A Common Operating Picture for Air Force Material Sustainment. First Steps

Abstract

The Air Force materiel sustainment system (MSS) is continually caught between two countervailing forces: demands for increased efficiency and lower costs one side, and demands for increasingly effective support to combat operations and peacetime training on the other. Compounding the situation, the Air Force is currently facing more unpredictable operational demands- in terms of both their location and their required operating capabilities. We envision a materiel sustainment system common operating picture (COP) that would better synchronize the MSS's activities- enhancing responsiveness to changing operational needs reducing opportunities for unintended wasted effort, and coordinating efforts to improve support in one agency while ensuring that complementary efforts in another area are accomplished.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA486319

Entities

People

  • Don A. Snyder
  • John G. Drew
  • Kristin F. Lynch
  • Patrick Mill
  • Raymond A. Pyles
  • Robert S. Tripp

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

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  • Air Platforms
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  • Air Force
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  • Military Organizations
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  • Warfare

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