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Lean-START suggests some initial observations about breakpoints where deployment requirements increase significantly.

• Breakpoints for maintenance are driven by the need for robust repair capability, as opposed to flightline launch and recovery.
• Breakpoints for base operating support are driven by duration, with about one week as the limit for minimal footprint.

Lean-START is useful in illuminating the costs, benefits, speed, and risk trade-offs in executing lean or dispersed operations.

Lean-START cannot by itself quantify the risk attendant with a given deployment package, but it can be useful in bounding the problem of trading cost, speed, and risk. It can serve to narrow the terms of a debate and explore input parameters in a way that helps inform and calibrate human judgment, where the user lacks deep subject matter expertise in one area or another.

Emerging basing concepts require better understanding of the time and resources needed to set up bases, as well as coordination with host nations, contract support, and equipment prepositioning.