How Should the U.S. Air Force Depot Maintenance Activity Group be Funded?
Abstract
Despite much effort and high leadership visibility over the last several years, the U.S. Air Force continues to experience unacceptably low mission capability (MC) rates for critical weapon systems and unexpectedly high support costs for these weapon systems at the end of each fiscal year. Multiple reviews over the last several years of the logistics process that the U.S. Air Force uses to support its weapon systems all agree that the process does not work well in its current environment. It needs to change to meet the needs of a force and procedures that are different from those in place when the process was devised. Different reviews find different sources of problems. Taken together, the reviews point to two kinds of problems: Given the resources it is willing to commit to logistics activities and how its logistics process actually performs, the Air Force tries to do more with its operational weapon systems than its logistics support budgets allow. How Should the U.S. Air Force Depot Maintenance Activity Group Be Funded? Given the resources it is willing to commit to logistics activities, the Air Force could improve how its logistics process performs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 2002
- Accession Number
- ADA408964
Entities
People
- Edward G. Keating
- Frank A. Camm
Organizations
- RAND Corporation