Support to the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center: Enabling AFIMSC's Role in Agile Combat Support Planning, Execution, Monitoring, and Control

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Organizing and Training Airfield Operations Capabilities for Emerging Expeditionary Operations: Potential Courses of Action

“…When the USAF was refining its Air Expeditionary Force policies in the early 2000s, Snyder et al, 2006, developed the Deployment Capabilities Assessment Tool (DCAT), a sophisticated tool that helps identify factors that limit deployment capabilities and provides an analytic basis for balancing resources, and Mills et al, 2014, addressing new USAF missions that "entail operating in increasingly austere environments and under extremely high threats, often with dispersed forces, and sometimes outside the traditional boundaries of air bases" (Mills et al, 2014, p. 2), studied alternative approaches to determining manpower requirements to fulfill those missions.…”