Download or read book Service Contracting s Impact on Military Readiness written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Readiness Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SERVICE CONTRACTING S IMPACT ON MILITARY READINESS HEARING COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES U S HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 109TH CONGRESS 2ND SESSION written by and published by . This book was released on 2007* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contractor Support in the Department of Defense written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Readiness Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Readiness written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impact of Civilian Personnel Ceilings on the Contracting out Process written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Personnel and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Military Forces in FY 2020 written by Mark F. Cancian and published by Center for Strategic & International Studies. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report from the CSIS International Security Program analyzes the U.S. military forces in FY 2020, their composition, new initiatives, long-term trends, and challenges, as the United States attempts to align its forces with a strategy of long-term great power competition.
Download or read book Defense Logistics Reengineering Initiatives written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Readiness and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Government Policy and Practice with Respect to Contracts for Technical Services written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines impact of Government contracts for technical services on the business community, government efficiency and costs, and military readiness. Includes the following reports. a. "Government Competition with Private Enterprise," Senate Committee on Government Operations, June 21, 1963 (p. 289-357). b. "Critical Analysis of Opinion of Civil Service Commission Relating to Legality of Hiring Contract Technicians by the Department of Defense and Applicability of That Opinion To Support Contracts," Arnold P Porter, Counsel to National Council of Technical Service Industries, Dec. 1966 (p. 425-495).
Download or read book How Should the Army Use Contractors on the Battlefield Assessing Comparative Risk in Sourcing Decisions written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using contractors on the battlefield is risky, but the U.S. Army has relied on contractors on the battlefield throughout its history. Beginning with the Vietnam War, a variety of factors have led to growing dependence on contractors. Given the risks that contractors impose, is this increasing dependence appropriate? Throughout history, Army leaders have decried the risks associated with using contractors even as they continued to bring them to the battlefield to provide critical combat service support (CSS) activities. The Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs (ASA [M AND RA]) was concerned that many parts of the Army may make decisions that affect the use of contractors on the battlefield without adequately considering the effects of their decisions on military readiness. ASA (M AND RA) asked the Arroyo Center to examine this issue and recommend improvements. This report identifies the major decisions that shape the Army's use of contractors on the battlefield. It explains the arguments that have shaped these decisions. Drawing on the Army's own approach to assessing risk, Army and other Department of Defense (DoD) documents, field interviews, literature by Army personnel about their own experiences with contractors in deployments, and a detailed case study of the largest contract supporting Army deployed forces at the time, the report offers a conceptual framework the Army could use to revisit these decisions. The framework should make the connection between these decisions and their sourcing consequences more visible and lead to Army sourcing decisions more nearly consistent with its strategic goals. The report focuses on a choice between contract and military sources, but the framework could easily be applied to a broad set of alternatives.
Download or read book Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mission of the United States Army is to fight and win our nation's wars by providing prompt, sustained land dominance across the full range of military operations and spectrum of conflict in support of combatant commanders. Accomplishing this mission rests on the ability of the Army to equip and move its forces to the battle and sustain them while they are engaged. Logistics provides the backbone for Army combat operations. Without fuel, ammunition, rations, and other supplies, the Army would grind to a halt. The U.S. military must be prepared to fight anywhere on the globe and, in an era of coalition warfare, to logistically support its allies. While aircraft can move large amounts of supplies, the vast majority must be carried on ocean going vessels and unloaded at ports that may be at a great distance from the battlefield. As the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have shown, the costs of convoying vast quantities of supplies is tallied not only in economic terms but also in terms of lives lost in the movement of the materiel. As the ability of potential enemies to interdict movement to the battlefield and interdict movements in the battlespace increases, the challenge of logistics grows even larger. No matter how the nature of battle develops, logistics will remain a key factor. Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations explores Army logistics in a global, complex environment that includes the increasing use of antiaccess and area-denial tactics and technologies by potential adversaries. This report describes new technologies and systems that would reduce the demand for logistics and meet the demand at the point of need, make maintenance more efficient, improve inter- and intratheater mobility, and improve near-real-time, in-transit visibility. Force Multiplying Technologies also explores options for the Army to operate with the other services and improve its support of Special Operations Forces. This report provides a logistics-centric research and development investment strategy and illustrative examples of how improved logistics could look in the future.
Download or read book Strengthening the Military Family Readiness System for a Changing American Society written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. military has been continuously engaged in foreign conflicts for over two decades. The strains that these deployments, the associated increases in operational tempo, and the general challenges of military life affect not only service members but also the people who depend on them and who support them as they support the nation â€" their families. Family members provide support to service members while they serve or when they have difficulties; family problems can interfere with the ability of service members to deploy or remain in theater; and family members are central influences on whether members continue to serve. In addition, rising family diversity and complexity will likely increase the difficulty of creating military policies, programs and practices that adequately support families in the performance of military duties. Strengthening the Military Family Readiness System for a Changing American Society examines the challenges and opportunities facing military families and what is known about effective strategies for supporting and protecting military children and families, as well as lessons to be learned from these experiences. This report offers recommendations regarding what is needed to strengthen the support system for military families.
Download or read book Enabler Or Vulnerability written by U S Military and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Army's practice of supplementing capabilities with contracted ones has greatly expanded since the end of the Vietnam War and creation of the All-Volunteer Force. Operational Contract Support (OCS), the process of planning for and obtaining supplies, services, and construction from commercial sources in support of combatant commander directed operations, is often the first option a commander turns to in contingency operations. OCS can be the most politically and operationally expedient option for providing the commander with critical, time-sensitive capabilities. However, because of its expedient nature, OCS has taken on an outsized role in U.S. Army operations, reaching a point of over-saturation today. As the U.S. Army transitions its focus to large-scale combat operations (LSCO), it is necessary to examine whether its over-reliance on OCS over the last several decades has left behind any institutional bad habits which might make the force vulnerable in a more lethal type of conflict. This monograph examines OCS in the light of FM 3-0, and against the backdrop of the Gulf War. It concludes that a certain level of OCS will enable future LSCO, but the U.S. Army's current application of OCS will lead to decreased operational readiness in the Active and Reserve components.This compilation also includes a reproduction of the 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community.The Battle for Mosul in 2017 is a continuation of this tradition. The battle saw an Iraqi-led coalition defeat ISIS and reclaim the city of Mosul. Afterwards, the Center for Army Lessons Learned formed a study group to determine recommendations for future actions from the nine-month campaign. The result was a collaborative report designed to feed the U.S. Army with relevant and timely observations that could be inserted back into the force for immediate effect. One of the key observations concerned the limitations of contract support in high-intensity conflict. The Mosul report was written specifically in the context of an advise-and-assist environment, but the risk it highlights will be even greater in large-scale combat operations (LSCO). The new FM 3-0 describes the need to create both an expeditionary capability and mindset in the force. If the Army is going to adopt an expeditionary mindset in an operating environment where all domains are becoming increasingly contested, then finding solutions to the problem posed by the Mosul report is imperative. The practice of contracting commercial services to augment or supplement the military force in the U.S. is as old as the Revolutionary War, but in the post-Cold War military paradigm, the U.S. developed an unhealthy over-reliance on far too many critical services and capabilities. For instance, in 2010 contractors comprised 39 percent of the total defense workforce.
Download or read book Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 H R 1401 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs Before the Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives One Hundred Sixth Congress First Session written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Readiness and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Combating Tobacco Use in Military and Veteran Populations written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The health and economic costs of tobacco use in military and veteran populations are high. In 2007, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD) requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) make recommendations on how to reduce tobacco initiation and encourage cessation in both military and veteran populations. In its 2009 report, Combating Tobacco in Military and Veteran Populations, the authoring committee concludes that to prevent tobacco initiation and encourage cessation, both DoD and VA should implement comprehensive tobacco-control programs.
Download or read book Government Policy and Practice with Respect to Contracts for Technical Services written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines impact of Government contracts for technical services on the business community, government efficiency and costs, and military readiness. Includes the following reports. a. "Government Competition with Private Enterprise," Senate Committee on Government Operations, June 21, 1963 (p. 289-357). b. "Critical Analysis of Opinion of Civil Service Commission Relating to Legality of Hiring Contract Technicians by the Department of Defense and Applicability of That Opinion To Support Contracts," Arnold P Porter, Counsel to National Council of Technical Service Industries, Dec. 1966 (p. 425-495).
Download or read book Dod Contracting written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO assessed the decisions of Lowry Air Force Base (AFB), Columbus AFB, and the Navy to contract for aircraft maintenance services, focusing on: (1) projected cost savings; (2) the potential impact on personnel and equipment readiness; (3) the economic impact on the affected communities; (4) the impact on wartime mobilization requirements and personnel rotation schedules; and (5) other impacts on base functions. GAO found that: (1) Lowry AFB would realize its projected savings of $3.4 million; (2) the Navy, which consolidated several air stations' aircraft maintenance requirements under two contracts, would realize most of its projected savings of $52.6 million; (3) Columbus AFB probably would not realize its projected savings of $4.2 million due to unsatisfactory contractor performance, and could incur additional costs in excess of those initially estimated for in-house maintenance; (4) most civilians obtained other government employment, and military personnel transferred, retired, or left the service; (5) both the Navy and the Air Force reported a minimal economic impact on the affected communities; (6) both the Navy and the Air Force reported no impacts on mobilization requirements or rotation schedules; and (7) loss of some of the personnel had a slight, but insignificant, impact on other base functions, such as commissary services and recreation facilities.
Download or read book Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1994 and the Future Years Defense Program Military readiness and defense infrastructure written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
