Organizing and Training Airfield Operations Capabilities for Emerging Expeditionary Operations:Potential Courses of ActionSummary Report
Abstract
Airfield operations (AO) officer and enlisted career fields provide air traffic control; airfield management;and radar, airfield, and weather systems services for the U.S. Air Force (USAF), in-garrison and deployed,during peacetime and contingencies. The AO community faces three challenges in adjusting to a new strategic environment. First is the introduction of the Dynamic Force Employment (DFE) concept involving a transition from centralized, unhardened infrastructure to smaller, dispersed, resilient, adaptive basing, which could increase the demands for AO services. Second, the USAF is developing force employment ideas that are grouped under the term Agile Combat Employment (ACE), which will involve quickly dispersing and clustering forces at different locations in a way that will allow the United States to increase the survivability of its forces.1 Finally, to reduce the strain and prepare to respond to near-peer adversaries while incorporating DFE and ACE concepts,the USAF is implementing a new Air Force Force Generation approach (AFFORGEN).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 17, 2023
- Accession Number
- AD1196155
Entities
People
- Albert Esposito
- Dwayne Butler
- Ignacio Lara
- John Ausink
- John Drew
- Kristin Lynch
- Monica Rico
- Sarah Denton
- Will Shumate
Organizations
- RAND Corporation