Military Transformation: Army Has a Comprehensive Plan for Managing Its Transformation but Faces Major Challenges

摘要

The Army has begun to transform itself from a Cold War-orientated force into a more rapidly deployable and responsive force better able to meet the diverse defense challenges of the future. The far-reaching organizational and operational changes that the Army plans will affect virtually every element of the Army and take decades to implement. In addition, funding the transformation, including developing and acquiring future combat systems and modernizing aging equipment, will be difficult. To implement the transformation, the Army has developed a Transformation Campaign Plan. The Campaign Plan is a mechanism for integrating transformation efforts within the Army and for achieving the goal of transforming the Army over 30 years. Pursuant to our basic legislative responsibilities, we are monitoring the Army's transformation efforts. This report is the second of a planned series of reports related to these efforts It (1) assesses the Army's processes for managing transformation efforts and (2) identifies key challenges that the Army faces in managing its transformation. We briefed your offices on the results of our work in July and September 2001. This report summarizes and updates the major messages of those briefings and is being provided because of your oversight responsibilities.