Force Structure: Army Needs to Provide DoD and Congress More Visibility Regarding Modular Force Capabilities and Implementation Plans
Abstract
The Army is making progress in creating active and National Guard modular combat brigades while fully engaged in ongoing operations, but it is not meeting its equipping goals for active brigades and has not completed development of an equipping strategy for its new force rotation model. This raises uncertainty about the levels to which the modular brigades will be equipped both in the near and longer term as well as the ultimate equipping cost. The Army plans to employ a force rotation model in which units nearing deployment would receive required levels of equipment while nondeploying units would be maintained at lower readiness levels. However, because the Army has not completed key details of the equipping strategy such as defining the specific equipping requirements for units in various phases of its force rotation modelit is unclear what level of equipment units will have, how this strategy may affect the Armys equipment funding plans, and how well units with low priority for equipment will be able to respond to unforeseen crises.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 06, 2006
- Accession Number
- AD1153645
Entities
People
- Janet A. St. Laurent
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office