The authors examine, in the context of great-power competition, how to craft, assess, and implement an organizational design in the U.S. Air Force to (1) design a force that is effective at deterring and, if necessary, fighting a peer adversary and (2) fund and field that force in a time frame that meets warfighting needs.
Authors
Peters, Heidi, Zakheim, Brett, Snyder, Don, Leftwich, James A., Lynch, Kristin F.
- Division
- RAND Project AIR FORCE Resource Management Program
- Pages
- 54
- Published in
- United States
- RAND Identifier
- RR-A2899-1
- RAND Type
- report
- Rights
- RAND Corporation
- Series
- Research Reports
- Source
- https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2899-1.html
Table of Contents
- Considerations Regarding Changes to the Organizational Design of the U.S. Air Force 1
- About This Report 3
- RAND Project AIR FORCE 3
- Acknowledgments 4
- Summary 5
- Issue 5
- Approach 5
- Conclusions 5
- General Observations 5
- Assessment of Previous Efforts 6
- Crafting an Organizational Design 6
- Implementing Organizational Designs 6
- Contents 8
- Figures 9
- The Context for Change 11
- Key Research Questions 11
- Research Approach 12
- Caveat 13
- Crafting Organizational Designs 14
- Organizational Direction 15
- Environment 15
- Goals 16
- Strategy 16
- Organizational Processes and Their Elements 17
- Locus of Decision Rights 18
- Supporting Decisions 18
- Accountability and Incentives 19
- People and Culture 19
- Organizational Structures 20
- Discussion 21
- Organizational Responsiveness 21
- Integrated View 23
- Evaluating Organizational Designs 24
- Historical Organizational Designs 24
- Description 24
- Assessment 26
- Future Organizational Designs 32
- Force Structure 32
- Corporate Structure 35
- Discussion 37
- Implementing Organizational Designs 39
- Persuade Internal and External Stakeholders That Change Is Needed 39
- Develop a Strategy for Change 41
- Develop a Strategy for Overcoming Any Internal Resistance 41
- Senior Leaders 42
- Workforce 42
- Convince Key External Stakeholders of the Merits of Change 43
- Properly Resource the Effort 43
- Monitor Success and Adjust Accordingly 44
- Findings and Recommendations Regarding Change 45
- Abbreviations 48
- References 49
