Direct Support of War Fighting Forces Using Apportioned Airlift

<p>The purpose of this research is to determine the viability of an intra-theater airlift organizational construct know as general support-apportioned. Intra-theater airlift assets are the critical link in the Department of Defense's global supply chain. This airlift requires high rates of operational effectiveness and logistical efficiency to meet warfighter demand of speed and volume. Airlift organization and the process by which these resources are tasked cannot be overstated as the driving factor in determining the Air Force's ability to meet customer expectations. Centralizing resources a form of Operational Risk Management known as risk pooling is an effective and efficient way to organize intra-theater airlift assets. Risk pooling tempers demand variability by aggregating demand from multiple sources. This smoothing tendency allows a common pool of resources to better handle aggregated individual demands for resources; this is commonly referred to economy of force. Additionally risk pooling gives mission planners the flexibility to meet theater-wide requests for airlift.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>