Working Group 21 Charter
Readiness
(Last Updated 12 July 2002)
PURPOSE: The purpose of this working group
is to investigate the issues that affect readiness.
DISCUSSION: Defense Planning Guidance has
identified readiness as the Department of Defense’s top priority. Our primary
challenge is to maintain readiness despite the drawdown and continuing budget
reductions.
A broad range of OSD, JCS, and Service
organizations are investigating the many dimensions of force readiness:
indicators, measures, analytical tools, monitoring and reporting systems,
budgetary constructs, use of simulations and advanced technologies, and testing
methodologies. In addition to traditional views of readiness, the Department of
Defense is focusing its energies in several new areas. For example, there is a
need to bring a greater focus on overall capability to readiness analysis, not
just the analysis of readiness metrics. We need to investigate ways to use
simulation to enhance readiness and save money. Some of the key questions which
need to be addressed include: Do we have an effective and efficient readiness
posture for our forces? How can exercises, simulations and other tools be used
to test readiness? What areas do readiness decisions impact, and how? What are
the implications of these decisions on mobilization, training, personnel,
materiel, logistics, reconstitution, and infrastructure? What are the cause and
effect relationships between the influential drivers of readiness and the output
metrics that we use to determine its overall health?
Many of the readiness efforts are relatively new.
We hope to attract presentations on the work in the various areas as well as
provide a forum for discussion of the challenges that need to be met in this
arena.
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WORKING GROUPS:
19 - Logistics, Reliability and Maintainability, 20 - Manpower and Personnel, 22
- Analytic Support to Training, 27 - Cost Analysis, 28 -
Decision Analysis, 29 - Modeling, Simulation and Wargaming.
