Air Mobility Plan, 2008 - The Black Vault

Air Mobility Operating Environment
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Global Mobility CONOPS
The Global Mobility CONOPS capabilities of airlift, air refueling, expeditionary air mobility
operations, spacelift, and SOF mobility create the effect of rapid projection and application of
Joint US military power. As we develop these capabilities and further describe them in supporting
functional and enabling concepts, it is critical that the capabilities incorporate, to the maximum extent
possible, the required Joint characteristics of being knowledge empowered, networked, interoperable,
expeditionary, adaptable/tailorable, enduring/persistent, precise, rapid (fast), resilient, agile, and
lethal. These characteristics are important because they serve as a guide to how the future Joint force
is to be developed, organized, trained, and equipped. The MAF is focused on increasing the precision
and velocity of air mobility operations.
Homeland Security CONOPS
Space and Command, Control,
Comm, Computers, Intel,
Surveillance, and Recon CONOPS
Global Mobility CONOPS
Global Strike CONOPS
Global Persistent Attack CONOPS
Nuclear Response CONOPS
Agile Combat Support CONOPS
Leverages Air Force capabilities with Joint and
interagency efforts to prevent, protect, and respond to
threats against our homeland—within or beyond US
territories.
Harnesses the integration of manned, unmanned, and
space systems to provide persistent situation awareness
and executable decision-quality information to the JFC.
Provides combatant commanders with the planning,
command and control, and operations capabilities to
enable timely and effective projection, employment,
and sustainment of US power in support of US global
interests—precision delivery for operational effect.
Employs Joint power-projection capabilities to engage
anti-access and high-value targets, gain access to denied
battlespace, and maintain battlespace access for required
Joint/coalition follow-on operations.
Provides a spectrum of capabilities from major combat
to peacekeeping and sustainment operations. Global
Persistent Attack assumes that once access conditions
are established (i.e., through Global Strike), there will
be a need for persistent and sustained operations to
maintain air, space, and information dominance.
Provides the deterrent “umbrella” under which
conventional forces operate, and, if deterrence fails,
avails a scalable response.
ACS is the ability to create, protect, and sustain air and
space forces across the full range of military operations.
It is the foundational and crosscutting system of support
enabling AF operational concepts and the capabilities
that distinguish air, space cyberspace power—speed,
flexibility, and global perspective.
Air Force Smart Operations for the Twenty-First Century (AFSO 21)
More efficient processes result in the deliberate and systematic elimination of surplus or waste—the
objective of AFSO 21 is to better utilize resources, increase speed, and create flexibility to increase
combat capability. It provides an AF approach to continuously improve all processes, develops a
culture which promotes elimination of waste, and ensures that all Airmen understand their role. The
MAF is fully engaged in AFSO 21; while it is modernizing the force to improve effectiveness and
efficiency, it is also increasing the velocity and precision of mobility operations through process
improvements, slashing waste throughout the Air Mobility Enterprise, and creating a lasting culture
of continuous process improvement.
OCT 07