"RAND Project Air Force."

"The research reported here was … conducted within the Resource Management Program of RAND Project Air Force (PAF)"--Preface.

Accompanying CD-ROM in back pocket of book contains "Visio Diagram and Excel Spreadsheets."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-95).

Introduction, Background, and Motivation -- Research Approach and Architectural Framework -- The Vision and Scope of the Operational Architecture -- Operational Architecture Products -- Gaps and Shortfalls Identified Using the Operational Architecture and Recommended Strategies to Enhance Command and Control -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- Appendix A: Operational Architecture for Mobility Air Force Maintenance -- Appendix B: Annotated Bibliography.

Currently, agile combat support (ACS) planning, execution, monitoring, and control processes are poorly integrated with operational planning processes and have little ability to show how resource allocation decisions would impact planned and potential operations. This report presents an architecture that depicts how enhanced ACS processes could be integrated into Air Force command and control (C2) as it is defined in Joint Publications. This architecture, which focuses on the near term (the next 4–5 years) using current Air Force assets, was created by (1) evaluating previous RAND-developed operational architectures from 2002 and 2006 and (2) refining those architectures in light of the current operational and fiscal environments. It first identifies C2 processes and the echelons of command responsible for executing those processes and then describes how enhanced ACS planning, execution, monitoring, and control processes could be integrated with operational-level and strategic-level C2 processes to provide senior leaders with enterprise ACS capability and constraint information.

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