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CONTENTS Preface iii Project AIR FORCE v Figures ix Tables xi Summary xiii Centralizing the Intermediate Maintenance Infrastructure: Forward Support Locations and the AEF xiii The Air Force CIRF Test xv Next Steps In Implementing the Agile Combat Support Network xvi Acknowledgments xvii Acronyms xix 1. Introduction 1 Creation of the Air and Space Expeditionary Force 1 Two Operating Concepts for Intermediate Maintenance 3 Intermediate Maintenance Strategies During and After the Cold War 4 RAND's Concept of Agile Combat Support 5 The Air Force's Active Involvement in CIRF Operations 9 Realizing the Vision of a Global ACS System 10 Organization of This Report 10 2. CIRF History 12 Shifts in Maintenance Policy in the Early Days of the Air Force 13 Developments during the Korean War: Rear Echelon Maintenance Combined Operations (REMCOs) 15 Maintenance Developments after the Korean War 17 Project Pacer Sort 19 Post-Vietnam Activity 20 A Growing Interest in Centralized Intermediate Maintenance in the 1970s 22 USAFE CIRF Test 23 Maintenance Posture Improvement Program (MPIP) Test 24 SAC CIRF Test 24 RAND's CIRF Studies in the 1970s 25 WINTEX 77 26 USAFE Study 26 CIRF Uses in Desert Shield/Desert Storm (DS/DS) 27 3. Centralized Maintenance and the AEF Concept 30 Expeditionary Combat Support 30 Maintenance FSL Options by Commodity 33 F-15 Avionics 33 LANTIRN Pods 35 Jet Engine Intermediate Maintenance (JEIM) 38 Summary: Commodity Studies 40 Location Selection for Maintenance FSLs 41 Forward Support Locations In The Air War Over Serbia 42 Footprint Configuration Analysis 44 C2 Analysis 45 Summary: Maintenance FSLs and the AEF 47 4. Maintenance FSL Operations: The CIRF Test 49 Background 49 CIRF Test Plan 51 Results 54 Operational Achievements 54 C2 Achievements 57 Challenges Faced 59 Conclusion: CIRF Test Planning and Results 62 5. CIRF Support Tradepace Development 64 Methodology: Simulation Modeling 64 Scenarios 66 F100-100 Engine 66 ALQ-131 ECM Pod 67 Repair Assumptions 68 CIRF Operations 68 Results: F100-100 Engine 69 Results: ALQ-131 ECM Pod 72 Conclusions from Tradespace Development 75 6. Conclusions and Recommendations: Further ACS implementation 77 Centralized Repair in Today's Operating Environment 77 Further DEVELOPMENT of ACS Concepts 77 CONUS CIRFs 78 C2 Network 79 Distribution 81 Centralized Ownership 82 Structural Considerations in CIRF Planning 84 Recommendations 85 A. Centralized Ownership Analysis 87 Policy Descriptions 87 Base Case: Unit Ownership 87 Excursion Case: Centralized Ownership 88 Simulation Methodology 90 Assumptions: CIRF Operations 90 Operational Scenarios 91 Sample case: The F100-229 91 Implementation of Centralized Ownership 99 Unit Concerns 99 C2 Needs 100 Budget and Funding 101 Added Benefits of Centralized Ownership 102 Bibliography 103 This ¶ is a kludge to fix a bug in MS Word. Don't delete it! FIGURES Figure 1.1: Support Footprint for Aerospace Power is Substantial 3 Figure 1.2: Elements of the ACS Network 7 Figure 1.3: FOL/FSL Operational Concept 8 Figure 3.1: Timeline of RAND and Air Force Development of AEF Concept 31 Figure 3.2: LANTIRN Testing 32 Figure 3.3: Jet Engine Intermediate Maintenance Shop 32 Figure 4.1: CIRF Test Operational Environment 50 Figure 4.2: USAFE/RSS Organizational Structure 52 Figure 4.3: Personnel/Support Equipment Deployment Savings, Steady State 55 Figure 4.4: Personnel/Support Equipment Deployment Savings, MRC Projection 56 Figure 5.1: EnMasse Model of Engine repair 66 Figure 5.2: Impact of one-way transportation time on spares performance, F100-100 engine 70 Figure 5.3: Impact of initial deployment on spares performance, F100- 100 engine 71 Figure 5.4: Impact of removal rate on spares performance, F100-100 engine 72 Figure 5.5: Impact of one-way transportation time on spares performance, ALQ-131 Pods 73 Figure 5.6: Impact of initial deployment on spares performance, ALQ-131 Pods 74 Figure 5.7: Impact of removal rate on spares performance, ALQ-131 Pods 75 Figure A.1: Comparison of Unit and Centrally Managed Deployments 88 Figure A.2: Spares Performance, F-16 FOL1 94 Figure A.3: Spares Performance, F-16 FOL2 94 Figure A.4: Spares Performance, F-15 FOL 95 Figure A.5: Spares Performance, F-15 Peacetime Unit 95 Figure A.6: CIRF Stock, F100-229 Engines 96 Figure A.7: Spares performance with additional spares deployed, F-16 FOL1 97 Figure A.8: Spares performance with additional spares deployed, F-16 FOL2 97 Figure A.9: Spares performance with additional spares deployed, F-15 FOL 98 Figure A.10: Spares performance with additional spares deployed, F-15 Peacetime Unit 98 Figure A.11: CIRF Stock with additional spares deployed 99 TABLES Table 3.1: Summary of Results 41 Table 4.1: CIRF Operation 55 Table 4.2: CIRF Manpower Requirements, Actual vs. Planned 57 Table 5.1: CIRF Repair Parameters, F100-100 engine 67 Table 5.2: CIRF Repair Parameters, ALQ-131 ECM Pod 67 Table 5.3: CIRF Repair Parameters, F100 Engine Family 68 Table A.1: F100-229 Deployment Schedule 92 Table A.2: F-15/16 Operational Data 92 Table A.3: One-Way Transportation Distributions Achieved in CIRF Test Results 93
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