total Force Blue-Line (TFBL) model, which predicts future inventory for the Regular Air Force, Air Force Reserve, and Air National Guard and accounts for interactions among them. This guide contains detailed instructions for running the model, including steps to follow, the inputs to use, how the inputs can be generated, and a list of steps for generating red-line/blue-line charts. It also provides an overview of the TFBL model and the logic behind it; descriptions of additional excursions, including a discussion of major airline hiring excursions and the impact of major airline hiring on the Air Force Total Force blue-line projections; and detailed and specific information on the input data and the output files. Finally, the appendix contains an exhaustive list of all versions of data created or used in all previous model runs for completeness and for reproducibility.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1086742

Entities

People

  • James H. Bigelow
  • James Pita
  • Jerry M. Sollinger
  • Paul Emslie
  • Tara L. Terry

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Personnel
  • Air National Guard
  • Airborne Warning And Control System
  • Basic Programming Language
  • Command And Control
  • Commercial Aviation
  • Control Systems
  • Data Sets
  • Delphi Method
  • Employment
  • Linear Programming
  • Personnel Management
  • Training
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Computer Science.