Kristin Mckinley Lynch

The Air Force Chief Of Staff Logistics Review: Improving Wing-level Logistics

Lessons From Operation Iraqi Freedom

Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces: Lessons from Operation Enduring Freedom

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle End to End Support Considerations

A Framework for Enhancing Airlift Planning and Execution Capabilities Within the Joint Expeditionary Movement System

Strategic Analysis of Air National Guard Combat Support and Reachback Functions

Space Command Sustainment Review: Improving the Balance Between Current and Future Capabilities

Supporting the Future Total Force: A Methodology for Evaluating Potential Air National Guard Mission Assignments

Supporting the Future Total Force: A Methodology for Evaluating Potential Air National Guard Mission Assignments

Given manpower reductions in the activeduty Air Force and a surplus of highly trained Air National Guard (ANG) personnel, some missions might be transferred from the active component to the ANG without significant cost to the total force. Predator operations and support, air mobility command and con...

A Common Operating Picture for Air Force Materiel Sustainment: First Steps (Project Air Force)

Describes a potential common operating system (COP) for the Air Force materiel sustainment system (MSS). The authors first develop a COP based on the principles of effectsbased measures, schwerpunkt (organizational focus), decision rights, and a nonmarket economic framework, then they apply the COP ...

Options for Meeting the Maintenance Demands of Active Associate Flying Units

RAND developed a methodology to help understand and explain the differences between U.S. Air National Guard and active component aircraft maintenance productivity. This research focuses on maintenance options for supporting associate units, where the goal of the associate unit is to produce trained ...

Improving Air Force Command and Control Through Enhanced Agile Combat Support Planning, Execution, Monitoring, and Control Processes

Many factors contribute to imbalances between needed agile combat support (ACS) resources and those available at any given time to simultaneously meet all requirements for contingency and trainingoperations. This report describes ACS process gaps and recommends implementation strategies to facilitat...

Implementation Actions for Improving Air Force Command and Control Through Enhanced Agile Combat Support Planning, Execution, Monitoring, and Control Processes

Using the architecture developed as a companion piece to this analysis, this report identifies and describes where shortfalls exist between current agile combat support (ACS) processes and the vision for integrating enhanced ACS processes into Air Force command and control (C2). It evaluates C2 node...

Assessment of the Air Force Materiel Command Reorganization: Report for Congress

This report assesses the FY 2012 reorganization of the Air Force Material Command (AFMC), which was undertaken as one of the initiatives to achieve mandated budget reductions by eliminating civilian manpower positions, thus achieving cost savings. One AFMC challenge was to absorb these cuts with min...

Project AIR FORCE Modeling Capabilities for Support of Combat Operations in Denied Environments

Documents the modeling framework Project Air Force developed to evaluate combat support requirements, basing posture vulnerabilities, operational resilience, and potential mitigation strategies to support combat operations in a denied environment.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle End-to-End Support Considerations

Evaluating current end to end support postures for certain UAV systems revealed that fielding a new capability quickly can have cibsequences for its long term support and for testing and evaluation, training, and plans for future enhancements.