Cost-Effectiveness Analyses for the Air Force C-17 Program.

Abstract

The Air Force's C-17 aircraft was designed to modernize the airlift fleet and improve the overall capability of the United States to rapidly project, reinforce, and sustain combat forces worldwide. The aircraft will augment the C-5 and C-141 aircraft in intertheater deployment and the C-130 in intratheater operations and subsequently replace the C-l4l fleet and reduce the size of the C-130 fleet. The aircraft will be capable of carrying outsize cargo over intertheater ranges into austere airfields, thereby introducing a direct deployment capability that will significantly improve airlift responsiveness. The C-l7 will provide significant intertheater airlift capability toward meeting the recommendations of the congressionally mandated Mobility Requirements Study (MRS), which was updated in January 1992.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 12, 1992
Accession Number
ADA378185

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Airlift Operations
  • Congress
  • Contracts
  • Cost Analysis
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Fuselages
  • Governments
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Military Acquisition
  • National Security
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management