Resourcing the Force: What is Funded Versus Actually Received

Abstract

Resourcing the force must be accomplished with finite funds. It is imperative that the resources are allocated to the most critical priorities at levels commensurate with mission needs. The current resource management process generates a budget from data developed five to seven years earlier, filtered through strategic readiness guidance and updated to reflect current guidance in a biennial cycle. While this process is rigorous and sufficient to ensure program allocation does not exceed fund availability, resources are balanced successfully, and Congress is provided a review of efforts to measure programming performance, it is a top-down zero-sum budgeting approach more adaptive to meeting the needs of the leadership than the end users. Its results focus more up than down and therefore, do not necessarily ensure funding is always at minimum levels for the most critical priorities. This paper reviews the inputs, outputs, and outcomes of this process to determine if it results in an allocation of resources that actually provides what the troops need and what the Department of the Army intends.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 25, 2008
Accession Number
ADA479584

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  • Regina R. Adams

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  • United States Army War College

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  • Acquisition
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  • Business Administration
  • Combatant Commanders
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  • Department Of Defense
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  • Financial Management
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  • National Security
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  • Resource Management
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  • Strategic Security Studies