Analysis of global management of Air Force war reserve materiel to support operations in contested and degraded environments / Kristin F. Lynch, Anthony DeCicco, Bart E. Bennett, John G. Drew, Amanda Kadlec, Vikram Kilambi, Kurt Klein, James A. Leftwich, Miriam E. Marlier, Ronald G. McGarvey, Patrick Mills, Theo Milonopoulos, Robert S. Tripp, Anna Jean Wirth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lynch, Kristin F., author.

DeCicco, Anthony, author.

Bennett, Bart, 1959- author.

Drew, John G., 1956- author.

Kadlec, Amanda, author.

Kilambi, Vikram, author.

Klein, Kurt, author.

Leftwich, James, 1964- author.

Marlier, Miriam E., author.

McGarvey, Ronald G., author.

Mills, Patrick H., author.

Milonopoulos, Theo, author.

Tripp, Robert S., 1944- author.

Wirth, Anna Jean, author.

Contributor:

Project Air Force (U.S.). Resource Management Program.

Rand Corporation.

United States. Air Force.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military supplies--Transportation--United States--Evaluation.

Military supplies.

Operational readiness (Military science).

United States. Air Force.

United States.

Military supplies--Transportation.

Evaluation.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 110 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2021]

Summary:

Because adversaries have developed capabilities that may restrict or deny U.S. forces' access to a given area, the operational environment of the future may be different from the environment that the U.S. military has been accustomed to over the past 30 years. Prepositioning select war reserve materiel (WRM) may help mitigate vulnerabilities associated with operating in a contested, degraded, or operationally limited environment. In this report, RAND researchers evaluate management approaches and global prepositioning strategies for WRM postures in such environments. They describe conditions under which global management practices are advantageous and then propose methods that a global manager of WRM could employ to improve support of air component operational warfighting demands. Specifically, the authors demonstrate ways to standardize and validate determination processes for WRM requirements, establish a WRM prioritization schema, relate WRM priority to positioning postures, analyze trade-offs through modeling, and assess partner-nation risk.

Contents:

Introduction and Analytic Approach

A Review of WRM and Global Management

Current Air Force Management of WRM

Tools to Enhance Air Force Management of WRM

Strategic and Political Risk Assessment Tool

Conclusions and Recommendations

Appendix A: Global Management Case Studies

Appendix B: A Visualization Tool to Map WRM Processes

Appendix C: Analysis with the PRePO Model

Appendix D: SPRAT Data Sources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-110).

ISBN:

9781977403773

1977403778

OCLC:

1240199090