Assessing Capabilities and Risks in Air Force Programming
Framework, Metrics, and Methods
The goal of the defense budget is to deliver a portfolio of capabilities to meet a spectrum of uncertain future security environments. Despite progress in recent U.S. Air Force capabilities-based programming efforts, many limitations persist, and there are many disconnects between capability assessments and programming. To help mitigate these limitations, the findings presented here reexamine capabilities-based programming by introducing a new definition of capability metrics and a new set of algorithms for building and evaluating budgeting allocations. The capability metrics relate resources to operational-level activities in national plans, apply across a range of programs, and conform to programming boundaries. The algorithms provide the programmer with a means to quantitatively and reproducibly develop programming options in light of an uncertain future security environment, serving as a means to express capabilities and risks of resource allocations in terms of national planning objectives.
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- Copyright: RAND Corporation
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- Document Number: MG-815-AF
- Year: 2009
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Contents
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
Air Force Programming and Capability Assessments
Chapter Three
Linking Programming Decisions with Capability Assessments
Chapter Four
Algorithms for Capabilities-Based Programming
Chapter Five
Applications to Policy Analysis
The research described in this report was sponsored by the United States Air Force and conducted by RAND Project AIR FORCE.
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