Technology-Based Pilot Programs Improving Future U.S. Military Reserve Forces (1999) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B Descriptions of Other Pilot Programs
Appendix B Descriptions of Other Pilot Programs
Pages 70-82
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The Army Reserves should probably undertake the civil affairs experiment, the Army National Guard the military police experiment, and the Army Research Laboratory the assessment of the results of the overall program. Distance learning could be used to prepare both the cadre and volunteer augmenters for their .
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Determine if part-time Army National Guard units that are not co-located with full-time National Guard teams assigned to the weapons-ofmass-destruction defense missions could improve the efficiency of full-time teams by providing on-site assessments of incidents. Problem Under the current response plan, a network of 10 National Guard teams, each manned with 22 fulltime personnel, would be quickly deployed to emergency areas in the United States in the event of an incident involving weapons of mass destruction.
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TECHNOLOGY-BASED PILOT PROGRAMS Involving local specialists in a National Guard mission on a part-time basis could enable the National Guard to retain qualified personnel and increase public support for and confidence in the National Guard as a whole. Maintaining a high state of training and readiness with part-time personnel who use their skills in their day-today employment might be easier than trying to maintain the same level of readiness with full-time personnel who might use these skills only in response to a real incident.
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Implications This pilot program could shed light on whether expert information technologists organized in different 73 ways could support active forces engaged overseas. A subsequent experiment could evaluate incentives for attracting information experts into the reserve components or civilian organizations.
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TECHNOLOGY-BASED PILOT PROGRAMS Experiment I Objective. Demonstrate how the use of unmanned aerial vehicles could increase the effectiveness of homeland defense by reserve components.
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75 Experiment 3 O bjective. Demonstrate how using unmanned aerial vehicles could improve the effectiveness and integration of reserve components with the active components in wartime.
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The reserve component personnel would require superb technical skills in computers, communications, and sensors, as well as operational experience as Air Force or Navy pilots; if ground-based unmanned combat vehicles are included, reserve component personnel would require Army experience. Reserve personnel would be teamed with others involved in prior experiments, as well as with members of the active components and members of the research and development community who are working on advanced systems.
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Objective. Test ways to get Army National Guard combat units to the scene of battle quickly enough to be of use to the total force.
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· Obtain effectiveness scores for brigades or divisions with and without the Guard unit. Implications If successful, this program could shed light on ways to get the larger, more complex Army National Guard combat units to the battle quickly.
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allies with better information, but it would also demonstrate the capabilities of National Guard units in early entry combat. The pilot program would not have been possible without the Comanche's new technologies, including a comparatively low-observable design, enabling intelligence to be gathered in ways that were not possible before.
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A pilot program would be undertaken in stages In conjunction with the Joint Experimentation Master Plan recently drafted by the Atlantic Command. The initial stages would focus on defining organizational and operational options using distributed interactive simulations rather than field exercises.
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Implications The costs associated with this pilot program would be that some reserve components would systematically deviate from the training and readiness standards set by and for the active-duty forces. In the event of a national mobilization and a reserve component call up, units involved in the pilot program would probably start from a lower readiness status and face a more severe challenge than other reserve components in meeting active-force combat-readiness standards.
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The game focuses on the effects of differences in battle-space awareness, TECHNOLOGY-BASED PILOT PROGRAMS concentrating on how players react to those differences. Players can test operations and organizations to find the ones that enable them to take most advantage of a significant edge in battle-space awareness or to counter an opponent's edge.
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