In the past decade, the Army initiated two programs designed to dramatically alter the way its combat forces are equipped and organized. The Modularity Initiative would reorganize the Armys warfighting forces from divisions containing 12,000 to 17,000 or more soldiers to a larger number of smaller, interchangeable, and independent brigade combat teams (BCTs) of 3,000 to 4,000 soldiers. Before changes in the program were made on the basis of Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gatess announcement in April 2009, the Future Combat Systems (FCS) program would have, among other things, replaced the Armys heavy tracked armored vehicles developed in the 1960s and 1970s with lighter and more mobile combat vehicles that would be equally as survivable. Army leaders have contended that together those two programs would yield an Army that could respond to crises around the world more quickly and that would be more mobile and technically sophisticated and, hence, more effective once it arrived. In this analysis, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) examines the Armys Modularity Initiative and FCS program as included in the previous Administrations 2009 plan to see if they could have met their initial goals. CBO addresses the question of whether the Armys current combat units are better able than their predecessors to respond to crises overseas. CBO also evaluates the effect that the FCS program included in the previous Administrations 2009 plan would have had on the Armys armored vehicle fleet and the combat units that it was expected to equip. In addition, CBO attempts to identify the costs through 2030 of the Armys Modularity Initiative and the FCS and related modernization programs in the previous Administrations 2009 plan. Last, the agency examines the advantages and disadvantages of several alternative plans for modernizing the Armys combat brigades, primarily focusing on units equipped with armored vehicles.


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    Titel :

    Analysis of the Army's Transformation Programs and Possible Alternatives


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2009


    Format / Umfang :

    77 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch