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he U.S. Army Security Assis- tance Command (USASAC) is demonstrating a concept that could offset millions of
dollars in divestiture expenses for the U.S. Army as it removes excess equipment from inventory and modernizes the force.
For decades, the Army has consoli- dated its excess equipment—helicopters, mobile rocket launchers, tanks and tacti- cal wheeled vehicles, for example—at various Army depots and stored it for years with the idea of having a reach-back capability for future programs or in the event of a national emergency. Unfortu- nately, the stored equipment is minimally maintained and deteriorates over time, until a decision is made to either declare the equipment as “excess defense arti- cles” or to demilitarize it—eliminating its functional capabilities and inherent military design features by either remov- ing or destroying the critical features, or by total destruction: cutting, tearing, crushing, mangling, shredding, melting, burning, and so on.
Excess Defense Articles is a security assis- tance program managed by the U.S. Department of State that enables the modernization of partner forces. USASAC, a subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC), is the Army’s implementing agency for foreign military sales, by which the United States provides partners and allies with a capability to conduct military operations with or with- out U.S. forces in their region for security and stability.
In 2011, the Army became aware that it had too much equipment and needed a strategy to reduce the inventory. After 10 years of war, senior Army leaders real- ized they would not be able to sustain the current equipment while also work- ing to modernize the force. Te projected shipping, storage and maintenance costs associated with the excess equipment would create an enduring burden to the taxpayer, and that was unacceptable. Te Excess Defense Articles mission transfers equipment declared excess by the Army to U.S. foreign partners at low or no cost. Te approval process goes through
the Army and interagency staffing before ultimately being presented to Congress for approval—which historically has proven to take a long time.
Te Army’s solution was to create a work- ing group to identify excess equipment and determine the most efficient and cost-effective way to quickly remove it from the Army’s property books. While the working group has had several names over the years, including the Army Divestiture Working Group, Equipment Redistribution and Divestiture Readiness Strategy and, currently, the Total Equip- ment Management Strategy, its goal has remained the same: to build Army read- iness while purging excess and obsolete equipment—as soon as possible.
With this new expedited approach, once equipment was determined to be excess, disposition instructions were created: Ship to another unit; ship to Army depots for long-term storage; or, in most cases, ship to the Defense Logistics Agency Dispo- sition Services for demilitarization. Te velocity of
these turn-ins created a EXPENSIVE WRAPPING
Shrink-wrapped Kiowa Warrior helicopters await loading on a U.S. Navy ship en route to Iraq in 2003. The Army originally wanted to store the helicopters at Davis- Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona—at a cost of roughly $35,000 each to prep for storage and as much as $500,000 to bring each helicopter back to operational status. (U.S. Navy photo by Bart Jackson)
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