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Technology-Based Pilot Programs: Improving Future U.S. Military Reserve Forces
Box 4-1Overview of Pilot Programs
Areas for Immediate Action
Management of the Individual Ready Reserve
Reserve Component Automation System
High-Priority Pilot Programs
Increased Training Time through Technology
Advanced Distributed-Learning Technology for Maintenance Personnel
Reserve component Participation in the Aftermath of Incidents Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction
Information Technologists in the Total Force
Unmanned Vehicles
Biosensors
Total Force for the Twenty-First Century
Helicopter Unit Interfaces with Allies
Test-Bed for Active Force Transformation
program and the second relating to the chances of successfully conducting the pilot program.
The first group of criteria includes (1) scope of impact (breadth), (2) magnitude of impact (depth), and (3) Department of Defense's ability to change. These criteria involve the anticipated effect on defense capability of a policy change based on the results of a pilot program. The impact is measured both by the scope (number of units [or people] affected) and the magnitude (the amount of change in a typical unit [or in Department of Defense readiness and budgets]) of the change, as well as the Department of Defense's ability to make these changes. A successful pilot program would be useless if resultant changes could not be implemented.
The second group of criteria relates to the expectation of performing a pilot program successfully. The criteria are (4) the credibility of the results, (5) the technical feasibility of conducting the pilot program, and (6) the administrative feasibility of conducting the pilot program.
Scope of Impact (Breadth)
How many units or people would be affected? Would they be in one or all services, in the active components only, in the reserve components only, or in both? How many skills or occupational specialties would be affected? A few? Many? All? Are they critical skills?
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