Optimizing Aircraft Availability: Where to Spend Your Next O&M Dollar

Abstract

In the current fiscally constrained environment, the Air Force must allocate resources where they are most needed and will be most effectively used. For aircraft, this means spending money on weapon systems in a manner that optimizes aircraft availability rates, thereby maximizing the warfighting capability of the Air Force. With that in mind, this thesis endeavors to improve the analytical capability of the Air Force by demonstrating a definitive link between operations and maintenance (O&M) spending and aircraft availability rates. To do that, explanatory regression models are developed that show the relationship between O&M spending and AA rates, while controlling for as many other significant variables as the data allow. Ultimately, this research was unable to show that aircraft availability rates are significantly influenced by changes in O&M spending; however, suggestions for future research and potential policy implications are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA519537

Entities

People

  • Frederick G. Fry

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Business Administration
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Deployment
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Warfare
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting
  • Systems Analysis and Design