Preparing Warriors for Today and Tomorrow: An Exercise in Balance

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Preparing Warriors for Today and Tomorrow An
Exercise in Balance
Royal United Services Institute Future Land
Warfare Conference VIII
Mr. Stephen BroughallDirector, Business Mission
Area Office of the Secretary of the Army 13 June
2008
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Era of Persistent Conflict
WMD Proliferation
Resource Competition
Extremist Networks
Globalization
Oil/Gas Demand
Demographic Trends
Terrorist Attacks
Iraq
Afghan
Insurgency
Islamic Extremism
Climate Change
Narco-Terrorism
Natural Disasters
Failed/Failing States
Extremist Networks
Humanitarian
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Conflict Within the Human Dimension . . . War
among the People
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Restoring Balance
Source Army Public Affairs 2008 Army Posture
Statement
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Army Modernization Strategy

• Rapidly field the best new equipment to the
  Current Force
• Upgrade and modernize existing systems
• Incorporate new technologies derived from Future
  Combat Systems (FCS)
• Field FCS leading-edge technologies across the
  Army, and fully equip FCS Brigade Combat
  Teams (BCTs)

Future Combat Systems Core of Army
Transformation
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Future Combat Systems
Manned Ground Vehicles (MGV)
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Class 1 (UAV)
Common Chassis
Non-Line of Sight Cannon (NLOS-C)
Unattended Ground Systems (UGS)
Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV)
Tactical-Unattended Ground Sensors (T-UGS)
Multifunctional Utility/Logistics and Equipment
(MULE)
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Spin Out Enabled Current Modular Force
IBCT
IBCT Gap
FCS Spin Outs
SBCT
FCS Spin Outs
SBCT Gap
SBCT Gap
HBCT
HBCT Gap
FCS Spin Outs
HBCT Gap
HBCT Gap

• Current BCTs Not Capable of Achieving Future
  Force Concept
• Higher SA to lowest levels single integrated COP
• Battle Command on the move
• Networked SoS Survivability
• Operational Maneuver
• Reduced Logistics footprint
• Enhanced Training
• Networked Fires
• Growing Life Cycle Costs

• Current Force Capability Gaps
• Network enabled Battle Command
• Protect the Force in COIN
• Soldier protection in COIN
• Log/Med in COIN non contiguous AO
• Train the Force how and as it fights
• Tactical communications
• Joint interoperability, Coalition Interagency
• Enhanced ISR capabilities
• Current Force Capabilities Gap Analysis VI, Aug 07

FCS Spin Outs address Current BCT Gaps
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High Technology Army
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Preparing Warriors for Today and Tomorrow An
Exercise in Balance
Royal United Services Institute Future Land
Warfare Conference VIII
Lieutenant General N. Ross Thompson IIIMilitary
Deputy to theActing Assistant Secretary of the
Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology)
Director, Acquisition Career Management 13 June
2008
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FCS Brigade Combat Team Platforms
Communicate / See / Understand / Act
Reconnaissance And Surveillance Vehicle (RSV)
Network
Class I UAV
Command and Control Vehicle (C2V)
Class IV UAV
Move
Spin-Outs
FCS Recovery and Maintenance Vehicle (FRMV)
MULE-T
MULE-C
Medical Vehicle Treatment (MV-T)
Multifunction Utility/ Logistics and Equipment
Countermine and Transport
Common Chassis
Armed Robotic Vehicle Assault (Light) (ARV-A-L)
Medical Vehicle Evacuation (MV-E)
Shoot
Mounted Combat System (MCS)
Non-Line of Sight Mortar (NLOS-M)
Infantry Carrier Vehicle (ICV)
Non-Line of Sight Cannon (NLOS-C)
Greatly Enables and Protects the Soldier
As of 8MAY08
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Transformation Facer 2
Excalibur 155mm GPS guided Artillery
Munitions DCGS-A Distributed Common Ground
System-Army. Primary System for tasking,
processing, correlating, integrating, exploiting,
and disseminating Intelligence. DCGS-A is the
Intel, Surv, Recon gateway to Joint ,
Interagency, allied, coalition, and national
data. WIN-T Warfighter Information
Network-Tactical. Is Armys fully mobile,
tactical communications system for reliable
secure, and seamless video, data, imagery, and
voice services. MRM Mid-Range Munition. 120mm
gun launched precision-guided munition, for the
Future Combat System (FCS) Mounted Combat Systems
(MCS) vehicle. Beyond Line-of-Sight 8K. GSS
Ground Soldier System. GSS will provide the
Soldier the ability to see first, understand
first, act first and finish decisively. Through
this effort, the Army provides Soldiers safe,
efficient, modern support items to replace
antiquated equipment. JTRS Joint Tactical
Radio System. JTRS is a Defense Department-wide
initiative to develop a family of revolutionary
software-programmable tactical radios that will
provide the warfighter with voice, data and video
communications, as well as interoperability
across the joint battlespace. Current radio
systems lack interoperability across the spectrum
and have insufficient bandwidth to meet present
and future communications challenges. JTRS AMF
Airborne and Maritime/Fixed Station GMR
Ground Mobile Radios HMS Handheld, Manpack,
Small form fit. JLTV Joint Light Tactical
Vehicle is a family of vehicles that address
current capabilities gaps, to increase force
protection, survivability, fuel-efficiency,
capacity, maneuverability and automotive safety
balanced with the total cost of ownership.
Vehicles also must meet current weight and
dimension requirements for transportability
aboard ships and aircraft.
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FCS Facer Slide

• The MGV suite of vehicles is the heart and body
  of the Network Centric Future Brigade Combat Team
  force. Without MGVs there is no System of
  Systems approach. The majority of the sensors in
  the FCS Brigade Combat Team are in the MGV. The
  MGVs employ 70-80 common chassis and a common
  15-piece tool kit.
• The MGVs will have better armor protection than
  current vehicles. FCS technology is driving the
  advance protection we are putting on systems
  today.
• Additionally, as technology matures we are
  spinning-out critical capabilities through the
  Army Evaluation Task Force to the rest of the
  Army as fast as possible.
• The information systems and the intelligence
  systems that support an FCS brigade combat team
  will enable Soldiers to avoid detection and avoid
  being hit they will know what is around the
  next block or hill.
• The passing of data from sensors, UAV's , UGV's ,
  UGS and other platforms is not relayed by a radio
  call but appears on their Common Operating
  Picture screen inside the MGV's. Real time data
  not something passed through layers of relays.
• The FCS (BCT) sends unmanned platforms forward
  first sensing while gaining data and information
  that is instantly passed to all in sector.
• Should a MGV receive fire its Active Protection
  System reacts and removes the threat without
  damage to the system.

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Facer FCS- Comparative MeasurementsWhat we see
so farFCS BCT compared to Heavy BCT

• Deployability FCS BCT deploys faster and
  builds combat power more rapidly. Enables the
  earlier shift of strategic lift assets to other
  priorities.
• Air FCS Bn more than 2 times sooner FBCT more
  than 1.5 days sooner (aircraft MOG and
  availability limits benefit at BCT level).
• Air sorties FCS Bn 49 versus Heavy Bn 107 FCS
  BCT 569 versus 823
• Sea One less FSS or JHSS and 1-3 days faster
  than HBCT
• Enable Joint Operations The ability of the FCS
  BCT to acquire significantly more threat targets,
  earlier in the operation, enhances the efficiency
  of joint fires and results in more threat kills
  earlier.
• Sustainability In recent analyses, compared to
  the FCS BCT, the HBCT required 3-6 times the
  number of truck loads to haul repair parts,
  consumed 5000-10,000 more gallons of fuel a day,
  and required up to 4 times the number of mechanic
  man-hours.
• Lethality FCS BCT killed threats earlier and at
  longer ranges (1.5 to 4 times as much gt3KM).
• Dominant Maneuver FCS BCT able to affect a
  larger area of operations (about twice as large
  AO) and provides commanders with more options for
  executing missions. FCS BCT completes missions
  up to 30 faster.

Compared to the HBCT, the FCS BCT offers the
commander more options to achieve mission
success, more quickly, with less demand on
sustainment.
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Capability Comparison Current to Future
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Developing and Acquiring Transformational
Capabilities for the Army
Future Combat Systems Core of Army
Transformation