Army's Strategic Readiness System (SRS): The Road to Improved Readiness or Just Another Bright Idea

摘要

The focus of this paper is the Army's Strategic Readiness System (SRS), a relatively new system the Army is in the process of implementing to more effectively measure readiness of individual Army units and the collective readiness of the Army as an institution. I believe the study of SRS is instructive for several reasons relevant to NWC Course 5603. It provides real- world examples of the course's framework of people, organization and process and SRS remains both a topical and contentious issue within the Army. As I discussed when getting approval for this topic, although there has been some inter-agency coordination with the Department of Defense (DoD) and Congress, implementing SRS is primarily an example of intra-agency challenges because it is so different from the long-standing readiness reporting system the Army has had for decades.