Reducing the Logistics Burden for the Army After Next Doing More with Less (1999) / Chapter Skim
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10 Investment Strategy for Research and Technology Development
10 Investment Strategy for Research and Technology Development
Pages 137-158
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technology and summarizes the target areas for research and technology development discussed in Chapters 3 through 9. Each of the target areas is related to reduction goals for specific logistics burdens and to associated road map objectives for AAN research and technology development.
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This amount represents 40 percent of federal spending for basic research and includes more than 70 percent of all federal investment in microelectronics and electrical engineering (Signal, ~ 997~.
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ARMY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM Army and DoD S&T programs include basic research (budget line item 6.1) , which increases scientific understanding, applied research (budget line item 6.2)
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. Strategic Research Objectives and AAN Situational Awareness Based on the critical role of the technologies for enabling the near-perfect SA required to achieve "one-round, one-target" lethality for the ANN, as well as other operational efficiencies, including terrain awareness, operational energy management, and just-right logistics support, the committee believes that the current SROs in nanoscience, mobile wireless communications, intelligent systems, and compact power have the potential to support logistics burden reduction.
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systems that can sense, analyze, ream, adapt, and function In changing hostile environments Compact Power Sources. improved batteries and fuel cells, as well as the identification of new concepts relating to energy density, operating characteristics, reliability, and safety of portable power (DA, 1997c)
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However, the committee was asked to address technologies to reduce the logistics demands of AAN systems, not technologies to improve logistics operations. Fuel economy and system reliability are important objectives for reducing logistics burdens, but the committee's analysis shows that they should be considered broad performance objectives of an entire system, and should be designed into AAN systems at every level of subsystem and component analysis (see Chapters 4 and 7)
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This section describes areas of research and technology development that the committee recommends for investment because of their importance for reducing logistics support requirements for AAN systems. Road Map Objectives The committee derived road map objectives based on the burden reduction goals discussed in Chapter 2 from the technology assessments presented in Chapters 3 through 9.
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This capability is critical for weighing all of the requirements for reducing logistics burdens against one another, as well as for weighing the larder coal of logistics burden reduction against other AAN performance goals and .
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will vary, depending on the application area in which logistics burdens must be analyzed to optimize burden reduction and other performance goals. For example, Chapter 4 argues for an environment in which energy supply and distribution logistics can be effectively simulated, along with details of the AAN operational concepts that determine the "when, where, and how much" of energy demands.
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The Army should promote and support the development of information resources to help system designers obtain data on alternative materials. The substitution of lightweight materials that also offer improved reliability or other performance advantages over more conventional choices is an area of broad applicability for reducing logistics burdens.
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candidates for providing tactical mobility for an entire AAN battle force that can maneuver in three dimensions at five times the speed of current ground combat vehicles, and use less fuel. To meet these requirements, the Army will have to find novel, nonconventional air mobility concepts.
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Mobility Systems Designing and fielding AAN combat vehicles that incorporate highly efficient energy management while meeting other performance requirements will require thorough evaluations of the vehicle as a system from the concept design forward. Although some technologies, such as hybrid drive vehicles, have been widely accepted in the Army community as increasing vehicle fuel economy, the committee believes that total system evaluations shad!
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All vehicle procurements should include a clear, unequivocal, and easily measurable limit on vehicle fuel consumption. Terrain Awareness Terrain awareness, like SA generally, is very important to meeting performance goals other than in logistics supportability.
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of this objective is intended to remind the Army that the logistics trade-off analyses for any system should include all logistical considerations. Comparisons of alternative systems with respect to logistics burdens and performance characteristics including logistics should address all of the relevant burdens.
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SA and precision guidance have the most potential to reduce the ammunition logistics burden of all technology applications assessed by the committee. Technology Development Areas There is considerable overlap in the technology development and research areas that would contribute to meeting the road map objectives of SA and precision guidance.
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The factors related to reducing logistics burdens should be assessed along with lethality performance characteristics in the context of clearly identified AAN lethality requirements. The committee found no obvious winners among the potential alternatives for major weapon-systems, such as the main armament of AAN "front line" combat vehicles or the fire support systems that might be integral elements of a battle force.
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The committee identified two technology development areas as critical for designing systems for reliability. First, the distributed M&S environments used to support system design and logistics trade-off analysis should be extended to provide the following five elements, which are not included in current M&S tools used by the Army: · models that represent the system properties and environmental conditions that affect AAN mission reliability requirements · measurable reliability-related requirements for models at every level in the M&S hierarchy iterative simulations up and down the hierarchy of models in the design and .
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Compact Power Personal power sources for the dismounted soldier is a major logistics concern, not because of the tonnage involved but because the effectiveness of individual soldiers is a combat necessity. For meeting this objective, the committee supports the recommendations on research areas and relevant technologies of an in-depth NRC study of energy-efficient technologies for the dismounted soldier (NRC, 1 997a)
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AAN Logistics Trade-off Analyses across Burden Reduction Goals This report has repeatedly emphasized that burden reduction goals should not be pursued in isolation from other performance objectives, and vice versa. It is equally true that any burden reduction goal cannot be pursued in isolation from other logistics burdens that affect the perfonnance profile of a system.
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The basic technologies that underlie these planned advances in logistics operations overlap considerably with the technologies that will enable the SA required to support precision guidance terrain awareness, and many other AAN performance objectives that this report does address. Furthermore, many of the same issues related to the supportability and robustness of military C4ISR systems have significant implications for logistics operations.
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