Marine Aviation for the Coming Century

Abstract

In closing, my thoughts on modernizing Marine Corps' aviation forces for the coming century can be summarized as follows: We are planning for small levels of real growth less than one percent in the defense topline, and this will in turn put great pressure on us to do more with less. We are about to launch a Quadrennial Defense Review to take a comprehensive look at the Department's Strategy, Force Structure, Modernization, Infrastructure, and Readiness to meet future mission requirements I do not expect large reductions in force structure to emerge from this review, instead I see the need for more cuts in the infrastructure "tail" and outsourcing of non core functions; and The Department is committed to modernizing Marine aviation forces in general and to proceeding with the Joint Strike Fighter in particular - the JSF concept is the right solution for affordably modernizing our fixed wing strike platforms, and it is breaking new ground on increasing systems commonality; reducing life cycle cost; and shrinking the logistics footprint of deployed forces.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 09, 1996
Accession Number
ADA340088

Entities

Organizations

  • Office Of The Under Secretary Of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Assembly Lines
  • Federal Budgets
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Force Structure
  • Infrastructure
  • Investments
  • Life Cycle Costs
  • Life Cycles
  • Logistics
  • Military Budgets
  • National Security
  • Procurement
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.