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      "id": 303607,
      "date": "2005-04-29",
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      "title": "Strategic Mobility Innovation: Options and Oversight Issues",
      "summary": "Since the George W. Bush Administration announced its proposal to reduce the U.S. military \noverseas basing posture, strategic mobility has been the topic of many policy discussions. The \nAdministration\u2019s identification of transformation as a major goal for the Department of\nDefense\n(DOD), technological advances, the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) deployment goals, and\nanti-access issues also have relevance with regard to the topic of strategic mobility. The issue for\nthe 109th Congress is to determine which investments should be pursued today to develop strategic\nmobility platforms to meet tomorrow\u2019s National Security Strategy requirements. \n \n Several studies pertain to strategic mobility innovation. These studies include the\nDOD\u2019s\nMobility Requirements Study for 2005, the Department of Army\u2019s Advanced Mobility\nConcepts\nStudy (AMCS), the Institute of Defense Analyses\u2019 Assessment of the AMCS, a Defense\nScience\nBoard (DSB) Mobility Study, and the DOD\u2019s Transformation Planning Guidance. These\nstudies,\nalong with current U.S. strategic mobility inventories and strategic mobility funding trends, all\npertain to the discussion. They examine issues such as DOD\u2019s million-ton-mile per day\nrequirement,\nfuture mobility concepts and feasibilities, the importance of decreasing the Services\u2019\ndeployment\nfootprint, transformation roadmaps, the DOD\u2019s current strategic mobility inventories, and\nairlift/sealift future funding trends.\n \n Research identifies at least 11 potential strategic mobility platforms, which include four sealift\nvehicles and seven airlift vehicles. The four sealift vehicles assessed in this report are the\nShallow-Draft High Speed Sealift, the Fast Sealift-Monohull, the Navy Vision Trimaran High Speed\nSealift, and the Navy Vision Surface Effect Ship High Speed Sealift. The seven airlift vehicles\nassessed are the Global Range Transport, the Super-Short, Take-off and Landing Aircraft, spiral\ndevelopment of the C-17 - Payload/Range Expansion Program, the Ultra-Large Airlifter, unmanned\naerial vehicles, the Wing-in-Ground Effect Aircraft, and Seaplanes. \n \n Strategic mobility innovation raises potential oversight questions for Congress in the following\nareas: (1) Does Congress have sufficient information about the DOD\u2019s plans for lift and\npotential\nlift platforms to adequately assess investment options? (2) To what degree, if any, should\ngovernment funding be used to develop new lift platforms? (3) What mix of lift platforms might be\nappropriate to both meet future U.S. commercial lift needs and potentially assist in meeting future\nmilitary strategic lift requirements? (4) Should any of these lift platforms be developed and procured\nin part to support the defense industrial base? (5) Should procurement of airlift/sealift be expanded\nbeyond current DOD plans, and if so, by how much, and with what platforms?",
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