'Rethinking Readiness'

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments plans to hold a "congressional discussion" next week to talk about how the Defense Department measures readiness.

The Capitol Hill event, scheduled for 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 9, will be centered on an article published in the fall 2014 issue of the "Strategic Studies Quarterly" magazine titled "Rethinking Readiness."

The major tenets of the article, according to CSBA, are:

DOD's current method for resourcing readiness starts with the wrong metrics, lacks experimental data to isolate causal effects, and does not have a continuous feedback loop to update and refine readiness theories and models.

The military could be significantly overfunding or underfunding readiness without knowing it.

Todd Harrison, the study's author, "will explain how the DOD currently measures readiness and offer his recommendations on a more effective allocation of resources to achieve the readiness required by one’s strategy," according to a CSBA announcement.