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Interim Report on Air Force Base Level Automation Environment Report to the Department of the Air Force (1986) / Chapter Skim
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IV. Recommendations
Pages 27-32

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From page 27...
... Instead, the Air Force has a "best efforts" program underway, using available resources and promising no specific dates or improvements. The Committee proposes the Air Force determine the short term resource requirements, decide which improvements can be afforded and should be done, and then commit to a resource plan and schedule.
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From page 28...
... Appendix C provides an outline of the contents and organization of such a plan; in effect, it is a simplified statement of work for such a planning effort. The Committee believes the potential benefits are clear: o Better and more uniform operation of Phase IV systems throughout the Air Force, faster response times, improved availability, and fewer aborted runs, o Better information exchange among all interested parties; o Increased functional capabilities for more users; o Release of functional resources -- both people and machine capacity -- for other tasks; and Evidence -- to the fie10 -- of a top-1eve]
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From page 29...
... ) o Establish and maintain a testbed for this concept of "standard Air Force base-level automation facility," perhaps at an Advanced Concepts Base.
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From page 30...
... Project Harvest Resource and the CAMS functional design are good beginnings but they do not go far enough. We recommend: o that the kind of thought embodied in the supply study be extended to apply simultaneously to base-level supply, maintenance, and transportation plus interfaces to the wholesale logistics functions, o that the type of information analysis done for CAMS be extended to the combined logistics functions without being constrained by the characteristics of today's information systems; o and that the benefits of implementing the resulting total system be compared with the likely benefits of continuing the incremental change from the currently approved, individual base-level functional systems.
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From page 31...
... Personnel strength and skill levels should be maintained by careful high-level selection of qualified staff. Performance review of the SPO can be maintained through appropriate Air Force acquisition review council reviews at appropriate milestones.
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From page 32...
... Therefore, we recommend that the Air Force conduct a survey of such software and that these packages be utilized to the maximum extent practicable in future base-level system improvements. With these recommendations the Committee can foresee a much stronger Air Force managerial control of the base-level automation environment.
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