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Airlift Program

The purpose of this program is to enable DoD to move large amounts of personnel and materiel to, and within, remote locations in short periods of time by developing and producing a variety of airlift aircraft.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • This is a coherent program with a clear long-term goal, namely, to be able to move military forces and their equipment from the US to anywhere in the world whenever required.
  • DoD has not aggressively examined possible trade-offs within the airlift program that could lower the cost of meeting the airlift requirement without sacrificing military readiness or combat capabilities.
  • DoD is attempting to move towards an overall assessment of the capabilities provided by its programs, rather than its traditional assessment of individual acquisition programs. The program's assessment showed that DoD still has more to do in this area.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Working to refine methods for assessing the effectiveness of the overall airlift program in light of the needs of the global war on terror.
  • Reviewing the size and type of mobility forces (which includes airlift forces) that will be required to fulfill DoD's missions in light of the Quadriennial Defense Review of strategy.

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