Appendix 4
From Lenny Siegel, Director, Pacific Studies Center
Private communication 7/3/96
A March, 1996 General Accounting Office (GAO) Report, "Military Airlift:
Observations on the Civil Reserve Air Fleet Program" (GAO/NSIAD-96-125),
found:
"The CRAF program is just below its requirement for aircraft to fly
long-range international cargo. Commercial carriers have committed 114 of
the 120 required wide-body equivalent aircraft to the CRAF program. However,
the current commitment is above the 17.5-million ton miles/day of capability
(or 101 wide-body equivalent aircraft) AMC [Air Mobility Command] depends
on getting from the CRAF Program."
Furthermore, carriers have committed 161 wide-body equivalents for passenger
transportation, compared to a current requirement of only 136.
The GAO report lists several approaches the Air Force is using to support
CRAF. CAMI is not discussed.
At the Mountain View hearing the other night, the spokesman from DHL said
he could not say exactly how CRAF CAMI approval at Moffett would influence
its participation in CRAF. That is, how many aircraft is Moffett access
worth? He better get cracking. The Department of Defense (DOD) Instruction,
"Civil Reserve Air Fleet Carrier Commercial Access to Military Installations
for Non-DOD Operations" (Number 4500.55, October 25, 1995), states:
"An air carrier may submit a proposal that identifies the installations
for which it desires to negotiate, the scope of its proposed operations,
and the number and type of additional aircraft it intends to offer to the
CRAF program under the CAMI program."