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Evolving the Analytical Capabilities of AFIMSC Is a Complex Challenge

• As the principal supplier of installation and mission support resources, AFIMSC needs a coherent, rational, and transparent method to allocate resources across missions and installations.
• AFIMSC cannot just adopt the status quo system where resources allocations were made absent enterprise-wide standards for support and insights into the operational impact of those decisions.
• A common lexicon of metrics, clear business rules, and a construct to report enterprise performance to senior leaders is needed to implement a framework for making rational resource allocation decisions and have the ability to communicate the impact of those decisions to operators.
• Some processes that the Air Force has already established can be tailored to facilitate creating an enterprise measurement and management structure. Air Force Material Command's Weapon System Enterprise Review, which provides a comprehensive review of the status of weapon systems, is an example.

The U.S. Air Force is in the midst of transforming the way agile combat support (ACS) is managed to support training, steady state operations, and contingency operations. The reorganization of Air Force Materiel Command into the five-center construct was one significant milestone in the transformation. Another is the establishment of the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center (AFIMSC).

This report provides a strategic view of the analytical capabilities that are needed by AFIMSC to allocate resources to and assess the performance of installation and mission support activities. AFIMSC needs a coherent, rational, and transparent method to allocate resources across missions and installations. The Air Force needs a common lexicon of metrics, clear business rules, and a construct to report enterprise performance to senior leaders.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  An Operational Framework for AFIMSC as an Enterprise Manager

• Chapter Three

  Analytical Framework to Support AFIMSC Decisions

• Chapter Four

  Implementing the Proposed Framework

• Chapter Five

  Conclusions, Recommendations, and Next Steps

• Appendix A

  Summary of Prior RAND Research on ACS C2

• Appendix B

  Quantifying the Effects of Home-Station ACS Shortfalls

• Appendix C

  Illustrative Alignment of COLS to Installation Support and Mission Support Capability Ratings

• Appendix D

  Illustrative Mapping of Program Element Categories to Air Force COLS