In todays fiscal environment, it is increasingly challenging for the U.S. Air Force to manage all built and natural infrastructure activities. With less discretionary funding, the service needed a process to ensure limited funds were spent on the most critical needs. This meant challenging the status quo of maintaining infrastructure from a "fair share" discretionary approach to an enterprise-wide, risk-based, quantifiable funding structure that considers investments in the right asset at the right time. The concept of asset management is nothing new. Private industry and other government agencies have made capital investment decisions based on asset conditions and predictive modeling for some time. The Air Force's shaping of a more efficient asset management method began in 2007 with an activity management process that it then officially adopted in 2010-producing a disciplined, standardized approach across the enterprise.
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