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A Warrant Officer Component Or an Aviation Technical Track?
出版RAND Corporation, 2018
主題Business & Economics / TrainingHistory / Military / StrategyHistory / Military / Aviation & SpaceTechnology & Engineering / Military Science
ISBN19774009069781977400901
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=za5EuQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This report documents analyses to help the U.S. Air Force Director of Military Force Management Policy respond to a request from congressional staff to consider reimplementation of a warrant officer (WO) program in the Air Force, specifically to fill pilot requirements, or an alternative, an aviation technical track (ATT) for commissioned officers (COs). Either alternative would supplement the traditional pilot career path in a manner intended to enhance force sustainment and thus help to reduce pilot shortages at least cost. Only one alternative -- the ATT -- was found likely to achieve this objective. Any shift in management of the Air Force's pilot workforce must be evaluated with consideration of its centrality to the Air Force's core missions and the difficulty of keeping pilot production, absorption, retention, and overall inventory sustainment in balance. Pilot production and absorption are difficult to expand and are often constrained below levels needed to meet requirements. Retention is very sensitive to extrinsic factors, particularly major airline hiring. This report draws from RAND Project AIR FORCE capabilities and existing pilot models. In brief, the authors found that structural considerations would permit either a WO component or an ATT of the officer pilot force, sized at about 1,000 pilots out of a total requirement of a little under 13,000. Most importantly, the WO option would be expected to reduce pilot retention, while the ATT would be expected to increase it. Cost considerations, although minor, are favorable for both alternatives. Both present risks that merit more consideration than were possible in the analyses yet performed.