Readiness Reporting for an Adaptive Army

Christopher G. Pernin ; Dwayne M. Butler ; Louay Constant ; Lily Geyer ; Duncan Long ; Dan Madden ; John E. Peters ; James D. Powers ; Michael Shurkin

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation

关键词: Military Transformation;    Military Force Deployment;    United States Army;    Military Logistics;    Military Information Technology Systems;   

DOI  :  10.7249/RR230
ISBN  :  9780833080325
RP-ID  :  RR-230-A

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

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来源: RAND Corporation Published Research

【 摘 要 】

The Army has developed an impressive capacity to adapt to emerging requirements by providing units with new capabilities rapidly and flexibly as units prepare for deployment through the Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN) process. The Army's ability to report on readiness throughout these adaptations, however, is challenged. The readiness reporting system is largely predicated on a bottom-up, deliberate process with known milestones and predetermined designs to which the Army would build readiness. As those targets are changed, for instance when deploying to a changing operational environment as was seen in Iraq and Afghanistan, the reporting system cannot easily keep up. The key challenge to readiness reporting is that Army units now routinely prepare for assigned missions that sometimes differ in meaningful ways from their designed missions.