MANPOWER: A Model of Tactical Aircraft Maintenance Personnel Requirements. Volume 1. Overview of Model Development and Application

Abstract

This report describes MANPOWER, a computer model for predicting the total force base-level maintenance personnel requirements of prospective aircraft in the USAF Tactical Air Command. The model is designed to be used early in the acquisition process when it is desirable to understand the probable total maintenance personnel requirements of proposed weapon systems. MANPOWER requires inputs concerning mission types, sortie rates, sortie lengths, deployment patterns, squadron size, peacetime base sizes, and maintenance workload. The workload can be expressed as maintenance manhours per flying hour or, if more information is available, in terms of mean-time-between-failures and mean-time-to-repair at the second digit work unit code level. Model output includes estimates of personnel requirements for the total force, for individual base size/deployment patterns, for maintenance squadrons, for officers and enlisted personnel, for overhead and supervision, and for major individual shops and groups of work centers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA069886

Entities

People

  • C. D. Roach
  • J. F. Schank
  • J. Y. Lu
  • K. M. Bloomberg
  • W. S. Furry

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Avionics
  • Computer Programs
  • Control Systems
  • Electronic Countermeasures
  • Fuel Systems
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Management
  • Maintenance Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Penetration Aids
  • Reconnaissance Aircraft
  • Repair Shops
  • Tactical Aircraft

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.