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Author : William W. Kaufmann
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:B3862027
In this book, William Kaufmann raises two issues: the merits of the case for the base force and the extent to which further cuts in U.S. capabilities and costs can be prudently made.
Author : Leslie Lewis,Charles Robert Roll,John D. Mayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Manpower policy
ISBN : LCCN:93184188
This report examines the Department of Defense (DoD) Base Force decision process. It assesses how the process worked within the framework of the Planning, Programming and Budgeting System (PPBS), DoD's resource allocation and management framework. It evaluates the quality of information and options presented to key DoD players during the implementation, and it describes the interactions that took place among these players during the force structure debate. During the planning phase of the PPBS, debate focused on risk, mobilization, deployments capability, readiness, and cost and cost-effectiveness issues regarding force structure options. During the programming phase, fiscal constraints were applied to the continued debate. This phase introduced the initial elements of the Base Force. The budgeting phase was driven by costs and resulted in the implementation of the Base Force. The Base Force process involved the Chairman, the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) and the military departments. Each of the military departments responded differently to the possibility of reductions in force structure. The Air Force adapted to the new policy with only minor modifications to its previous program. The Navy accepted the idea of a base force, but argued about what constituted a base force. The Army debated the legitimacy of a base force and the numbers involved. It was the service most affected by the outcome of the decision. However, the debate among all participants, including the military departments, effected changes in the final status of the Base Force. The authors assert in a final assessment of the Base Force decision process that, despite the many challenges of DoD's dynamic environment, the decisionmaking framework functioned successfully in that options were raised and debated by all participants.
Author : Michael J. Lostumbo,Michael J. McNerney,Eric Peltz,Derek Eaton,David R. Frelinger
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780833079152
This independent assessment is a comprehensive study of the strategic benefits, risks, and costs of U.S. military presence overseas. The report provides policymakers a way to evaluate the range of strategic benefits and costs that follow from revising the U.S. overseas military presence by characterizing how this presence contributes to assurance, deterrence, responsiveness, and security cooperation goals.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428981751
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Armies, Cost of
ISBN : LCCN:93184281
This report, part of the congressionally mandated active/reserve assessment study, explains and illustrates the methods, assumptions, and data that RAND used to estimate the costs of alternative force mixes and structures for the Army and the Air Force. The costing task assisted in designing the alternatives, which were sized to meet two possible targets for long-run annual recurring costs, one similar to the existing defense Base Force program and the other consistent with recent proposals to reduce defense spending further. During the study's evaluation phase, the costing task examined the near-term cost of achieving each alternative.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031865926
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Military bases
ISBN : PSU:000014985973
Author : Lorna S. Jaffe
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UCR:31210024769687
Describes the events which led to the first major overhaul of United States military strategy since World War 2. Includes the basic elements of the Base Force Concept along with principal personalities and entities involved with its development, such as General Colin Powell and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and National Security Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Computers
ISBN : LOC:0018543591A
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : United States
ISBN : PURD:32754076567647
Author : Lorna Jaffe
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1480124818
Since the late 1940s the United States had based its national military strategy on the necessity of deterring and, if deterrence failed, successfully fighting a global war against the Soviet Union. In 1987 Joint Staff strategists began to examine some of the planning assumptions supporting this strategy. Their review led them to conclude that national military strategy should put greater emphasis on regional planning. While strategists were developing new approaches based initially on assessments of US capabilities but increasingly on their assessment of the reduced threat from the Warsaw Pact, Joint Staff force planners in 1988 began to analyze the force structure that supported current strategy. The prospect of an accelerated decline in defense funding, together with the sweeping changes taking place within the Warsaw Pact, prompted them to recommend significant force reductions. When General Colin L. Powell became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in October 1989, he brought to the position his own views on the likely shape of the world in the 1990s and a determination to restructure the US Armed Forces to meet this new environment. He not only gave direction to the efforts already under way on the Joint Staff but pushed them farther, shaping them to conform to his strategic vision. The result was a new national military strategy and a new conceptualization of force structure to support this strategy. This strategy and its supporting configuration of forces marked a major departure from the US approach to the world during the preceding forty-plus years. Their development influenced as well the development of a new national defense strategy and a new national security strategy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112001075867
Contains an inventory of evaluation reports produced by and for selected Federal agencies, including GAO evaluation reports that relate to the programs of those agencies.
Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Air Force Studies Board,Committee on Evaluation of U.S. Air Force Preacquisition Technology Development
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309209977
From the days of biplanes and open cockpits, the air forces of the United States have relied on the mastery of technology. From design to operation, a project can stretch to 20 years and more, with continuous increases in cost. Much of the delay and cost growth afflicting modern United States Air Force (USAF) programs is rooted in the incorporation of advanced technology into major systems acquisition. Leaders in the Air Force responsible for science and technology and acquisition are trying to determine the optimal way to utilize existing policies, processes, and resources to properly document and execute pre-program of record technology development efforts, including opportunities to facilitate the rapid acquisition of revolutionary capabilities and the more deliberate acquisition of evolutionary capabilities. Evaluation of U.S. Air Force Preacquisition Technology Development responds to this need with an examination of the current state of Air Force technology development and the environment in which technology is acquired. The book considers best practices from both government and industry to distill appropriate recommendations that can be implemented within the USAF.
Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Air Force Studies Board,Planning Committee for a Workshop on Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309296809
Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy is the summary of a workshop convened by the Air Force Studies Board of the National Academies' National Research Council in September 2013 to enhance Air Force and Department of Defense (DoD) prototyping for the new defense strategy. This workshop examined of a wide range of prototyping issues, including individual recommendations for a renewed prototype program, application of prototyping as a tool for technology/system development and sustainment (including annual funding), and positive and negative effects of a renewed program. Prototyping has historically been of great benefit to the Air Force and DoD in terms of risk reduction and concept demonstration prior to system development, advancing new technologies, workforce enhancement and skills continuity between major acquisitions, dissuasion of adversaries by demonstrating capabilities, maintaining technological surprise through classified technologies, and an overarching strategy of overall risk reduction during austere budget environments. Over the last two decades, however, many issues with prototyping have arisen. For example, the definitions and terminology associated with prototyping have been convoluted and budgets for prototyping have been used as offsets to remedy budget shortfalls. Additionally, prototyping has been done with no strategic intent or context, and both government and industry have misused prototyping as a key tool in the DoD and defense industrial base. Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy envisions a prototyping program that encourages innovation in new concepts and approaches and provides a means to assess and reduce risk before commitment to major new programs.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX