Reserve Board Meeting

The Reserve Forces Policy Board will meet on Sept. 2, according to a Federal Register notice published this morning.

The meeting's purpose "is to obtain, review and evaluate information related to strategies, policies, and practices designed to improve and enhance the capabilities, efficiency, and effectiveness of the Reserve Components. Additionally, the Board will review its work from the past year and determine what matters to include in the annual report required by law to be transmitted to the President and the Congress by the Secretary of Defense."

The notice further states:

The meeting will focus on discussions of the Services' personnel system reforms being considered under the Force of the Future initiative and its effects on the Reserve Components to the RFPB from the invited speakers to include the Acting Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness), Chief of Naval Personnel, U.S. Navy; Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower, Personnel and Services, U.S. Air Force; Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1, U.S. Army; Deputy Commandant for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, U.S. Marine Corps; and Director, Reserve & Military Personnel, U.S. Coast Guard. Additionally, two of the RFPB subcommittee chairs will provide updates on the work of their respective subcommittee. The Ensuring a Ready, Capable, Available and Sustainable Operational Reserve Subcommittee will provide findings of their review of the Department's and Service's mobilization and dwell time policies and authorities affecting the Reserve Component operational availability, and will conclude with a briefing by the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) on the initial findings of their study on the Reserve Component effectiveness during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). The Supporting & Sustaining Reserve Component Personnel Subcommittee plans to highlight issues and to recommend a change to the Service's management of their Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) programs.