Analyzing the Adequacy of Readiness Spending
Abstract
We developed two tools for analyzing the readiness of proposed future defense programs. The first tool, used for our funding benchmark analysis, compares future readiness funding with past funding in years in which readiness was high, taking changes in force size into account. The second tool, used for our readiness prediction analysis, estimates the effects of proposed readiness funding on future readiness levels. For the funding benchmark analysis, we measured readiness spending and force size and related variations in one to variations in the other. One approach to our readiness prediction analysis drew on the benchmarking analysis; another approach directly related SORTS ratings to mission-related readiness spending and force size. We found that mission-related spending varied in rough proportion to force size during the high-readiness period of 1984-97; mission-support and other spending were not quite as sensitive to changes in force size; readiness spending during the "hollow-force period" of 1975-80 was far below the levels after 1984; and force readiness is significantly related to mission-related spending.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA375369
Entities
People
- Maria Borga
- Stanley A. Horowitz
Organizations
- Institute for Defense Analyses