Depot Maintenance in the Air Force: How Requirements are Determined and How They Relate to Aircraft Readiness and Sustainability

Abstract

This report presents a method to quantify the effect of depot maintenance funding on aircraft readiness and em of forecasting maintenance budget requirements on that basis. It concludes that, while the Air Force should pursue improvements in technical guarantee stability and accuracy of the forecast. Given the inherent volatility in item demand rates and forecasting methods, that course alone would not and procedures to provide visibility and management the effect of Air Force management decisions, the Air Force needs also to develop stronger tools control of the requirement. depot maintenance, aircraft readiness and sustainability, requirements forecasting

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA249422

Entities

People

  • T. J. O'malley
  • Tovey C. Bachman

Organizations

  • LMI

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Budget Estimates
  • Cannibalization
  • Combat Support
  • Computations
  • Contracts
  • Databases
  • Information Systems
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Management
  • Maintenance
  • Management Information Systems
  • Management Personnel
  • Simulations
  • Spare Parts
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.