Defense Industrial Base Adequacy Assessment For Usaf United States Air Force Precision Guided Munitions

The capacity of the defense industrial base to meet the need as of modernizing the strategic and tactical forces has been a continuing concern since the building up of forces started in the early 1980s. The focus of this paper is to examine the adequacy of the defense industrial base to meet the needs of Precision Guided Munitions (PGMs) along with other defense requirements in the expanding economy of the 1980s. The economic assessment method uses input-output analysis and macroeconomic forecasting models to identify impacted industries, to estimate growth in sales and potential for employment opportunity, and to determine industrial base adequacy. Specifically, the input-output analysis as embodied in the Defense Economic Impact Modeling System (DEIMS) and the industry supply responsiveness contained in the Industrial Capacity Monitoring Systems (ICMS) are used to determine if PGM programs will face or create capacity and price pressures in key industries. Based on the analysis of bottleneck pressures. Since less than 1% of this bottleneck sector is required for PGM production, the impact in this industrial sector is considered minimal.

This anthology discusses the converging operational issues of air base defense and counterinsurgency. It explores the diverse challenges associated with defending air assets and joint personnel in a counterinsurgency environment. The authors are primarily Air Force officers from security forces, intelligence, and the office of special investigations, but works are included from a US Air Force pilot and a Canadian air force officer. The authors examine lessons from Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflicts as they relate to securing air bases and sustaining air operations in a high-threat counterinsurgency environment. The essays review the capabilities, doctrine, tactics, and training needed in base defense operations and recommend ways in which to build a strong, synchronized ground defense partnership with joint and combined forces. The authors offer recommendations on the development of combat leaders with the depth of knowledge, tactical and operational skill sets, and counterinsurgency mind set necessary to be effective in the modern asymmetric battlefield.

Downsizing of U.S. Military forces since the end of the Cold War has led to an unparalleled reduction of the Defense Industrial Base. Some critics now claim the military lacks an adequate supply of modern preferred munitions to execute the new National Security Strategy of Engagement and Enlargement. They go on to question the U.S. military's ability to execute the National Military Strategy, which requires our forces to execute and win two near simultaneous major regional contingencies. Even so, we continue to restructure and reduce the size of the force. This strategy requires the continued capability to deter war and respond to crisis. We also need the capability to replenish war reserves and reconstitute forces after military intervention in response to a new major regional threat. The success of the Gulf War may have erroneously suggested a capability to fight a protracted war or to readily reconstitute forces. This strategy research project will examine the munitions industrial base of the past, assess present capabilities, and make recommendations to ensure that there is an adequate base for our forces well into the 21st century.

In February 1999, only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's Allied Force air campaign against Serbia, Col. C.R. Anderegg, USAF (Ret.), visited the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Colonel Anderegg had known Gen. John Jumper since they had served together as jet forward air controllers in Southeast Asia nearly thirty years earlier. From the vantage point of 1999, they looked back to the day in February 1970, when they first controlled a laser-guided bomb strike. In this book Anderegg takes us from "glimmers of hope" like that one through other major improvements in the Air Force that came between the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. Always central in Anderegg's account of those changes are the people who made them. This is a very personal book by an officer who participated in the transformation he describes so vividly. Much of his story revolves around the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, where he served two tours as an instructor pilot specializing in guided munitions.

This collection of essays reflects the proceedings of a 1991 conference on "The United States Air Force: Aerospace Challenges and Missions in the 1990s," sponsored by the USAF and Tufts University. The 20 contributors comment on the pivotal role of airpower in the war with Iraq and address issues and choices facing the USAF, such as the factors that are reshaping strategies and missions, the future role and structure of airpower as an element of US power projection, and the aerospace industry's views on what the Air Force of the future will set as its acquisition priorities and strategies. The authors agree that aerospace forces will be an essential and formidable tool in US security policies into the next century. The contributors include academics, high-level military leaders, government officials, journalists, and top executives from aerospace and defense contractors.

Proceedings of a symposium co-sponsored by the Air Force Historical Foundation and the Air Force History and Museums Program. The symposium covered relevant Air Force technologies ranging from the turbo-jet revolution of the 1930s to the stealth revolution of the 1990s. Illustrations.