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100 1  McGarvey, Ronald G. 
245 10 Commercial intratheater airlift :|bcost-effectiveness 
       analysis of use in U.S. Central Command /|cRonald G. 
       McGarvey, Thomas Light, Brent Thomas, Ricardo Sanchez ; 
       prepared for the United States Air Force. 
246 3  CITA, cost-effectiveness analysis of use in US CENTCOM 
264  1 Santa Monica, CA :|bRAND Corporation,|c2013. 
264  4 |c©2013 
300    1 online resource (xviii, 82 pages) :|billustrations. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Report ;|vTR-1313-AF 
500    "RAND Project Air Force." 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0  Introduction -- ITA in USCEN TCOM -- Determining Cost-
       Effectiveness of CITA Movements -- Conclusions and 
       Potential Extensions to Research -- Appendix A: Data 
       Merging -- Appendix B: Evaluation of the Theater Express 
       Program -- Appendix C: Estimating the Full Marginal Costs 
       of Utilizing C-130 Aircraft -- Appendix D: The Commercial 
       Intratheater Airlift Optimization Model. 
520    Intratheater airlift delivers critical and time-sensitive 
       supplies, such as blood products for transfusions or 
       repair parts for vehicles, to deployed forces. 
       Traditionally, military aircraft have provided this 
       airlift. However, for various reasons, in recent years a 
       number of commercial carriers have provided a significant 
       amount of airlift within U.S. Central Command. But was 
       this more cost-effective than using organic U.S. Air Force
       aircraft? To explore this question, the authors collected 
       historical (2009) U.S. Central Command data and created 
       models to identify the most cost-effective combination of 
       commercial and organic airlift to perform the required 
       movements. The calculations needed to address differences 
       in fixed and marginal costs across alternatives as well as
       the effects of price elasticities of demand for commercial
       airlift providers. Model optimization runs showed a 
       preference for U.S. Air Force-organic aircraft but 
       suggested that commercial alternatives should be retained 
       to supplement Air Force aircraft for a small fraction of 
       movements. The authors further observed that U.S. Central 
       Command planners could have benefitted from more 
       sophisticated decision support tools to make daily 
       intratheater cargo-aircraft allocation decisions. 
588 0  Print version record. 
610 10 United States.|bCentral Command. 
650  0 Airlift, Military|zUnited States|xCosts|xEvaluation. 
650  7 HISTORY|xMilitary|xAviation.|2bisacsh 
700 1  Light, Thomas|c(Economist) 
700 1  Thomas, Brent|c(Optimization specialist) 
700 1  Sanchez, Ricardo R.,|d1979- 
710 2  Project Air Force (U.S.) 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aMcGarvey, Ronald G.|tCommercial 
       intratheater airlift|z9780833078377|w(DLC)  2013004955
       |w(OCoLC)827010643 
830  0 Technical report (Rand Corporation) ;|vTR-1313-AF. 
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