Investigating Disruptions to Channel Missions - What's the Breaking Point?
Abstract
The Department of Defense will continue to operate in a challenging fiscal environment for the foreseeable future and AMC will not be immune to the requirement to cut costs while maintaining the ability to accomplish its mission. Understanding the capability of the strategic airlift fleet to accomplish channel missions is one way to determine methods to efficiently use critical resources. This research paper analyzes and discusses the capacity of the strategic airlift fleet in the USAF to fly all scheduled channel sorties and determine the aircraft that would be available to absorb airlift requirements as a result of contingency operations. This research will analyze the historical demand for channel missions and aircraft availability to determine the average number of aircraft available. A two year average is developed for channels using organic aircraft and aircraft availability and then compared with total demand. Additionally, a review of contingency and SAAMs from 2010 & 2011 is accomplished to determine expected demand. Finally, the aircraft availability is compared to channel and contingency sortie demand to determine the breaking point for strategic airlift.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2014
- Accession Number
- ADA603781
Entities
People
- Royce M. Lippert
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology