Technology-Based Pilot Programs Improving Future U.S. Military Reserve Forces (1999) / Chapter Skim
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5 Descriptions of High Priority and Highlighted Pilot Programs
5 Descriptions of High Priority and Highlighted Pilot Programs
Pages 43-59
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In the event the Department of Defense decides to conduct any of these programs, a specific plan for implementation will have to be defined and specific responsibilities assigned for various aspects of each pilot program. HIGH-PRIORITY PILOT PROGRAMS Increased Training Time through Technology Objective.
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The target groups of the program would be: junior enlisted personnel who have just completed initial training and are trying to qualify in job-specific skills at the next level; reservists who have qualified in a skill at entry level but need to take lengthy courses to qualify for more advanced skill levels; and members of the Individual Ready Reserve who want to continue training in their skills or learn different skills that are in short supply in their services. Experiments There would be three experiments in this pilot program.
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. How many days did it take for each reservist to qualify for an entry-level skill code after leaving initial entry training?
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Implications Because reserve components are part time and have limited training, increasing their training time can only have a beneficial effect. If the experiments of this pilot program are successful, distance learning could be used to provide better, more timely training for reservists.
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The experiment would involve Army and Marine Corps reserve component units responsible for maintenance of trucks, other wheeled vehicles, or heavy equipment and Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force reserve component units responsible for maintenance of H1 or H60 helicopters. The Navy has funds to provide the H1 maintenance data in a format that could be used with advanced distributed-learning equipment.
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This experiment would also involve a few reserve component units responsible for the maintenance of trucks, other wheeled vehicles, heavy TECHNOLOGY-BASED PILOT PROGRAMS equipment, or aircraft. All participating units would be responsible for maintaining the same equipment (e.g., the family of medium tactical wheeled vehicles in the Army and Marine Corps and the H1 helicopter)
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Implications This pilot program would demonstrate the effect of advanced distributed learning on the capability of reserve component maintenance technicians to maintain equipment at a high level of readiness. The program would also show how formal training with advanced distributed tools would affect the ability of reserve component technicians to deal with unfamiliar equipment.
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that could benefit from participation in this experiment. This description is phrased in terms of brigades, parent TECHNOLOGY-BASED PILOT PROGRAMS division headquarters, and the major Army command responsible for delivering mobilized reserve component units to regional commanders.
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The mobilization station for this company would have to also be equipped with Reserve Component Automation System computers or compatible equipment and software. A third test company would be mobilized with the help of a centralized mobilization assistance unit assigned to its mobilization station.
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These kinds of risks, and hedges against them, are topics that should be addressed by active components as well as reserve components. The Department of Defense might or might not choose to address them as part of the experiments in this pilot program.
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What would the effect of using remote staffing for specific functions be on reserve components? · Estimate the effectiveness of using reserve components as members of remote staffs.
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JANUS is a series of land-combat models with limited air and naval operations, primarily sponsored by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Army's Training and Doctrine Command. TECHNOLOGY-BASED PILOT PROGRAMS Description This pilot program would involve an experiment to compare the performance of the battle staffs of two battalions of the same brigade of an Army National Guard combat maneuver unit in a JANUS-assisted command-post exercise.
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Description Information and simulation technology could be used to create a pilot program for active Army units and Army National Guard units to establish unit competitions based on missions, mission-essential task lists, or specified types of units. The competitions would probably be most useful in areas where combat crews (e.g., attack-helicopter crews)
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Reserve Peacekeeping Baffle Laboratory Objective. Determine how reserve component units now being used extensively for "operations other than TECHNOLOGY-BASED PILOT PROGRAMS war" can be better trained and better integrated with the active components.
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a six-month miniprogram operated with a skeleton staff. Both the Army National Guard and Army Reserve components should be offered the opportunity of sharing responsibility with active components for the pilot program.
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The second phase of this pilot program would address alternative times for augmentation and their relation to critical events. If the first two phases are successful, a third phase would experiment with applications of distributed learning, exercises, and simulations to determine how reserve component personnel, teams, and units might be used to augment their active component counterparts effectively.
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Implications This pilot program could provide the Army with a viable means of extending continuous operation to preserve critical initial momentum. This pilot program could produce a template for a range of augmentation possibilities, as well as the types of preparation, training, and theater-orientation necessary for augmentation personnel.
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