Emergency Airlift: Responsiveness of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet Can Be Improved

摘要

To better ensure CRAF could be effectively mobilized in a national emergency, GAO believes actions are needed to emphasize the critical role of CRAF and the importance of being ready in the event of mobilization GAO recommends that the Secretary of Defense require MAC to provide typical workload data to key carrier representatives and evaluate the carriers' abilities to perform their missions; assess CRAF capability using data obtained from the carriers and from field exercises and simulations; evaluate CRAF carriers' efforts to meet their contractual requirements; consider the need for additional data communications capabilities at key military airfields for use by CRAF carriers during a national emergency; provide carriers responsible for supporting CRAF aircraft overseas with the general workload data on the numbers and types of aircraft to be supported at each airfield; and fully consider CRAF overseas support requirements in negotiating host nations support agreements.