Concept for Contingency Force Advanced Warfighting Experiment.
Abstract
U.S. National Security Strategy documents support the need for digitization and modernization of rapidly deployable contingency forces. Joint Vision 2010 and Army Vision 2010 describe the capabilities required by contingency forces to achieve the objectives of U.S. strategy. TRADOC Army XXI concepts and the Army After Next study describe the required future operational capabilities needed for increasingly lethal, survivable, and deployable contingency forces. Despite this, the focus of Army experimentation and digitization to date has been on the heavy divisions which are and will continue to be the least deployable units in the Army force structure. The Army's contingency divisions are behind in scheduling and funding to achieve the Army XXI capabilities already planned for the heavy force. To alleviate this problem, TRADOC has supported the development of a Contingency Force Advanced Warfighting Experiment (AWE) in Fiscal Year 2000. Such an AWE would provide a focus for contingency forces evolution through Army XXI to Army After Next. It would also make available to these forces a limited number of advanced technologies to accelerate the process of digitizing and modernizing these units.. TRADOC's proposal should now be refined into a concept and plan that can be scheduled and funded. A Contingency Force AWE is the best near term opportunity to achieve the capabilities required by the National Security Strategy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 14, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA345634
Entities
People
- Daniel J. Bourgoine
Organizations
- United States Army War College