Expeditionary Airpower
F-15 Support Analysis: Exploring F-15 Avionics Intermediate Maintenance Concepts to Meet AEF Challenges
Published in: Air Force Journal of Logistics, v. XXIII, no. 4, Winter 1999, p. 4-7, 38-39
Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 1999
Read More
Access further information on this document at www.aflma.hq.af.milThis article was published outside of RAND. The full text of the article can be found at the link above.
The current decentralized-deployment system for F-15 avionics repair, under which each base with F-15 aircraft sends an avionics intermediate maintenance shop with each deploying unit, places a heavy burden on personnel and requires substantial airlift. These burdens also adversely affect Expeditionary Aerospace Force goals of increasing response speed and reducing strain on personnel and the amount of materiel that must deploy with a force. The authors examine options the Air Force might consider for F-15 avionics maintenance to work toward achieving EAF goals, comparing alternatives to each other and the current system.
This article was published outside of RAND. The full text of the article can be found at the link above.
Research conducted by
This report is part of the RAND Corporation External publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations.
Our mission to help improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis is enabled through our core values of quality and objectivity and our unwavering commitment to the highest level of integrity and ethical behavior. To help ensure our research and analysis are rigorous, objective, and nonpartisan, we subject our research publications to a robust and exacting quality-assurance process; avoid both the appearance and reality of financial and other conflicts of interest through staff training, project screening, and a policy of mandatory disclosure; and pursue transparency in our research engagements through our commitment to the open publication of our research findings and recommendations, disclosure of the source of funding of published research, and policies to ensure intellectual independence. For more information, visit www.rand.org/about/principles.
The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.