Download or read book Transformation and the Army School System written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Army Transformation and wider operational demands are placing increased demands on Army training and The Army School System (TASS), which is responsible for the vast majority of institutional training in both the Active Component (AC) and Reserve Component (RC). This report identifies policies and options for increasing TASS's contribution to Army readiness while improving the integration of the AC and RC training systems. The study recommends, first, that TASS adopt private sector practices, organizational models, and technologies to improve its approach for developing interactive media instruction (IMI) training (a key form of future training). The study also recommends that TASS expand its training delivery options by developing a more effective local training system to conduct selected courses and support other unit training needs. Finally, TASS should seek to leverage available training resources to improve integration of AC-RC training institutions and provide additional training options. Suggestions are presented for three potential pilot studies-low-cost demonstration projects-that would help assess the costs and tradeoffs involved in the overall change strategy.

Download or read book Transformation and the Army School System written by Michael G. Shanley and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policies and options for The Army School System (TASS) to meet the Army's current and future training demands.

Download or read book Army Transformation A View from the U S Army War College written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kevlar Legions The Transformation of the United States Army 1989 2005 written by John Sloan Brown and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-12 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how the United States Army responded to the challenges of the end of the Cold War by transforming itself into the most capable ground force in the world today. It argues that from 1989 through 2005 the U.S. Army attempted, and largely achieved, a centrally directed and institutionally driven transformation relevant to ground warfare that exploited Information Age technology, adapted to post?Cold War strategic circumstances, and integrated into parallel Department of Defense efforts. The process not only modernized equipment, it also substantially altered doctrine, organization, training, administrative and logistical practices, and the service culture. Kevlar Legions further contends that the digitized expeditionary Army has withstood the test of combat, performing superbly with respect to deployment and high-end conventional combat and capably with respect to low-intensity conflict and the counterinsurgency challenges of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Download or read book Restructuring the Total Army School System written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some time, the U.S. Army has recognized persistent problems in its extensive system of schools that provide technical and leadership training for the Reserve Components (RC)-the U.S. Army Reserve (USAR) and the Army National Guard (ARNG). To respond to these concerns, the Army (beginning in FY94) initiated a test of a 'prototype' regional school system in the southeastern United States for achieving consolidations and improving training standards, which, among other things, served as a foundation for a longer-term goal-establishing a cohesive and efficient Total Army School System (TASS) of fully accredited and integrated schools to serve all Army components. Given the magnitude of change envisioned for the TASS, RAND's Arroyo Center was asked to independently and objectively assess the operation of the RC school system, including the TASS concept. This documented briefing provides a baseline description of the RC training system in terms of three key assessment areas: (1) training requirements and school production; (2) quality of training; and (3) resources and costs. It also describes how the prototype may affect the range of problems described by the data.

Download or read book The Total Army School System written by John D. Winkler and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Army operates an extensive system of schools and centers that provide military education and training to soldiers in the Active Component and the two Reserve Components, the U.S. Army National Guard and the U.S. Army Reserve. This system includes Reserve Component (RC) training institutions that provide reclassification training for enlisted personnel who change military occupational specialties and leader training for both commissioned and noncommissioned officers. As the result of an assessment conducted in the early 1990s, the Army and other agencies concluded that the Reserve Component training system was inefficient and difficult to manage and that the quality of training was inconsistent. Concurrently, defense downsizing and resource reductions were making it necessary to shrink the training infrastructure and reduce training costs.

Download or read book Annual Review written by United States. National Guard Bureau and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Army Enlisted School System written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Supporting Training Strategies for Brigade Combat Teams Using Future Combat Systems FCS Technologies written by Michael G. Shanley and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study seeks to help the Army identify options to improve its future (i.e., circa 2016) training strategies for Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs) equipped with Future Combat System (FCS) technologies. Key findings are that live training will need to remain at the core of training programs for FCS units, and that adaptation to changing operational requirements will be a primary training challenge. Overall, the findings indicate that planned training enhancements can provide important improvements across a wide spectrum; however, the overall training capability achieved will likely be less than that needed to meet future training requirements. Unit time, the potential for technological advancement, and training budgets were found to be key constraints. While the study stresses greater emphasis on training manpower support in battle command training as the Army's best chance for significant near-term improvement, it concludes that longer-term improvement will depend on how closely the Army monitors and manages its enhancement programs. The process of shaping and balancing future training enhancements, for example, would benefit from better information and improved evaluative capabilities. These changes would be further enhanced by developing better metrics for the quality, quantity, and adaptability of training, by continuing to improve spiral development processes to evolve training methods and means, and by improving the visibility of financial information across training categories.

Download or read book Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 21st Century Transformation written by Scott T. Kendrick and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of the monograph is to determine whether or not the Army has previously transformed under the same conditions and for similar reasons. If the Army has faced a similar situation, the monograph seeks to highlight the mistakes to avoid and lessons learned that can be applied today in order to improve the 21st Century transformation process. Additionally this monograph seeks to educate the officer corps on the difficulties and complexities of institutional transformation and dispel the natural fear and traditional military resistance to change by articulating the logic of the current Army transformation and the necessity to adapt order to prepare for the uncertainties of the future. This monograph illustrates the nature and challenges of Army transformation since the Civil War. The monograph thoroughly researches and describes four periods of Army transformation. These are the post-Civil War, Pre-WW II, post-Vietnam, and post-Cold War eras. It examines each period's changing security environment, advances in weapons technology, and the political and military culture and types of resistance. The monograph identifies the Army's basic problem or challenge of the period, and explains the Army's method and process implemented to adapt and solve the problem. The monograph also identifies the Army's key individuals that made significant contributions during each transformation. The monograph concludes that the 21st Century transformation is similar to the post Civil War period of change. The way the Army created and used the formal military school system after the Civil War as an intellectual vehicle for enlightenment in how to organize and fight in the Industrial Age is analogous to the 21st Century transformation creating and fielding the interim force in order to understand how to organize, equip, and prepare leaders for war in the Information Age. Both periods were also influenced by the defeat or dissolution of the only major threat to the United States. In both cases, the Army assumed different and unconventional missions shortly afterwards. The monograph recommends that the 21st century transformation campaign place more emphasis on incorporating into the Army's officer professional development program more combat training in urban terrain in order to prepare the officer corps and the force for the variety of uncertain and complex threats of the future.--"Abstract.

Download or read book The Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proposals to Transform the U S Army Training and Doctrine Command TRADOC written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Personnel and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Field Artillery written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Complexity and Innovation Army Transformation and the Reality of War written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 12 October 1999, the U.S. Army began a journey down a new path to innovation, when General Eric Shinseki presented his vision of Army Transformation at the 45th annual meeting of the Association of the United States Army. In this speech, General Shinseki described the Army as an organization consisting of heavy forces with excellent staying power but poor strategic responsiveness, light forces with excellent responsiveness but poor staying power, and a logistics system with an excessively large footprint. His proposed solution, a comprehensive change of the Army resulting in full-spectrum dominance and strategic responsiveness, would occur so quickly as to "be unnerving to some." While this prediction has turned out in many ways to be true, it is not necessarily the speed of change that is unnerving to many of the people studying Army Transformation. This study's research question is, "Does Army Transformation embody the concepts of complexity theory as applied to organizational design?" Because Army Transformation lacks a clearly articulated theoretical framework, seeking to develop a Future Force in the absence of a specific operational design and supporting doctrine, the process is subordinated to the whims of Army culture and parochial bias. Complexity science is one possible source of sound theoretical principles that could provide a guiding framework to the transformation process. The study demonstrates that Army Transformation is in conflict with all of the major principles of dynamic systems, complex networks, chaos, and complexity theory. Several recommendations are provided in Chapter six. These recommendations focus on culture, by attempting to influence discourse so that it is at less risk of severe divergence with the reality of the complex world. In order to bring Army Transformation in line with CRP theory, the Army should: (1) facilitate emergence by encouraging the innovative efforts of change agents distributed throughout all levels of the A7.

Download or read book Transformation in Progress written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Professional Education written by Paul J. Reoyo and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Army, as an institution must face up to the new challenges of the 21st century and transform professional education with the same urgency and energy it is applying to develop the Objective Force. The post Cold War expansion of the Army's professional jurisdiction has created a gap between the knowledge that officers receive during their professional military education, and the professional knowledge that they need to effectively complete the missions they are being assigned in today's complex environment. Traditional warfighting proficiency must be combined with these additional skills if our Army is to remain the world's premier fighting force. Technology alone cannot fill the gap or provide the dominance required to win. This paper looks at the strategic environment, and emerging challenges that demand changes in the officer professional military education system. It examines the Army's current approach to officer education, and makes recommendations to bridge the gap between the Army's professional authority and the level of professional knowledge they have to apply to their work.