Author: Mark Toukan Publisher: ISBN: 9781977408846 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 44
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This report offers stakeholders in Air Force training a framework for discerning the implications of different training infrastructure investments for assessing the readiness of individuals and aircrews.
Author: Mark Toukan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Combat sustainability (Military science) Languages : en Pages : 0
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Senior leaders on the Joint Staff are becoming increasingly concerned that the readiness assessment system is unable to provide credible answers to whether U.S. air forces can meet the demands of high-end conflict and whether individuals and aircrews have developed the right skills to complete their missions in stressful, complex environments. The sense is that the emphasis has not been on possible future scenarios and that readiness metrics do not provide accurate signals of force deficiencies. This ultimately results in decision priorities that do not align with national strategy. This report focuses on the Air Force's operational test and training infrastructure (OTTI), which is responsible for achieving aircrew readiness, and on the processes for assessing skill development and maintenance. The authors further focus on OTTI for the combat air forces. The objective was to offer diverse stakeholders a framework they can use to easily discern the implications of different training infrastructure investments for assessing skills and monitoring readiness. The authors describe interdependencies across different components of OTTI and implications for coordinating and prioritizing investments in those components.
Author: Anna Jean Wirth Publisher: ISBN: 9781977411983 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 0
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There are concerns that the rate at which China and Russia can field new technologies exceeds the rate at which the U.S. Air Force can replicate those technologies in operational test and training infrastructure (OTTI). The authors of this report estimate the rate at which China and Russia field new threats and examine the costs and benefits of keeping Air Force OTTI at pace with new adversary capabilities.
Author: Emmi Yonekura Publisher: ISBN: 9781977412225 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 0
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Senior Department of the Air Force leadership is increasingly concerned that the current readiness assessment system is not providing sufficient insight into the capability of the force to meet future mission requirements because of the shortcomings of outcome measurements. Concurrently, the U.S. Air Force is evolving its training infrastructure in response to the prospect of operations in contested and denied environments, an increased pace of warfare, and the potential loss of superiority across multiple domains in a conflict with near-peer adversaries. Advances in the technological capabilities of training infrastructure can help fill gaps in current readiness assessments to provide senior leaders with better insight into the readiness of the force for future contingencies. To understand how such investments might do so, the authors used a multimethod approach that featured interviews with senior leaders in Air Force major commands and technical experts and included reviews of readiness reporting data and technical documentation. The report identifies current readiness assessment gaps and explores ways to address them through investments in training assets. One finding was that legacy metrics tend to focus on individual units, but the force must be able to integrate well to conduct the full spectrum of possible operations against a near-peer adversary. This requires adjusting training and how readiness is measured to assess how personnel from different units function as teams at various levels.
Author: U S Government Accountability Office (G Publisher: BiblioGov ISBN: 9781289003524 Category : Languages : en Pages : 34
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An operational test and evaluation is an assessment of mission performance in a system's intended environment when operated, maintained, and supported by personnel with qualifications similar to those who will perform these functions in the field. The Air Force Test and Evaluation Center (AFTEC), established in 1974, is responsible for managing operational test and evaluation and providing an independent assessment on test results to the Secretary of the Air Force and Air Force Chief of Staff. AFTEC has improved Air Force operational testing, and further improvements are being planned. However, there are several limitations in the testing programs. The operational testing conducted by AFTEC was generally not performed in an environment that the systems would encounter when deployed, and the systems were not always operated and maintained by personnel with qualifications of expected users. Also, AFTEC had little control over the resources necessary to conduct initial operational testing. The Air Force practice of combining initial operational test and evaluation programs, while it may save costs, makes it unlikely to achieve the very different objectives of the two types of testing. AFTEC evaluations of operational effectiveness have been limited because they were not based on the most current operational concept. A new policy to provide concepts that will serve as a "contract" between developers and users and will provide current criteria has been incorporated into Air Force regulations.
Author: Lisa M. Harrington Publisher: ISBN: 9780833098863 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 0
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This report identifies opportunities for optimizing processes and policies in the U.S. Air Force nonrated technical training pipeline and recommends process and policy changes that could improve efficiency at all levels.
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