
Development Planning
A Strategic Approach to Future Air Force Capabilities
National Academies Press
Published on 10. November 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
98 pages
978-0-309-31365-0 (ISBN)
Description
The development and application of technology has been an essential part of U.S. airpower, leading to a century of air supremacy. But that developmental path has rarely been straight, and it has never been smooth. Only the extraordinary efforts of exceptional leadership - in the Air Forces and the wider Department of Defense, in science and in industry - have made the triumphs of military airpower possible. Development Planning provides recommendations to improve development planning for near-term acquisition projects, concepts not quite ready for acquisition, corporate strategic plans, and training of acquisition personnel. This report reviews past uses of development planning by the Air Force, and offers an organizational construct that will help the Air Force across its core functions. Developmental planning, used properly by experienced practitioners, can provide the Air Force leadership with a tool to answer the critical question, Over the next 20 years in 5-year increments, what capability gaps will the Air Force have that must be filled?
Development planning will also provide for development of the workforce skills needed to think strategically and to defectively define and close the capability gap. This report describes what development planning could be and should be for the Air Force.
Development planning will also provide for development of the workforce skills needed to think strategically and to defectively define and close the capability gap. This report describes what development planning could be and should be for the Air Force.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 251 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-309-31365-0 (9780309313650)
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National Research Council | Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences | Air Force Studies Board
Development Planning
A Strategic Approach to Future Air Force Capabilities
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Content
1 Front Matter; 2 Summary; 3 1 Historical Context Regarding Planning for Future Air Force Capabilities; 4 2 Development Planning Today; 5 3 Improving Development Planning Support to U.S. Air Force Strategic Decision Making; 6 Appendixes; 7 Appendix A: Terms of Reference; 8 Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members; 9 Appendix C: Meetings and Speakers