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© Copyright 2017 RAND CorporationR® is a registered trademark.iii Preface Logistics operations depend on accurate information. If acted upon, inaccurate information can cause support operations to work counter to desired outcomes and potentially negatively affect combat operations. Even relatively small errors in support systems can, in some circumstances, have large effects on operations. Yet errors are inevitable, so logistics operations should be robust to errors, whether they are a random occurrence or the result of a deliberate, targeted cyber attack.The U.S. Air Force asked RAND Project AIR FORCE to determine where it is most fruitful to focus effort in making changes to tactics, techniques, and procedures to improve an airman's ability to detect, evaluate, and mitigate significant corruption of logistics data. The goal is to respond to errors in data before they have a significant negative effect on combat operations.This work was completed as part of the fiscal year 2016 project entitled "Logistics Ability to Survive and Operate After Cyber Attack" and was sponsored by the Director of Resource Integration under the Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff, Logistics, Engineering, and Force Protection and co-sponsored by the Director, Logistics, Engineering, and Force Protection, Air Force Global Strike Command. The work was conducted within the Resource Management Program of RAND Project AIR FORCE. It should be of interest to the logistics and operational communities throughout the Air Force.
RAND Project AIR FORCERAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF), a division of the RAND Corporation, is the U.S. Air Force's federally funded research and development center for studies and analyses. PAF provides the Air Force with independent analyses of policy alternatives affecting the development, employment, combat readi...