Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
RAND examined options to increase the mobility, protection, and firepower of U.S. Army airborne forces, given likely future missions and threats, and identified a concept for enhancing today's forces by adding a light armored infantry capability. The near-term focus also meant that the current Air Force airlift fleet was an important ...
Against this backdrop, RAND Europe was commissioned by the MCCE to carry out a scoping study into the challenges associated with coordination of strategic lift in and around Africa. While this study focuses primarily on airlift, it also considers other modes of transport (e.g. road, rail, sea) as part of possible multi-modal solutions.
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Use in U.S. Central Command. Intratheater airlift delivers critical and time-sensitive supplies, such as blood products for transfusions or repair parts for vehicles, to deployed forces. Traditionally, military aircraft have provided this airlift. However, for various reasons, in recent years a number of ...
The authors examine the use of airlift in past and present counterinsurgency operations, including the Foreign Internal Defense program. They conclude that general U.S. airlift forces can accomplish most counterinsurgency missions effectively, with adjustments in employment doctrines and training.
The current strategic airlift fleet will be reaching the end of its service life in the next few decades, which has raised concerns about the cost and possible budget spike that would result from the need to recapitalize that fleet. This monograph presents the results of a cost-effectiveness analysis to determine the best way to recapitalize the USAF intertheater (strategic) airlift fleet.
Intertheater airlift provides the Department of Defense with the ability to deliver combat forces or humanitarian relief rapidly anywhere in the world and to respond quickly to changing circumstances. But the national security strategy is being adapted to fit a changing world, and budget constraints are increasing.
The Movement Coordination Centre Europe (MCCE) helps to coordinate use of the land, airlift and sealift assets of its 28 member nations, which include the UK, US, Canada, France and Germany. RAND Europe conducted a short scoping study to help the MCCE better understand the complex challenges of airlift in and around Africa, which can go beyond ...
Intratheater Airlift Functional Area Analysis (FAA) This functional area analysis is the first in a trio of documents that the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System requires for a capabilities-based assessment of intratheater airlift capabilities. This volume sets the stage for the assessment by laying out the tasks, conditions ...
This report investigates the activation of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF), which the Military Airlift Command (predecessor of the Airlift Mobility Command) called up for the first time at the start of Operation Desert Shield.
The desire for more-realistic inputs describing airfield capacities led to the first RAND study, which produced an initial version of the Airfield Capacity Estimator (ACE). This report describes follow-on work to investigate how differing levels and distributions of airfield resources, over a set of airfields, can affect airlift throughput.