Enhancing Programmatic Analysis Tools for the 21st Century Defense Transportation System.

Abstract

Since the early 1990s, the Army's overseas presence has been dramatically reduced and its reliance on the Defense - Transportation System (DTS) to effectively and efficiently project power has correspondingly increased. As a result, a significant portion of the Army and the overall Department of Defense (DOD) budgets continues to be allocated to the military and commercial components of the DTS. However, neither the Army nor its partners in the joint transportation community are currently able to provide DOD's strategic leaders with the detailed benefit/cost data required to make the types of investment decisions common in the corporate world. This study presents three actions that would lead to the development and effective employment of a more comprehensive, holistic, and integrated set of cost-based deployment modeling tools--tools that could guide programmatic transportation decisions well into the 21st Century.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 29, 1999
Accession Number
ADA364150

Entities

People

  • Peter S. Lennon

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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  • Aircrafts
  • Budgets
  • Business Administration
  • Computer Programming
  • Contracts
  • Cost Analysis
  • Databases
  • Economic Analysis
  • Employment
  • Force Structure
  • Information Systems
  • Infrastructure
  • Investments
  • Personnel Management
  • Procurement
  • United States
  • War Colleges

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Economics
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis