Download or read book Army Equipping Strategy written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Army Equipping Strategy describes the ends, ways, and means the Army will use to ensure Soldiers and units have the right equipment in the quantities needed to accomplish assigned missions in support of Combatant Commander (COCOM) requirements. It describes how equipment and capabilities, provided by the Army Modernization Strategy, are distributed and placed into a unit to synchronize it with its assigned mission. The strategy establishes goals, targets and metrics for achieving a balance between requirements and resources. The scope of the Equipping Strategy includes the entire Army: Active Component (AC), Army National Guard (ARNG) and the U.S. Army Reserve (USAR). It addresses the Operational Force (both rotational and non-rotational) and the Generating Force. The Strategy is a dynamic and flexible document that addresses the divergent needs and requirements for all components.
Download or read book United States Army Reserve Equipping Strategy written by Douglas R. Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) directs the Army to program sufficient forces to implement the National Military Strategy (NMS) . Inherent in the Army's ability to support this strategic guidance is the integration of the Active Component (AC) and the Reserve Components (RC) into a Total Force. Early access of the United States Army Reserve (USAR) combat support (CS) and combat service support (CSS) units is essential. These units are configured into force packages designed to support the warfighter. The USAR tiered resourcing guidance is in compliance with Department of the Army equipping policy of distributing equipment to the first-to-fight/first-to-support units. There are three approaches that the USAR is following that impact the equipping of units. This project will look at the three approaches, their differences and similarities and how they help equip USAR units. For the USAR to become a more relevant and strategic force in the 21st Century, it must have a coordinated and integrated published equipping strategy that will provide a capable force to support the NSS and NMS.
Download or read book United States Army Reserve Equipping Strategy written by Douglas R. Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) directs the Army to program sufficient forces to implement the National Military Strategy (NMS) . Inherent in the Army's ability to support this strategic guidance is the integration of the Active Component (AC) and the Reserve Components (RC) into a Total Force. Early access of the United States Army Reserve (USAR) combat support (CS) and combat service support (CSS) units is essential. These units are configured into force packages designed to support the warfighter. The USAR tiered resourcing guidance is in compliance with Department of the Army equipping policy of distributing equipment to the first-to-fight/first-to-support units. There are three approaches that the USAR is following that impact the equipping of units. This project will look at the three approaches, their differences and similarities and how they help equip USAR units. For the USAR to become a more relevant and strategic force in the 21st Century, it must have a coordinated and integrated published equipping strategy that will provide a capable force to support the NSS and NMS.
Download or read book Reserve Forces written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Army Equipment Modernization Strategy written by U. S. Military and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Army must be manned, equipped and trained to prevent conflict, shape the security environments and win wars. When adequately tailored, the Army, as part of the Joint Force, provides multiple options, integrates efforts of multiple partners and operates across multiple domains to present enemies and adversaries with multiple dilemmas. The Army Operating Concept, October 2014, identifies the first order capabilities the Army needs to meet these challenges. This Army Equipment Modernization Strategy describes how the Army will apply resources to adapt materiel in the near-term, evolve programs in the mid-term and innovate with Science and Technology for the long-term. In the near-term through FY 2020, the Army will use existing capabilities in new ways, modify and adapt capabilities to respond to new needs and more rapidly exploit new opportunities with innovative approaches. The Army must adapt faster than enemies and potential adversaries. In the mid-term, FY 2021-2029, the Army will evolve capabilities to retain overmatch and enhance expeditionary maneuver to rapidly deploy and conduct operations with ample duration and sufficient scale to win. For the long-term, the Army will innovate with less mature, but promising technologies to sustain Army asymmetric advantages and achieve significant leaps in warfighting efficiency and effectiveness. The Army Equipment Modernization Strategy applies the first principles for technological development which emphasize the integration of technology with Soldiers and teams to Enhance the Soldier for Broad Joint Mission Support. Our Soldiers and our foundational tactical formation, the Squad, must Remain Prepared for Joint Combined Arms Maneuver to defeat enemies at close quarters in urban and complex terrain. Our formations must possess the right combination of mobility, protection and lethality to fight and win. This strategy seeks to simplify systems, maximize reliability, describe equipment that ensures the capacity and readiness to accomplish any mission and reduce logistical demands and life cycle costs. It ensures interoperability and anticipates enemy countermeasures and Enables Mission Command by investing in a network with agile and expeditionary tactical command posts that are supported by a more robust home station architecture.
Download or read book Army G 8 written by United States. Department of the Army. Deputy Chief of Staff, G-8, Plans and Policy Division and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This White Paper describes the ends, ways, and means to achieve an effective and affordable Equipping Strategy for the Army. It establishes an enduring view of how the Army will adjust its equipping processes, organizations, and expectations in a cost-conscious era of fiscal challenge. It also provides equipping guidance to facilitate the Army's transition to an Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN)-based force. The overarching challenge for the Army is to carefully manage its equipment resources to meet the demands of equipping units rotating to war through cyclic force management"--Page 1.
Download or read book Army Equipment Modernization Strategy written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review identifies 11 mission areas in which the Army plays a significant role to support U.S. policy in a rapidly changing security environment. The Army must be manned, equipped and trained to prevent confolict, shape the security environments and win wars. This document describes how the Army will apply resources to adapt materiel in the near-term, evolve programs in the mid-term and innovate with Science and Technology for the long-term.
Download or read book Reserve Forces written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-13 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reserve Forces: Aspects of the Army's Equipping Strategy Hamper Reserve Readiness
Download or read book A New Equipping Strategy written by Institute of Land Warfare (Association of the United States Army) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses many of the Army's modernization priorities as it looks to the third decade of the 21st century. To provide U.S. combatant commanders with land forces that have the capability, capacity and diversity to succeed in this environment, the Army must continuously assess and adjudicate three foundational imperatives: endstrength/force structure, readiness and modernization. The Army must balance these three elements to prevent conflict, shape the environment and win decisively. To develop the right force design and mix to execute these imperatives, an equipping strategy for the Army of 2020 must acquire and modernize equipment in ways that provide the best force for the nation within the resources available. The Army's acquisition and modernization approach acknowledges the healthy tension of balancing short-term (zero to two years), mid-term (two to eight years) and long-term (more than eight years) equipping challenges to support a strategic ground force that is superior, credible and rapidly deployable.
Download or read book Efficiencies from Applying a Rotational Equipping Strategy written by Christopher G. Pernin and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To meet the demands of the past decade of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has adopted a rotational strategy based on the Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN) model, but equipping policies have not yet been adapted to the model. This report analyzes how the Army might reduce equipment in early phases of the ARFORGEN cycle, how changes might be applied across Army units and equipment, and how changes might affect near- and far-term budgets.
Download or read book The Army Modernization Imperative written by Andrew Hunter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Army currently faces a difficult truth: without changes to its modernization strategy, the Army risks losing qualitative tactical overmatch. A lost procurement decade and recent, significant modernization funding declines have resulted in an Army inventory that remains heavily leveraged on the “Big Five” programs, originally procured in the 1970s and 1980s. Meanwhile, technology proliferation has made potential state and nonstate adversaries increasingly capable; shrinking the U.S. overmatch advantage and in some cases surpassing it. While current and projected future Army modernization funding is below historical averages, necessitating increased modernization funding to ensure continued U.S. qualitative tactical overmatch, the Army’s modernization problem cannot be fixed only by increasing modernization funding. Additional funds also need to be accompanied by an updated Army modernization strategy that presents a compelling case for modernization funding and sets clear priorities for fulfilling future operational requirements.
Download or read book Army Equipment Program in Support of President s Budget 2015 written by Department of Department of the Army and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Army Equipment Program in support of the President's Budget 2015 (AEP PB describes the Army Research, Development and Acquisition (RDA) budget for key capability portfolio areas and the Science and Technology portion of the Fiscal Year 2015 (FY 2015) President's Budget request. The AEP PB 15 is renamed this year to better reflect the focus of the Army's portfolio management and equipment descriptions, but flows from the previous Army Equipment Modernization Strategy and 2014 Army Equipment Modernization Plan. This document delineates RDA investments into 11 capability portfolio areas, highlights the portfolio accomplishments over the last two years and provides intent for FY 2015 investments. The dollars and quantities in this document reflect President's Budget 2015. The objective of Army equipment modernization is to enable our Soldiers to fight and win across the entire range of military operations by developing and fielding versatile and tailorable equipment that is affordable, sustainable and cost-effective. The Army has developed several initiatives to guide equipment modernization during this period of fiscal constraint. The Total Army focuses equipping modernization on the Soldier and squad providing them with the Network and key enablers. We use incremental improvements to improve existing systems as our first option and build new systems only by exception. The Army is divesting older systems and niche capabilities to decrease sustainment costs and generate additional resources for modernization and readiness. Next, we are developing smaller procurement objectives because the Army cannot afford to equip and sustain the entire force with the most advanced equipment. Our procurements are to insert needed technologies and capability improvements, leveraging commercial investment where we are "technology-takers" (e.g., information technology, fixed wing aviation) and our own focused investments in technology where we are "technology-makers" (e.g., lethality, armor, rotary wing aviation). Finally, each equipment decision is reviewed to ensure it is both affordable within the overall budget and is cost-effective in addressing the capability gap.
Download or read book Managing Military Readiness written by Institute for National Strategic Studies (U.S.) and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2017 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This paper presents an analytic framework that builds from previous work to yield the systematic and defendable readiness analysis that must underlie decisions ranging from budget allocation to force employment and even strategy development. To manage readiness, the Department of Defense must balance the supply and demand of deployable forces around the world. The readiness of an individual unit is the result of a series of time-intensive force generation processes that ultimately combine qualified people, working equipment, and unit training to produce military capabilities suitable for executing the defense strategy. While this discussion is a basic tenet of production theory, it had not been commonly applied to readiness management until recently. The important point here is that understanding how the readiness of military capabilities is generated provides the clearest picture of the current readiness status and whether that status is likely to change over time. Furthermore, it provides the best shot at identifying effective management policies to ensure that DOD can generate the capabilities that the Nation asks of it. This paper argues that traditional unit-level readiness metrics are useful as part of a larger readiness management construct, but by themselves they do not provide enough information to proactively manage strategically. This approach provides a clear explanation of the causes of readiness degradations and options for how to mitigate them that can be traced to precise resource investments"--Page 1.
Download or read book Reserve Forces written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Methodology for Developing Army Acquisition Strategies for an Uncertain Future written by John E. Peters and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph addresses the following two specific questions: What should a robust acquisition investment strategy look like-one designed to perform well against all anticipated threats? How should the Army acquisition community assess the appropriateness of its investment strategy over time? The study proposes adaptation of a RAND tool called Assumption-Based Planning to help Army personnel maintain proper alignment between strategic guidance and the Army acquisition program and budget. It uses this tool to create a model that recommends acquisition investments across a broad range of capabilities. The model works toward the goal of satisfying the complex and evolving requirements specified in the national security guidance. The model applies five main steps, by identifying (1) the assumptions that underlie Army acquisition policy; (2) load-bearing assumptions, i.e., important assumptions that underpin and shape Army acquisition plans; (3) signposts or indicators that an assumption is becoming vulnerable; (4) shaping actions that can be taken to keep assumptions viable, and (5) hedging actions that can be taken to prepare for unwelcome but unpreventable developments. For the acquisitions community, shaping and hedging actions both take the form of investments.
Download or read book Lying to Ourselves written by Leonard Wong and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the hallmarks of a true profession is its ability to assess and regulate itself, especially with respect to adherence to its foundational ethos. Such self-examination is difficult and often causes discomfort within the profession. Nonetheless, it is absolutely necessary to enable members of the profession to render the service for which the profession exists. U.S. military professionals have never shied away from this responsibility, and they do not today, as evidenced by this riveting monograph. Discussing dishonesty in the Army profession is a topic that will undoubtedly make many readers uneasy. It is, however, a concern that must be addressed to better the Army profession. Through extensive discussions with officers and thorough and sound analysis, Drs. Leonard Wong and Stephen Gerras make a compelling argument for the Army to introspectively examine how it might be inadvertently encouraging the very behavior it deems unacceptable.
Download or read book New Equipping Strategies for Combat Support Hospitals written by Matthew W. Lewis and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Army uses Combat Support Hospitals (CSHs) -- mobile, deployable hospitals housed in tents and expandable containers -- to provide surgical and trauma care close to combat action. CSHs typically operate as hospitals only when deployed, and deployments occur only once every three to five years under the Army's rotational cycle. When not deployed, CSHs keep a partial set of equipment at home station for training or possible local emergency medical missions, while the remainder of the unit's equipment is in long-term storage at a site in the high desert of Northern California. This strategy of providing equipment for CSHs has created maintenance and obsolescence challenges. Nondeployed CSHs have old, poorly maintained equipment that is seldom or never used. Further, the Army has not programmed sufficient funds to keep all its CSH sets technologically current; in practice, deploying units do not deploy with their own equipment, but instead receive new medical equipment when deploying or take ownership of existing, upgraded equipment that is already deployed. RAND Arroyo Center researchers developed a new equipping strategy for the Army's CSHs, proposing three options for home station equipment sets: an "Expanded" design that provides more surgical and trauma capability and capacity; an "Enhanced" design that provides roughly the same amount of equipment but improved medical capabilities; and a "Lean" design that provides only enough equipment for some individual and team training. The research team also proposed changing the equipping strategy of deploying CSHs to eliminate much of the unit-owned equipment now residing in long-term storage. Deploying units would instead draw on a shared pool of up-to-date and well-maintained equipment. The proposed strategy would reduce total equipment costs from $1 billion to less than $700 million, leaving the Army with sufficient funds to continually upgrade and maintain both home-station and shared equipment.
