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_b.S87 2007
245 0 0 _aSustaining Air Force space systems :
_ba model for the Global Positioning System /
_cDon Snyder ... [et al.].
264 1 _aSanta Monica, CA :
_bRAND,
_c2007.
300 _axvii, 46 pages :
_billustrations, map ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _a"RAND Project Air Force."
500 _a"The work was conducted within the Resource Management Program of RAND Project Air Force"--Preface.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 47).
505 0 _aIntroduction -- Considerations for a GPS sustainment model -- A predictive model for the sustainment of GPS ground antennas -- Conclusions and next steps -- Appendix: The GPS as a public good.
520 _aAir Force Space Command (AFSPC) needs quantitative tools to assist it in making decisions on how changes in the dollars invested in maintenance and sustainment of the ground segment of space systems affect the operational performance of those systems. This monograph outlines criteria for analyzing how sustainment investments affect the operational performance of space systems, focusing on the Global Positioning System. The authors offer a framework for such analyses and recommend steps to implement that framework. The authors describe the Global Positioning System at a level of detail needed for the analysis; discuss how to approach modeling the relationships between sustainment activities and overall system performance, and describe a pilot model for such analysis; and the authors examine the results of this model and how they might be used in policy analysis, and discuss the implications for developing such models in GPS and other programs. The authors selected a metric of performance that reflects the overall system performance, and not one that focuses on the performance of a specific subsystem.
530 _aAlso available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bAir Force Space Command
_xPlanning.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bAir Force
_xProcurement.
650 0 _aAstronautics, Military
_zUnited States
_xEquipment and supplies.
650 0 _aGlobal Positioning System.
700 1 _aSnyder, Don,
_d1962-
_eauthor.
700 1 _aMills, Patrick H.
_eauthor.
700 1 _aComanor, Katherine.
_eauthor.
700 1 _aRoll, Charles Robert.
_eauthor.
710 2 _aProject Air Force (U.S.).
_bResource Management Program.
710 2 _aRand Corporation.
710 1 _aUnited States.
_bAir Force.
856 4 1 _yOnline Access
_uhttp://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG525/
999 _c599986
_d599986