Analysis of global management of Air Force war reserve materiel to support operations in contested and degraded environments / Kristin F. Lynch [and 13 others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lynch, Kristin F., author.

Contributor:

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

Rand Corporation.

United States. Air Force.

Series:

Research report (Rand Corporation)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Military supplies.

Operational readiness (Military science).

United States.

United States. Air Force.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 110 pages) : illustrations

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.