Deployment and Automated Technical Order Support
Abstract
The future capability of the Air Force to deploy and sustain its forces successfully will depend as much on modern logistical support processes as it will on advanced weapon systems. Outmoded logistics support systems are a threat within, and these require balanced consideration with that given to improving our weapon systems. Far more important than initial force projection is our ability to sustain and even multiply those forces logistically until our national interest is served. This study provides a rare glimpse of one such logistical support process--the Air Force technical order (AFTO) system. The AFTO system, a paper-based system with limited automation based on decades-old technology, is failing in its mission today. The sheer volume, complexity, and variety of technical orders and the massive bureaucracy required to support their accuracy and distribution, make dismal the prospects that the AFTO system will meet tomorrow's Air Force mission. Yet, as this study details, improvements through automation are being made to improve our outlook for the future. This study purposefully serves to improve this understanding by defining some very necessary considerations for determining the crisis management and wartime conditions which must be faced by such a system to sustain our deployed Air Force assets.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA206097
Entities
People
- Edward J. Higbee
Organizations
- Air University