Options for Strategic Military Transportation Systems

Options for Strategic Military Transportation Systems
Title:
Options for Strategic Military Transportation Systems
Format:
Paperback
USA Price: 
Stock:
Low stock
GPO Stock Number:
041-001-00622-2
ISBN:
0-16-072947-5
Description

This Congressional Budget Office study—prepared at the request of the Readiness Subcommittee of the House Committee on Armed Services—looks at the technical, operational, and cost issues associated with alternative transportation systems that DoD might develop and procure to reduce the time needed to deploy forces. The study compares the advantages, disadvantages, and costs of six transportation alternatives: four that would use existing technologies and two that would develop more-advanced systems. In keeping with CBO’s mandate to provide objective, impartial analysis, this study makes no recommendations.

Table of Contents

1 Today’s Strategic Transportation Capabilities

1 The Evolution of U.S. Strategic Transportation Forces

1 The Structure of Current Strategic Mobility Forces

2 The Delivery Rate of Today’s Strategic Mobility Forces

6 Perceived Shortfalls of Current Forces

9 2 Factors That Affect Delivery Times of Strategic Transportation Forces

11 The Time Needed to Move a Unit to Its Destination

11 The Importance of Payload

16 3 Options for Improving Strategic Transportation Forces

19 Approach for Developing the Alternatives

19 Options to Improve Airlift 21 Options to Improve Surge Sealift

24 Options to Expand Prepositioned Forces

28 4 Comparison of Strategic Transportation Options

31 Promptness and Throughput Capacity

31 The Impact of Infrastructure Constraints

33 Length of the RSOI Stage 37 Survivability

39 Other Considerations

39 A How CBO Estimated the Costs of the Options in This Study

41 Glossary of Abbreviations

 

Audience

organizations listed in this resource as key users of this information include: Maritime Prepositioning Force, Maritime Prepositioning Force, NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization NAVSEA, Naval Sea Systems Command, DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DoD, Department of Defense, USTRANSCOM, U.S. Transportation Command.

Product Details

Availability Details:
In Stock
USA Price:
$4.75
International Price:
$6.65
Publisher:
Congress, Congressional Budget Office
Author:
  • Arthur, David
Notes:
NB1310
Key Phrases:
  • CBO Study
  • Cost of War
  • Military Transportation
  • Transports
  • Defense Policy
  • Defense Budgets
  • Congressional Publications
Weight:
0.625
Quantity Price:
Discount
Cover:
Paper
Unit of Issue (US):
1
Unit of Issue (Non-US):
1
Record Creation Date:
10/03/2005
Last Status Update:
09/13/2023
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