New Approaches to Planning for Emerging Long Term Threats. Volume 1. Text

Abstract

The briefing summarizes the findings of a quick-response IDA study of new approaches to planning for emerging long term threats. The study was motivated by concern that with the end of the cold war, challenges to U.S. security may be changing in ways that current U.S. military capabilities are ill-suited to meet -- and that the nature of the defense planning problem may be changing in ways that the existing PPBS system is ill-suited to meet. In particular, the combination of slower modernization rates (which means longer- term implications for current program decisions) and a rapidly changing threat environment have made longer range planning both more important and more difficult. Given this, IDA developed an analytical approach for conducting longer term planning under such conditions, and provided a proof of principle for that approach via a series of illustrative analyses.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA276732

Entities

People

  • John C. F. Tillson
  • Julia L. Klare
  • Robert A. Zirkle
  • Stephen D. Biddle

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Combat Areas
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Military Organizations
  • Moving Target Indicator Radar
  • National Security
  • Tilt Rotor Aircraft
  • Treaties
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Effects

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Economics