"The Air Force civil engineering community has found that its methods for articulating infrastructure funding needs and mission impacts in the Program Objective Memorandum (POM) process are insufficient, and it is in the process of investigating alternatives. This analysis explores the relationship between Air Force infrastructure management and mission capability and risk. The goal is to identify methodological approaches and data requirements for articulating and quantifying these links and enabling the Air Force to answer the question: What is the effect of funding infrastructure below stated requirements? The authors identified three alternative approaches for answering the above question: a project scorecard approach, an approach based on mission outcome metrics, and an approach based on composite risk metrics. In this report, the authors assess the strengths, weaknesses, and relative implementation burden of each approach, and they explore ways to mitigate the weaknesses of each approach to make them most useful in the Air Force context. Finally, they identify steps the Air Force can take to implement these concepts and to improve its ability to develop a systematic, evidence-based case for sustainment, restoration, and modernization funding within the POM process more generally."--Publisher's description.

"Prepared for the United States Air Force"--Title page.

1. Introduction : Infrastructure degradation and the outcomes of inadequate funding -- Purpose of this report -- Scope of this report -- Organization of this report ; 2. Current Infrastructure Management Practices : Air Force infrastructure management -- Current Air Force infrastructure funding processes -- Current infrastructure project prioritization model ; 3. Three Approaches to Linking infrastructure to Mission : This project's methodology -- Scorecard analysis -- Mission outcome metrics -- Compositie risk metrics -- A case study for this project ; 4. Linking Infrastructure to Missions with Mathematical Modeling : Analytic approach -- Case study for Columbus AFB ; 5. Applying Methods to Air Force POM : Project Scorecard -- Mission outcome metrics -- Composite risk metrics ; 6. Conclusions and Recommendations : Conclusions -- Recommendations -- Future research -- Concluding thoughts ; Appendix : Select Findings from Literature Review of Commercial Approaches to Tracking and Forecasting Condition and Cost.