Combat Support Execution Planning and Control. An Assessment of Initial Implementations in Air Force Exercises

Abstract

In response to the CSC2 issues discovered during operations in Serbia in 1999, the Deputy Chief of Staff for Installations and Logistics (AF/IL) asked RAND PAF to study the current ("AS-IS") operational architecture and develop a future ("TO-BE") CSC2 operational architecture (Leftwich et al., 2002). PAF researchers documented current processes, identified areas in need of change, and developed processes for a well-defined, closed-loop TO-BE CSC2 operational architecture that incorporated the lessons learned during JTF Noble Anvil and Operation Enduring Freedom, which AF/IL directed for implementation. The TO-BE operational architecture envisions enabling the ACS community to quickly estimate combat support requirements for force package options needed to achieve desired operational effects and assess the feasibility of operational and support plans quickly determine beddown capabilities, facilitate rapid time-phased force and deployment data (TPFDD) development, and configure a distribution network to meet employment time lines and resupply needs facilitate execution resupply planning and performance monitoring determine the effects of allocating scarce resources to various combatant commanders indicate when combat support performance deviates from the desired state and implement replanning and/or "get-well" planning analysis (Leftwich et al., 2002) provide decisionmakers with an Air Force-wide view of combat support resources available for joint employment operations. The TO-BE architecture outlines changes in three key organizations: the Commander of Air Force forces' (COMAFFOR's) operations support center, commodity control points, and the Air Force Combat Support Center. It also affects operations occurring in the Falconer Air and Space Operations Center (AOC) weapon system and must work within the greater joint C2 environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA495478

Entities

People

  • Kristin F. Lynch
  • William A. Williams

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Business Administration
  • Civil Engineering
  • Combat Operations
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Command And Control
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Control Systems
  • Employment
  • Information Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

Technology Areas

  • Space