Air Force Maintenance Depots--The Need for More Responsiveness to Mobilization as Well as Peacetime Efficiency

The Air Force maintains depot repair capability to ensure a controlled source of competence to keep aircraft and other equipment ready in peacetime, sustain this hardware in the initial surge of a contingency or war, and provide a base for rapid expansion. Immediate and flexible responsiveness is considered to be a higher priority than the need to obtain efficiency for peacetime operations.