Technology-Based Pilot Programs Improving Future U.S. Military Reserve Forces (1999) / Chapter Skim
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METHODOLOGY Development of Candidate Pilot Programs The committee developed many concepts for candidate pilot programs intended to shed light on ways to improve the readiness and/or effectiveness of reserve components or improve their integration with active components. After refining the most promising concepts, the committee had developed 18 pilot programs.
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Several pilot programs were eliminated because they were considered to be infeasible, impractical, or intended to resolve issues of limited importance. The shortcomings identified in some early pilot programs led committee members to seek input from defense and industry experts and to improve experimental designs.
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The two pilot programs developed for these areas are summarized below; they are described more fully in the appendix to this chapter. Management of the Individual Ready Reserve By design, neither active nor reserve units are fully manned in peacetime.
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HIGHLIGHTED PILOT PROGRAMS A part of the reserve component/active component integration problem reflects cultural differences, and it is difficult to assess the ability of technology to change culture. Nevertheless, the committee decided to highlight four pilot programs that could shed light on reserve component capabilities and address some of the issues stemming from cultural differences.
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the merits of using distributed training, exercises, and battle simulations to integrate reserve component augmenters with their active counterparts. OTHER PILOT PROGRAMS The committee believes that the remaining eight pilot programs also merit consideration.
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This pilot program would explore ways for evaluating new doctrine by reserve components. ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS The Statement of Task concluded with a request for the study to "identify methodologies for Department of Defense to gather data on the broadest set of opportunities for efficient total force integration after 2010." In consideration of this subtask, the committee developed a process for the continued development and expanded use of pilot programs, as well as targeted data collection and data management.
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Recognizing the importance of stability to unit effectiveness, some committee members tried to develop pilot programs to improve the stability of important units, such as tank crews. According to anecdotal reports, some small reserve component units have not been stable because individuals tend to leave to take advantage of opportunities for promotion elsewhere.
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The Individual Ready Reserve is not as effective as it could be because of the difficulties and time required to match supply with demand. Although each military service maintains databases with the names, grades, and skills of the members of its Individual Ready Reserve, there is no system that can rapidly correlate TECHNOLOGY-BASED PILOT PROGRAMS this information with shortages of personnel in deploy ing units.
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If this pilot program is successful, the new technology might be expanded to cover all sources of pretrained individuals for both active and reserve component units. Experiments The experiments would demonstrate how long it would take to determine the demand and then supply the required fillers.
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Implications The results of the three experiments in this pilot program should provide enough data for the services to determine whether to retain the current system for filling mobilizing units, install a weekly matching system, adopt a quarterly preassignment system, or try another system. RESERVE COMPONENT AUTOMATION SYSTEM Objective.
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With congressional approval, the Reserve Component Automation System might also serve as all or part of a "go-to-war" system for the Army National Guard and Army Reserve. A pilot program could demonstrate the feasibility of integration and determine if the tangible benefits would exceed the cost of the modifications.
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TECHNOLOGY-BASED PILOT PROGRAMS Question 1. Can the Reserve Component Automation System software be modified to operate on Army wartime computers?
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This experiment would determine if the Reserve Component Automation System computers and the integrated peacetime and wartime software suite could be linked to the operational systems of active forces so that mobilized reserve component units would be integrated into the total Army systems without having to get active-force computers and having to learn to operate active-force systems. Question.
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· Extent to which a wartime Reserve Component Automation System improves the ability of reserve component commanders and staffs to perform their wartime missions. Implications The results of this pilot program would provide a basis for assessing the potential of the Reserve Component Automation System to provide wartime support.
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