Interesting read here for anyone interested in US
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Even then, she wrote:
"Amidst the stresses on the current tanker force, the air refueling allocation process constrains the full exploitation of assets for customer use. Current business rules regarding use of tanker assets, in addition to long lead times required to schedule air refueling missions, have led Navy customers to turn to contract air refueling, or fee-for-service, for their training needs.
The Navy’s use of fee-for-service has become so successful, that the Air Force has now been directed to look into the feasibility of fee-for-service. Before the decision is made to allow ‘competitors’ to take part of this market, it is important that the Air Force to look at its air refueling allocation process through the business process reengineering lens."
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download...p;type=pdf
The USAF is finally looking at the use of contractors again - this time on a large scale as reported here:
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25292/l...e-and-more
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