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Defense Secretary Ashton Carter discusses efforts to modernize the military at a the Defense One Tech Summit in Washington, DC
Topics: Defense Secretary Ashton Carter Discusses Military Modernization, Television Program
Source: Comcast Cable
In 2013, just as U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Raymond Odierno was articulating a particular vision for expeditionary operations, the French Army was fielding a force in Mali that in many ways provided a real-world example of the kind of operations Odierno envisioned. France fielded a relatively small force put together using small, scalable combined arms task-organized units as basic building blocks and conducted a campaign that emphasized speed and maneuver over force protection. The...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND ARROYO CENTER SANTA MONICA CA, *ARMY OPERATIONS, FRANCE, MILITARY MODERNIZATION,...
This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study, which was prepared for the Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces of the House Committee on Armed Services, examines the issue of how much bandwidth will be required to achieve the goal of digitization (the bandwidth demand) versus how much bandwidth will be provided by the Armys planned communications programs (the bandwidth supply). CBO finds that significant shortfalls currently exist for the Army in the supply of bandwidth. Moreover, under...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Rehmus,Paul, Congressional Budget Office Washington United States, MILITARY...
After more than a decade of conflict, the United States is drawing down defense spending. The Defense Department must cope with declining resources at a time when it also faces persistent global threats and is under pressure to modernize aging systems to deter future competitors. Faced with declining defense budgets, aging weapon systems, and growing personnel costs, the Department of Defense (DoD) must avoid austerity measures that result in a hollow force and focus on how to maintain and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP BETHESDA MD, *MILITARY BUDGETS, DEFENSE SYSTEMS, DETERRENCE,...
The Army's current efforts to transform and modernize its aviation assets began in 1999, seeking to maintain and improve the warfighting capabilities of the existing force as well as to invest in science and technology in a way that improved the future force. To accomplish these goals, the Army focused on upgrading and modernizing existing equipment, rapidly fielding new equipment, incorporating new technologies as they became available, and restructuring aviation warfighting units. Initially,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC, *MILITARY MODERNIZATION, ACQUISITION,...
Presentation given at the 2001 Joint Services Small Arms Symposium, 13-16 August 2001, sponsored by the National Defense Industrial Association.
Topics: DTIC Archive, BIANCHI INTERNATIONAL TEMECULA CA, *BACKPACKS, SYMPOSIA, SMALL ARMS, MILITARY...
The current (2010) National Security Strategy (NSS) states that: We will monitor China's military modernization program and prepare accordingly to ensure that U.S. interests and allies, regionally and globally, are not negatively affected. This thesis assesses a major element of that goal. As our president's NSS points out, an understanding of how the People's Liberation Army (PLA) operates is critically important to the American assessment of its own security posture in Asia. In 2005,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *CHINA, *MILITARY MODERNIZATION, LEADERSHIP,...
The United States-Republic of Korea (ROK) alliance has successfully served as a deterrent against war on the Korean peninsula for over 50 years. Recently, however, many younger Koreans, as well as many Americans, are questioning the rationale for maintaining a U.S. military force in Korea. This research project analyzes the strategic defense objectives of the ROK and the United States to answer the following question: Is U.S. Forces Korea still needed on the Korean peninsula? In answering this...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Stevens, Wayne, ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA, *NAVAL AIRCRAFT*NAVAL AIRCRAFT,...
The purpose of this study is to identify a small number of bins into which China's strategies for acquiring advanced technology, and especially military technology, can be assigned. In the context of the study, acquisition is broadly interpreted, encompassing a variety of means by which technology comes into PRC possession. It includes external as well as domestic sources of technology, purchases as well as thefts, foreign-assisted developments as well as wholly indigenous achievements, and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORP MCLEAN VA, *CHINA, *MILITARY MODERNIZATION,...
The main battle tank of the U.S. Army is under pressure due to critical scrutiny from numerous fronts questioning its relevance to the modern security environment. The M1 Abrams played a key role briefly in Operation Iraqi Freedom and rarely in Operation Enduring Freedom. Moreover, due to an apparent perception within NATO that heavy U.S. armor was no longer needed, the Army redeployed the last of the Abrams based in Europe to the United States in 2013. Elsewhere, the relevance of heavy armor...
Topics: DTIC Archive, INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA, *TANKS(COMBAT VEHICLES), MILITARY...
Military innovation has recently become an important topic in both civilian and military circles. This document, completed under IDA's Central Research Program, is meant to provide the reader with a basic understanding of some of the key issues pertaining to military innovation. The topic was researched through the collection and analysis of open source materials. Military innovation represents both a process and a product. The current debate seems to be characterized by miscommunication;...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Gleeson, Dennis J., Jr., INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA, *MILITARY...
As fiscal constraints increasingly shape Navy shipbuilding plans, the pressure to increase efficiency mounts. Modernizing facilities and equipment at shipyards that build Navy ships can lead to improved efficiency, ultimately reducing the cost of constructing ships. In response to a request from the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, GAO (1) identified investments in facilities and equipment at privately-owned shipyards over the last 10 years; (2) determined the Navy's role in...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC, *SHIPYARDS, *MILITARY MODERNIZATION,...
Since 2002, Mongolia's commitment to international peace-support operations has dramatically increased and broadened the country's bilateral and multilateral military engagement throughout the world. By participating in UN peacekeeping and other peace-support operations, Mongolia and its military have gained tremendous experience, learned valuable lessons, and identified challenges in several critical areas that needed improvement. This thesis argues that Mongolias commitment to international...
Topics: Mongolia, national security, third neighbors policy, multilateral policy, peace support operation,...
Reviews the role and importance of junior officers and enlisted in developing innovations to overcome problems and constraints in war.
Topics: DTIC Archive, NAVAL WARFARE DEVELOPMENT COMMAND NORFOLK VA, *LEADERSHIP, ENLISTED PERSONNEL,...
Presentation given at the 2001 Joint Services Small Arms Symposium, 13-16 August 2001, sponsored by the National Defense Industrial Association.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Bridge, Donald, *SMALL ARMS, AIR FORCE, SYMPOSIA, SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION, WEAPON...
China’s sustained modernization effort across the branches of the PLA over the past 25 years has produced several innovations. Among them, in 2008, the U.S. Office of the Secretary Defense (OSD) in its annual report to Congress on China’s military power mentioned for the first time a new Chinese military concept called the “three warfares.” However, this and subsequent reports have offered little elaboration of the meaning and substance of the term. This thesis seeks to fill a gap in...
Topics: CHINA, PLA, THREE WARFARES, INFORMATION WARFARE, INFORMATION OPERATIONS, MILITARY MODERNIZATION,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, National Defense Industrial Association Arlington United States, combat VEHICLES,...
This report was prepared for two RAND projects: 'Alternative NATO futures,' sponsored by the U.S. Army's Training and Doctrine Command, and 'Enhancing the Allied Contribution to Tactical Airpower in NATO's Central Region,' sponsored by the U.S. Air Force's Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Operations. The report compares the financial requirements of modernizing British military forces with a range of budgetary resources both with and in the absence of negotiated conventional force reductions...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Nation, Joseph E, RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA, *MILITARY MODERNIZATION, NATO, MILITARY...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Roxborough, Ian, NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC, *MILITARY OPERATIONS,...
The Task Force was charged to examine the use of red teams in the Department of Defense and recommend ways that such teams could be of greater value to the department. Our Terms of Reference and task force membership are provided in Appendices 1 and 2. Our usage of the term red team includes not only playing adversaries or competitors, but also serving as devil's advocates, offering alternative interpretations (team B) and otherwise challenging established thinking within an enterprise. We...
Topics: DTIC Archive, DEFENSE SCIENCE BOARD WASHINGTON DC, *MANAGEMENT, *MILITARY CAPABILITIES, DEPARTMENT...
In March 2014, as part of the President s Budget for Fiscal Year 2015, the Navy proposed a Phased Modernization Plan that included placing 11 Ticonderoga-class cruisers (large surface combatants) and three dock-landing ships (amphibious ships) into a phased modernization and maintenance period to reduce near-term funding requirements and as a means to extend the life of the ships. House Report 113-446 accompanying the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 included a provision...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC, *MILITARY MODERNIZATION, *NAVAL...
The Navy has begun a program modernize its 84 existing Aegis cruisers and destroyers over a period of more than 20 years. The program's estimated total cost is about $16.6 billion in constant FY2010 dollars. The Navy's proposed FY2010 budget requests $674.8 million in funding for Aegis ship modernization. The modernizations are intended to ensure that the ships can be operated cost-effectively throughout their entire 35-year intended service lives. The program poses several potential oversight...
Topics: DTIC Archive, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE, *MILITARY...
Once again, as in Fuller's day, these are disorienting times for soldiers. Recent events have torn history from its moorings, sweeping aside the constants that have defined our world since 1945. The usual hucksters grope about -- to little avail thus far -- to explain the implications of titanic changes now under way. Amidst the prognostications of self-anointed seers, Fuller's quaint metaphor provides as good an azimuth as any: the old rules no longer pertain; woe be to those who fail to take...
Topics: DTIC Archive, ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA, *WARFARE, *MILITARY MODERNIZATION, *MILITARY...
The overall audit objective was to evaluate the contracting practices that the tank automotive and Armament Command used in the upgrade program for M113A3 Armored Personnel Carrier.
Topics: DTIC Archive, INSPECTOR GENERAL DEPT OF DEFENSE ARLINGTON VA, *CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION, *AUDITING,...
Whatever military strategy the United States pursues now should account for changes that will reshape the security environment in Asia down the road. In the future, for example, China and the region as a whole will face demographic, environmental, technological, and economic changes. China s strong economy and sustained investment in military modernization will be the most powerful disruptive influences in the future security environment in the Western Pacific. While the United States will...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND ARROYO CENTER SANTA MONICA CA, *MILITARY STRATEGY, CHINA, INTERNATIONAL...
China is building a modern and regionally powerful Navy with a modest but growing capability for conducting operations beyond China s near-seas region. The question of how the United States should respond to China s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, has emerged as a key issue in U.S. defense planning. The question is of particular importance to the U.S. Navy, because many U.S. military programs for countering improved Chinese military forces would fall...
Topics: DTIC Archive, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE, *MILITARY...
As China emerges as a major world power, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has adjusted its ideology to maintain national spirit and power. Elements of this adjustment can be seen in changes within the People's Liberation Army (PLA). As the PLA aggressively pursues a revolution in military affairs with Chinese characteristics, some have asserted the PLA's modernization and professionalization reform involves reviving values and ideals associated with Confucianism and China's traditional past....
Topics: DTIC Archive, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *MILITARY MODERNIZATION, THESES, ETHICS,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE (U S CONGRESS) WASHINGTON DC, *MILITARY MODERNIZATION,...
Starting in October 2012, the Army began to equip brigade combat teams that will deploy in 2013 with Capability Set 13. This is the Army s first package of radios, satellite systems, software applications, smartphone-like devices, and other network components that provide integrated connectivity from the static tactical operations center to the commander on the move to the dismounted soldier.
Topics: DTIC Archive, DEFENSE ACQUISITION UNIV FT BELVOIR VA, *COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS, ARMY PERSONNEL,...
The world is changing and the Army is responding to these changes and positioning itself for the challenges of the future strategic environment. The Future Force will be very different from the Army of today. New equipment technologies and tactics will require soldiers with different skill sets than those of today's soldiers. New soldiers in the Future Force will be recruited from the generation of Americans referred to as the Millennials those born in 1982 and later. How will the aptitudes and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Fraser, Kelly R, ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA, *ARMY PERSONNEL, *MILITARY...
Topics: DTIC Archive, ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF FOR INSTALLATION MANAGEMENT (ARMY) WASHINGTON DC,...
Much has been written of late regarding the advent of new information technologies, new weapons systems and platforms, and intelligence architectures offering to fuse real-time information that will achieve total battlefield awareness The excitement that these advances and the ongoing Revolution in Military Affairs bring to the military strategist is palpable While acknowledging we are on the cusp of a wondrous new technologic landscape, however, much uncertainty is expressed as to what exactly...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Jones, Teresa M, NATIONAL WAR COLL WASHINGTON DC, *MILITARY STRATEGY, *MILITARY...
The Department of Defense s Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 budget submission provides the resources necessary to protect and advance U.S. interests and to execute the updated defense strategy, although at increased levels of risk for some missions relative to the planned funding levels in the FY 2014 budget. This budget complies with the limits established for FY 2015 in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 (BBA), but over the remainder of the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP), it exceeds the estimated...
Topics: DTIC Archive, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE WASHINGTON DC, *MILITARY BUDGETS, DOCUMENTS, IMPACT,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC, *TACTICAL AIRCRAFT, LIFE EXPECTANCY(SERVICE...
In this study, we conveyed a literature review about defence transformation efforts of several armed forces. Literature review is summarized in the following topics: Transformation aspect, the need for transformation, the methods/methodology used, and activities done/will be done in the future. Following the literature review, we give some information about the lessons learned so far about transformation activities.
Topics: DTIC Archive, GAZI UNIV ANKARA (TURKEY), *LESSONS LEARNED, *MILITARY MODERNIZATION, AIR FORCE,...
This thesis applies net assessment to the Colombian Government s protracted campaign against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in order to determine proper metrics to track progress in counterinsurgency warfare. Net assessment is used to analyze potential centers of gravity to determine the correct center of gravity. Armed with the correct center of gravity, potential critical vulnerabilities are examined. Finally, once the correct critical vulnerability is identified, metrics...
Topics: DTIC Archive, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *COLOMBIA, *COUNTERINSURGENCY, METHODOLOGY,...
The Air Force s cost estimate for modernizing the F-22 aircraft s capabilities and making improvements that address the aircraft s reliability and structural problems is $11.3 billion, as of January 2014. In February 2013, the Air Force awarded a multibillion dollar contract for F-22 modernization efforts from 2013 through 2023. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 directed the Air Force to report annually on improvement efforts. GAO was asked to review F-22 modernization...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC, *FIGHTER AIRCRAFT, *MILITARY...
India is a great military power in the world. It is fortifying its military at a fast pace. Thus, the other states in the world have raised a serious question: What drives India to modernize its military? This thesis borrows Sagans three modelssecurity model, norms model, and domestic-politics modelto address the research question of why India is expanding its military capability. Indias military expansion is analyzed using two case studies on nuclear weapons and aircraft carriers to determine...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Wan,Chih-Hung, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA MONTEREY United States, India,...
The Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center houses numerous complex computer systems for tracking air, missile, and space events that could threaten homeland security or undermine military operations in theater. To ensure this mission can be met, the systems require ongoing upgrades. The most recent upgrade program - the Combatant Commanders' Integrated Command and Control System (CCIC2S) - was initiated in 2000. Given the critical missions supported by Cheyenne Mountain systems, GAO initiated a...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC, *DEFENSE SYSTEMS, *MILITARY...
Topics: DTIC Archive, THE SOFTWARE REVOLUTION INC KIRTLAND WA, *INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CASE STUDIES,...
Briefing from the Phoenix Challenge 2002.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Gentry, Michael L, ARMY SIGNAL COMMAND FORT HUACHUCA AZ, *ARMY, *KNOWLEDGE...
Includes viewgraphs of selected elements of the Fiscal Year 2002 Department of Defense budget.
Topics: DTIC Archive, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE WASHINGTON DC, *DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, *MILITARY BUDGETS,...
This TRADOC BULLETIN is intended to provide to commanders, and others concerned with military training, timely information on weapons, tactics, and training. It is not intended to supplant doctrinal publications, but to supplement material on how to fight with data derived from tests, recent intelligence, or other sources.
Topics: DTIC Archive, ARMY TRAINING AND DOCTRINE COMMAND FORTMONROE VA, *MILITARY CAPABILITIES, *MILITARY...
Topics: DTIC Archive, TACOM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER WARREN MI, *SYMPOSIA, *GROUND...
Since 2002, Mongolia's commitment to international peace-support operations has dramatically increased and broadened the country's bilateral and multilateral military engagement throughout the world. By participating in UN peacekeeping and other peace-support operations, Mongolia and its military have gained tremendous experience, learned valuable lessons, and identified challenges in several critical areas that needed improvement. This thesis argues that Mongolia's commitment to international...
Topics: DTIC Archive, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *MONGOLIA, *NATIONAL SECURITY, *PEACETIME,...
China is moving from a large military traditionally composed of conscripts to a modernized smaller and more professionalized armed force. What is the reason behind this transformation and its goals? How is this military transition, modernization, and professionalization affecting China s Special Operations Forces (SOF) and their capabilities? This paper will look at China s military modernization and its shift from a traditionally large conscript force to one that is smaller, more...
Topics: DTIC Archive, ARMY WAR COLLEGE CARLISLE BARRACKS PA, *MILITARY MODERNIZATION, CHINA, POLICIES,...
For about 20 years, China has been embarked on process of military modernization intended to transform the People's Liberation Army (PLA) from a conscript-based mass army of rifles and millet to a force capable of effective operations on the contemporary battlefield. By any measure, the results have been impressive. While it is important not to overstate its progress-the PLA after all lacks any experience in modern warfare, its commanders unproven, its doctrine untested-China's military has...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA, *MILITARY OPERATIONS, *MILITARY MODERNIZATION, TAIWAN,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, JOINT PUBLICATIONS RESEARCH SERVICE ARLINGTON VA, *POLITICAL SCIENCE, *INTERNATIONAL...
Why the rush to change our Army? Was this decision truly the rational act of a visionary responding quickly to the future as he sees it, or was it fueled and hurried by the process of governmental politics? I contend that it was more the latter. In this paper I will explore and analyze three important aspects of the national security process that influenced the new Army Chief of Staff, GEN Shinseki, to make the decision to start now, and not later, to fundamentally change the Army from a...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Knauff, James E , Jr, NATIONAL WAR COLL WASHINGTON DC, *MILITARY MODERNIZATION,...
This Strategic Plan codifies the Air Force's strategic Priorities, Goals and Objectives in accordance with the intent of the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) and the President's Management Agenda (PMA). The 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) Report provides the strategic context and overarching guidance that direct our planning efforts. We will fully support the Department of Defense (DoD) as it transforms to best address the challenges of this strategic environment. As the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC, *MILITARY MODERNIZATION, *AIR FORCE...
