Essential Characteristics
Reach - Extent of coverage across AoR and duration of at-risk operations
(range, endurance, area covered)
Penetration - Combat environment limits for conduct of rescue operations
(service envelope, ops limits, WEZ)
Responsiveness - Time needed to effect critical mission events
(time to contact, rescue, recover)
Capacity - Max surge/sustained rate for number of missions or saves
(sortie rate, saves/hour, saves/day)
Sustainability - Investment / expense for success and sustainment
(money, time, materiel & man power)
Interoperability - Ability to service /accept support from host organization
(# operable interfaces, criticality of ea.)
Survivability - Risk of force attrition due to hostile activity
(lethality/proliferation vs loss rates/risk)
Availability - When (how soon - how much of the time) there is coverage
(time to IOC, operating hours)
Notes:
SLIDE 7: Principles of CSAR – Measures of Effectiveness Drilling deeper into the critical issues – the demands and constraints – we get higher resolution principles for CSAR. As essential characteristics, they provide a template for comparing competing concepts for either patching mission deficiencies or for opportunities for improvement. Coverage can be decomposed into for operational principles and the constraints of risk and cost can be broken down into four sustainment principles.