The Closed-Loop Planning System for Weapon System Readiness

Richard Hillestad, Robert Kerchner, Louis W. Miller, Adam C. Resnick, Hyman L. Shulman

ResearchPublished Nov 9, 2006

The U.S. Air Force does not have an effective way of allocating limited funding for depot-level repair across weapon systems and calculating the readiness implications of such allocations. The RAND project discussed in this report addressed this problem by developing a methodology that estimates the effect of depot repair funding allocations on aircraft availability. The methodology is called the “Closed-Loop” Planning System because it provides this type of feedback as opposed to the open-loop nature of the current planning system, which does not. The report describes the shortcomings in the current system to rationalize the development of the closed-loop methodology. It also illustrates the application of a prototype of the new planning system using a subset of real data from Air Force depot-level repair. It compares the cost of achieving the same level of readiness with the current Air Force approach and the closed-loop methodology. In addition, it describes extensions of the methodology that would be useful for both long-term and short-term planning.

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