The conference will involve more than 400 military members from all services. Chris Castanon of the 507th. All the airlift and air refueling missions being planned by DOD are laid out.
Units are actually 'buying and selling' missions.
Everyone will be in the same place at the same time. Castanon said the event consolidates three individual conferences into one, saving taxpayer money. In the past, airlift and air refueling schedulers had to attend 12 separate conferences a year. With downsizing, that meant we had to be away from our jobs virtually three weeks a quarter, then hurry back to play catch up on our jobs. A scheduling conference first will be an automation program that will simultaneously broadcast mission schedule information to viewing screens in three separate conference areas.