Reflecting Warfighter Needs in Air Force Programs: Prototype Analysis

Abstract

This report documents a phase-one effort to develop new methods for the Air Force to use in ensuring that warfighter needs are adequately represented as the Air Force puts together its program and budget for the Department of Defense s (DoD s) Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution process. We designed generic methods and then illustrated them for a single, concrete mission area: close air support (CAS). Our prototype analysis with notional data was concrete enough to demonstrate the primary concepts and analytic methods. The intended next stage of this research will flesh out the mission area with better data, apply the approach to additional mission areas, address trade-offs that cross mission areas (an especially difficult issue), and examine how the methods might be used within the current programbuilding process, or how that process might be modified.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA558411

Entities

People

  • Brandon Dues
  • Duncan Long
  • Paul K. Davis
  • Pual Dreyer
  • Richard Hillestad

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Business Administration
  • Combat Areas
  • Command And Control
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Precision-Guided Munitions
  • Prompt Global Strike
  • Risk Analysis
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Systems Analysis and Design