DoD's Mobility Requirements; Value of Intratheater Lift Analyses Can Be Enhanced
Abstract
The purpose of the Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm highlighted the need to quickly deliver combat forces and their support to theaters of operation other than Europe. To ensure that a sufficient amount of mobility assets would be available to support contingencies in the post-Cold War environment, Congress directed the Department of Defense (DOD) in fiscal year 1991 to assess both intratheater (from one theater of operations to another) and intratheater (within the same theater of operations) lift requirements and develop an integrated plan to meet them. In its 1992 Mobility Requirements Study and 1995 Mobility Requirements Study Bottom-Up Review Update, DOD addressed the intratheater portion of the directive. According to Joint Staff officials, the 1996 Intratheater lift Analysis addressed the intratheater portion of the directive. DOD is planning to update this analysis as part of its 1999 Mobility Requirements Study. Army officials told us that DOD plans to spend $1.7 billion through fiscal year 2003 to implement the Army's tactical wheeled vehicle acquisition plan, as recommended in the Intratheater lift Analysis. If the airlift recommendations in the analysis were implemented as well, another approximately $2.7 billion (fiscal year 1996 dollars) could be spent. Because these recommendations are intended to serve as a basis for proposed intratheater lift acquisitions, the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services requested that GAO report on the results of the 1996 Intratheater lift Analysis. Specifically, GAO determined whether (1) the analysis and recommendations in the study were appropriately linked, (2) the study considered all options in meeting the requirements for various lift assets, and (3) improvements could enhance the study's value as a decision making tool.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 30, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA336535
Entities
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office