Battlefield Automation: Army Needs to Determine Command and Control
Priorities and Costs (Letter Report, 11/19/93, GAO/NSIAD-94-12).

Given shrinking budgets and a downsized military, the Army recognizes
that it must change its command and control structure and has made
laudable progress toward that goal.  In its 1993 action plan, the Army
concluded that a major shift was needed from the cold war command and
control architecture based on a European scenario to a post-Cold War
scenario.  It identified 51 issues, significantly changing acquisitions
needed to implement the concepts envisioned for post-Cold War command
and control.  The Army has not yet, however, prioritized these issues or
identified the plan's impact on costs.  Therefore, it cannot target
funding to the appropriately sequenced critical issues.  In addition,
the plan's effect on command and control systems' requirements and
procedures is still sketchy.

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 REPORTNUM:  NSIAD-94-12
     TITLE:  Battlefield Automation: Army Needs to Determine Command and 
             Control Priorities and Costs
      DATE:  11/19/93
   SUBJECT:  Command and control systems
             Defense communications operations
             Defense contingency planning
             Cost analysis
             Military systems analysis
             Defense cost control
             Systems design
             Reductions in force
             Systems architecture
             Prioritizing
IDENTIFIER:  Warsaw Pact
             Desert Storm
             Force Projection Army Command and Control Action Plan
             Army Command and Control System
             Army Tactical Command and Control System
             ATCCS
             Military Strategic and Tactical Relay Satellite 
             Communications System
             MILSTAR
             
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