TY - BOOK ID - 137707256 TI - A funding allocation methodology for war reserve secondary items AU - Girardini, Ken. AU - Fan, Carol E. AU - Miller, Candice. PY - 2010 PB - Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, DB - UniCat KW - Resource allocation KW - Inventories KW - Military education KW - Military readiness KW - Deployment (Strategy) KW - Military planning KW - Planning. KW - United States. KW - Supplies and stores. KW - Appropriations and expenditures. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137707256 AB - U.S. Army units must be ready to deploy rapidly in the event of a contingency. During peacetime operations, the Army maintains inventory to support training and to maintain readiness. When a contingency occurs, deployed operating tempo often leads to increased demands for sustainment materiel for units involved in the operation, leading to an increase in global sustainment demands. Additional sustainment materiel is needed not only to maintain unit readiness in the face of these higher demand rates until the production base can respond but also to relieve the initial strain on the supply chain by reducing early airlift requirements. The war reserve secondary items (WRSI) portion of the sustainment stock within Army Prepositioned Stock (APS) is designed to address these two issues of production capacity gaps and early airlift requirements. Historically, the computed WRSI requirements have not been fully funded. Yet no methodology exists by which war reserve requirements can be prioritized. Rather, after the requirements are computed, a time-intensive, decentralized review process is used to allocate resources to determine what portion of the requirement will be funded and where it will be positioned. Thus, as part of an ongoing, formal process for determining WRSI stocks around the world, the Army asked the RAND Arroyo Center to develop techniques outside the Army's legacy system to prioritize item-level spending on war reserve materiel for a Northeast Asia contingency scenario with a known deployment schedule. The Army requested a quick-turn, 60-day product that (1) used empirical demand data to drive the allocation, (2) determined which items should be forward positioned versus stored in the continental United States (CONUS) and delivered via airlift, and (3) allocated the budgeted fiscal year (FY) 2007 funding. ER -