TY  - BOOK
AU  - Snyder,Don
AU  - Mills,Patrick H.
ED  - Project Air Force (U.S.).
ED  - Rand Corporation.
ED  - United States.
TI  - A methodology for determining Air Force deployment requirements
T2  - Supporting air and space expeditionary forces
SN  - 0833035673 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - UG633 .S58 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - RAND
KW  - United States
KW  - Air Force
KW  - Equipment
KW  - Maintenance and repair
KW  - Databases
KW  - Foreign service
KW  - Ground support
KW  - Operational readiness
KW  - Airlift, Military
KW  - Deployment (Strategy)
KW  - Military planning
N1  - "Project Air Force."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-71); Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format
N2  - The Air Force's transition from a threat-based planning posture to a capabilities-based planning posture suggests the need for a means to calculate swiftly the manpower and equipment required to generate those capabilities. This book outlines just such a methodology for determining manpower and equipment deployment requirements. The methodology employs a prototype research tool called the Strategic Tool for the Analysis of Required Transportation (START). The START program generates lists of capability units, called Unit Type Codes, which are required to support a user-specified operation. The program also estimates materiel movement requirements to achieve initial operating capability at deployed locations. The appendix to this book serves as a user's guide to the START program. A fully implemented tool based on this prototype should prove to be useful for both deliberate planning crisis-action planning
UR  - http://www.rand.org/publications/MG/MG176/
ER  -