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The Armored Brigade Combat Team in the 2020 Time Frame Will Have Higher Operational Energy Needs.

• The estimate is that 36 percent more fuel will be needed to support a brigade-sized operation.
• If the Bradley fighting vehicle is kept and not replaced, the estimate changes to 12 percent more fuel required.

The Combat Service Support Force Will Have to Adapt.

• The Army will continue to reduce its force size and transition to a smaller, more agile, and modular combat force.
• Army budgets will be constrained.
• Competing objectives can increase the problem of meeting all demands.

Acquisition in the Future Will Have to Consider the Energy Requirements of Future Systems.

• The Department of Defense has proposed using an energy key performance parameter and a fully burdened cost of energy analysis.

The RAND National Defense Research Institute assessed the potential impact that fielding the five Army vehicle modernization programs would have on the operational energy requirements of combat, combat support, and combat service support forces. The modernization programs planned at the start of the research were the Ground Combat Vehicle (since cancelled), the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle, the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, the Paladin Integrated Management program vehicle, and the Modular Fuel System. The authors developed and applied a methodology that leveraged detailed combat effectiveness models to account for the operational energy needs associated with supporting combat missions.

RAND's methodology enables a system-level examination of the battlefield. Using this framework, one can examine both the interplay between the Blue combat force and the Red threat, and the interactions among all the elements on the battlefield, including the support force and the protection force. The team assessed the modernization programs by simulating an MCO scenario with three phases: a combat phase, a combat support phase, and a combat service support phase, examining both the operational energy needs within these phases along with the combat effectiveness of the force. The methodology developed by RAND is suitable for a range of analyses that aim to address the systemwide impact of force modernization initiatives to specifically include both logistics and combat effectiveness.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  Methodology and Major Combat Operation Scenario

• Chapter Three

  Fuel Consumption Analysis Results

• Chapter Four

  Combat Effectiveness Analysis Results

• Chapter Five

  Conclusions

• Appendix A

  Discussion on Fuel Calculations and Methodology

• Appendix B

  Details of the Major Combat Operation Scenario

• Appendix C

  Future Army Systems: GCV, AMPV, PIM, and JLTV