Download or read book A Common Operating Picture for Air Force Materiel Sustainment written by Raymond A. Pyles and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2008-08-18 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a potential common operating system (COP) for the Air Force materiel sustainment system (MSS). The authors first develop a COP based on the principles of effects-based measures, schwerpunkt (organizational focus), decision rights, and a nonmarket economic framework, then they apply the COP to depot-level reparable component sustainment to illustrate how the COP would improve overall MSS efficiency and responsiveness.