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Improving Army Deployability Metrics

出版	RAND, 2016
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Qs-StgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This document is part of a suite of reports done in support of the RAND Arroyo Center project "Assessing and Improving Deployment Readiness," through which RAND Arroyo was tasked by the Army to investigate the Army's readiness to execute large-scale and short-notice deployments, and to develop recommendations for better assessing that capability. In 2013, the Army published an execute order (EXORD) stating that Army brigade combat teams (BCTs) at power projection platforms (PPPs) should be able to depart the PPP for overseas deployment in five days. Despite its inclusion in many deployment plans, some concern has been expressed about the Army's ability to meet this timeline. As it currently stands, there have been no recent rapid deployments or full-scale rehearsals to examine whether this timeline can be met. We use a discrete-event simulation model to simulate a deployment of a BCT and examine the time with which it take the BCT to clear the installation under current policies and resource levels. We then examine the potential effects of greater resource levels and the forward positioning of materiel on the installation clearing time using a number of different scenarios. We found that, under current conditions and resource levels, it would take approximately 22 days for a BCT to clear the installation, clearly longer than the five day requirement. However, we also find that it is possible to nearly achieve the five day standard with reasonable investments in inspector and computing capacity, improvements in data quality, and the forward positioning of materiel. To further explore the feasibility of the five day timeline, we recommend short-notice large-scale deployment training exercises, which the Army intends to pursue.