Changing the Culture of Fuel Efficiency: A Change in Attitude
Abstract
Due to the inconsistent financial position of the Air Force, every method for cost savings must be evaluated to ensure the Air Force can meet its National Security objectives with the most cost effective force available. As the Air Force is the largest user of energy within the DoD, fuel efficiency needs to be improved through new cost advantageous methods to avoid further cuts to readiness and recapitalization. Previous efforts to curb energy use within AMC have focused on programmatic and systematic issues. This paper will present a plan to modify military aviation culture reinforced during 10 years of rising DoD spending with positive motivation and commitment through benchmarking discrete mission performance using the KC-135 community at Royal Air Force Mildenhall (RAFM) as a test case. A fuel efficiency rating for tanker pilots will be modeled using mission metrics that are currently unavailable in a single database, but easily acquired. With this metric individual flyers should be intrinsically motivated to push fuel efficiency higher as a priority, and therefore accomplish missions and training within the tightest tolerances of fuel efficiency.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 09, 2014
- Accession Number
- ADA602560
Entities
People
- Russell D. Gohn
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology