The Department of Defense's Readiness Posture

The Department of Defense's Readiness Posture
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2017-09-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781976484629

The Department of Defense's readiness posture : hearing before the Subcommittee on Readiness of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, hearing held April 10, 2014.

Are We Ready?

Are We Ready?
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Readiness
Publisher:
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN:

Strengthening Data Science Methods for Department of Defense Personnel and Readiness Missions

Strengthening Data Science Methods for Department of Defense Personnel and Readiness Missions
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2017-03-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0309450780

The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel & Readiness), referred to throughout this report as P&R, is responsible for the total force management of all Department of Defense (DoD) components including the recruitment, readiness, and retention of personnel. Its work and policies are supported by a number of organizations both within DoD, including the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), and externally, including the federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) that work for DoD. P&R must be able to answer questions for the Secretary of Defense such as how to recruit people with an aptitude for and interest in various specialties and along particular career tracks and how to assess on an ongoing basis service members' career satisfaction and their ability to meet new challenges. P&R must also address larger-scale questions, such as how the current realignment of forces to the Asia-Pacific area and other regions will affect recruitment, readiness, and retention. While DoD makes use of large-scale data and mathematical analysis in intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and elsewhereâ€"exploiting techniques such as complex network analysis, machine learning, streaming social media analysis, and anomaly detectionâ€"these skills and capabilities have not been applied as well to the personnel and readiness enterprise. Strengthening Data Science Methods for Department of Defense Personnel and Readiness Missions offers and roadmap and implementation plan for the integration of data analysis in support of decisions within the purview of P&R.

Military Readiness

Military Readiness
Author: Richard K. Betts
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0815717075

Throughout most of American history, U.S. military forces proved unready for the wars that were thrust upon them and suffered costly reverses in early battles. During the Cold War, for the first time, U.S. defense policy tried to maintain high readiness in peacetime. But now, with the Cold War over and defense budgets falling, what will happen to U.S. military forces? Will they revert to a state of unpreparedness or find a new balance? Politicians and military planners alike have found this crucial issue especially difficult to deal with because they have often misunderstood what readiness really means. In this book, security expert Richard Betts surveys problems in developing and measuring combat readiness before, during, and after the Cold War. He analyzes why attempts to maximize it often have counterproductive effects, and how confusions in technical concepts cause political controversy. The book explores conflicts between two objectives that are both vital but work against each other because they compete for resources: operational readiness to fight immediately, and structural readiness—the number of organized units that increase military power, but require time during a crisis to gear up for combat. Betts also discusses the problem brought on by the Cold War and plunging defense budgets: mobilization readiness—the plans and arrangements needed to shorten the time for recreating a large military if it once again becomes necessary. Betts offers new ideas for understanding the dilemmas and tradeoffs that underlie debates on how readiness should be maintained in peacetime, and he explores the strategic consequences of different choices.

Managing Military Readiness

Managing Military Readiness
Author: Institute for National Strategic Studies (U.S.)
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2017
Genre: National security
ISBN: 9780160937590

"This paper presents an analytic framework that builds from previous work to yield the systematic and defendable readiness analysis that must underlie decisions ranging from budget allocation to force employment and even strategy development. To manage readiness, the Department of Defense must balance the supply and demand of deployable forces around the world. The readiness of an individual unit is the result of a series of time-intensive force generation processes that ultimately combine qualified people, working equipment, and unit training to produce military capabilities suitable for executing the defense strategy. While this discussion is a basic tenet of production theory, it had not been commonly applied to readiness management until recently. The important point here is that understanding how the readiness of military capabilities is generated provides the clearest picture of the current readiness status and whether that status is likely to change over time. Furthermore, it provides the best shot at identifying effective management policies to ensure that DOD can generate the capabilities that the Nation asks of it. This paper argues that traditional unit-level readiness metrics are useful as part of a larger readiness management construct, but by themselves they do not provide enough information to proactively manage strategically. This approach provides a clear explanation of the causes of readiness degradations and options for how to mitigate them that can be traced to precise resource investments"--Page 1.

Military Readiness

Military Readiness
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1998
Genre: Military readiness
ISBN:

Military Readiness

Military Readiness
Author: Mark E. Gebicke
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 62
Release: 1999-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780788179693

For more than a decade, various audit and oversight organizations have questioned the thoroughness and reliability of the DoD reports on the readiness of U.S. military forces. This report reviews the DoDs efforts to improve its readiness assessment and reporting process. Specifically, it assesses whether (1) DoD plans to make improvements in its unit readiness database, including adding specific readiness indicators; (2) a monthly review process instituted by the Joint Staff has improved DoDs ability to assess readiness; and (3) DoDs quarterly readiness reports to Congress accurately reflect readiness information briefed to DoD officials.

Military Readiness

Military Readiness
Author: William M. Solis
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2006-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781422304440