Thirty Year Plans: What They Are and Why We Need Them

Abstract

Army leadership constantly must make decisions related to prioritizing funding, scheduling and materiel acquisition; and these decisions are becoming more complex given the current and projected fiscal challenges. Second- and third-order effects of decisions become increasingly important, and these plans were intended to provide insight into those effects. In parallel, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army G8 initiated development of the modernization plans for existing equipment known as LIRA, or Long-Range Investment Requirements Analysis. These plans were meant to answer the question how much of tomorrows dollars are we committing by spending dollars today? "Subsequently, the Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) and its subordinate centers and laboratories, under direction of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology, developed 30-year roadmaps linking their technology initiatives to capability gaps and known programs of record. Again, the purpose of these plans was to support fact-based decisions by providing a longer range look at the consequences and effects of those decisions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2014
Accession Number
AD1016111

Entities

People

  • Vince Matrisciano

Organizations

  • Picatinny Arsenal

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Army Procurement
  • Engineering
  • Executives
  • Leadership
  • Life Cycle Costs
  • Life Cycles
  • Management Planning And Control
  • Military Acquisition
  • Monitoring
  • Program Management
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Standards

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.