Examination of Air Force Crash Damage or Disabled Aircraft Recovery Program Resourcing

The Air Force's resources are becoming more constrained every year. In turn, these opportunities provide a roadmap for solution planning and programming in direct support of weapon systems and the warfighter. This research effort is an attempt to provide a regionalization methodology and cost benefit analysis for the Aircraft Crash Damaged or Disabled Aircraft Recovery (CDDAR) Program in order to provide better management and maximum utilization of scarce resources. If we contrast the capabilities in both permissive and opposed environments, we discover that capabilities of the Air Force CDDAR program are unparalleled, bar none, when it comes to flexibility and adaptability to overcome unforeseen circumstances. The Air Force must be good stewards of tax payer dollars and that is what drives this research.