USAF Aircraft Maintenance Organizational Structure: Where We've Been, Where We Are, What's the Future

Abstract

An analysis of the various organizational structures used to support aircraft maintenance in the Air Force. The author examines the evolution of the different concepts use in the three primary flying major commands; MAC, SAC and TAC; beginning in 1947, just prior the Air Force becoming a separate service. The evolutionary analysis reveals that the Air Force alternated several times between a centralized and decentralized maintenance concept before arriving at the present situation. Currently, each major command has developed a maintenance organizational concept uniquely tailored to its particular mission. The author concludes that this is the most effective way to manage and organize USAF aircraft maintenance organizations and no attempt should be made to standardize concepts Air Force wide. The paper concludes with a discussion of how three future events may effect aircraft maintenance organizational concepts. Those three events are consolidation of maintenance AFSCs, budgetary constraints, and reliability and maintainability initiatives.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA202701

Entities

People

  • Thomas E. Reiter

Organizations

  • Air War College

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Air Force Personnel
  • Aircraft Maintenance
  • Aircrafts
  • Airlift Operations
  • Engineering
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Management
  • Maintenance Personnel
  • Management Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Standards
  • United States
  • War Colleges

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