{"id":13424,"date":"2017-04-06T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexingtoninstitute.org\/?p=13424"},"modified":"2017-04-09T09:26:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T13:26:29","slug":"army-needs-speed-efforts-close-critical-capability-gaps-national-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/army-needs-speed-efforts-close-critical-capability-gaps-national-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Needs To Speed Up Efforts To Close Critical Capability Gaps (From The National Interest)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past year the U.S. Army has been conducting a Strategic Portfolio Analysis Review (SPAR) of its 780 weapons and equipment programs. Championed by Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley, the key requirement of the SPAR is to identify modernization priorities that must be pursued in order to maintain and eventually regain overmatch to credibly deter and defeat near-peer adversaries. Based on the SPAR\u2019s identification of critical capability gaps, the Army\u2019s leadership will decide which programs require immediate attention and resources and which programs can be slowed down or de-scoped to extract resources to be placed against higher priority needs. It is apparent that the first Trump defense budget will not provide the Army with significant additional funds to modernize a rapidly aging force.\u00a0 Hence, it must rebalance its modernization portfolio to ensure that high priority programs receive the necessary resources and support. I have written a commentary for The National Interest <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/the-buzz\/the-army-needs-speed-efforts-close-critical-capability-gaps-20061\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past year the U.S. Army has been conducting a Strategic Portfolio Analysis Review (SPAR) of its 780 weapons and equipment programs. Championed by Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley, the key requirement of the SPAR is to identify modernization priorities that must be pursued in order to maintain and eventually regain overmatch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Army Needs To Speed Up Efforts To Close Critical Capability Gaps (From The National Interest) - Lexington Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/army-needs-speed-efforts-close-critical-capability-gaps-national-interest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Army Needs To Speed Up Efforts To Close Critical Capability Gaps (From The National Interest) - Lexington Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over the past year the U.S. Army has been conducting a Strategic Portfolio Analysis Review (SPAR) of its 780 weapons and equipment programs. 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