A Common Operating Picture for Air Force Materiel Sustainment First Steps

• Main Author: Pyles, Raymond A. (auth)
• Other Authors: Tripp, Robert S. (auth), Lynch, Kristin F. (auth), Snyder, Don (auth), Mills, Patrick (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2008
• Subjects: Political control & freedoms; Military engineering; Political Science; Technology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Describes a potential common operating system (COP) for the Air Force materiel sustainment system (MSS). The authors first develop a COP based on the principles of effects-based measures, schwerpunkt (organizational focus), decision rights, and a nonmarket economic framework, then they apply the COP...