Air Force Journal of Logistics articles from December 2002

Air Force Journal of Logistics archives from December 2002

Managing Air Force depot consumables: the big picture. (Logistics Support).
December 22, 2002... Consumable-item management in Air Force depots has evolved over the years, very dramatically in the last 5. The exclusive use of the economic order quantity (EOQ) model, for both leveling and ordering, has given way to more frequent ordering...

Reparability Forecast Model. (Logistics Support).
December 22, 2002... With hundreds of logistics systems in use in the Air Force, it is hard to keep them all straight, much less know where they fit into the big picture. As users of these systems, it is important that logisticians understand, at least at the top...

Improving the logistics pipeline: achieving Agile Combat supply support. (Logistics Support).
December 22, 2002... A pipeline on the fly concept, deploying smaller spares packages and leveraging immediate resupply from a centralized location, can enable supply support to become light, lean, and lethal. From an Air Force perspective it is imperative that...

Footprint configuration: a new concept to speed expeditionary aerospace force deployment. (Logistics Support).
December 22, 2002... The EAF is replacing the forward presence of airpower with a force that can deploy quickly from the CONUS in response to a crisis anywhere in the world. From the Cold War to the EAF Since the end of the Cold War, the Air Force has been...

Focused Logistics and combat capability: support plans for the future. (Logistics Support).
December 22, 2002... Focused Logistics is the capability to provide the joint force with the right personnel, equipment, and supplies at the right time, in the right place, and in the right quantity. Of all the tenets detailed in Joint Vision 2010 (JV2010),...

Why so many AWP LRUs? (Inside Logistics).(awaiting parts)
December 22, 2002... Introduction The Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) continues to struggle with stockage policy for repair parts to support the component repair program where line-replaceable units (LRU) and shop-replaceable units (SRU) are shipped from...

Directorate of Communications Operations sets strategic course.
December 22, 2002... On 30 April 2002, the Directorate of Communications Operations (AF/ILC) was established under the Deputy Chief of Staff (DCS), Installations and Logistics (AF/IL). This directorate was formed in conjunction with the standup of the new DCS for...

Logistics analysis. (Current Logistics Research).
December 22, 2002... Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. --Adam Smith Have you ever been faced with the following situations? Your senior leaders just received an impressive presentation from the ACME Logistics...

A physically fit airman: an essential element for Agile Combat Support in the AEF. (Views on Logistics).
December 22, 2002... The Air Force has embraced a doctrinal concept, the air and space expeditionary force (AEF), that calls for units to deploy within a very short timeframe to support joint or combined operations. Underpinning this concept is Agile Combat Support...