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There are gaps and shortfalls in many areas, including process; doctrine, guidance, and instructions; training and career management; and tools and systems.

• In the process area, the overarching shortfall is the inability to provide an enterprise assessment of combat support capabilities and constraints to inform trade-off decisions.
• Currently, doctrine and policy do not clearly define and delineate the command and control roles and responsibilities of combat support organizations.
• Trained personnel are necessary to help remedy shortfalls by conducting integrated capability assessments and developing scarce resource allocation schemes.
• Models and tools are needed to help relate combat support resource levels and process performance to operationally relevant metrics.

While the Air Force has taken steps to address these shortfalls, some goals still need to be met.

• Global capabilities need to be assessed in a standard, repeatable manner that is linked directly to the ability to meet operational requirements.
• The results of individual supply chain and functional capability assessments need to be integrated and balanced into a set of capabilities that can be used in planning and replanning processes.
• There should be a defined process to arbitrate between and among competing operational demands.
• Codifying processes in doctrine, guidance, and instructions would help to institutionalize process improvements.