ARMY AL&T
The fleet strategy sets broad objectives and guidelines while fleet plans assess critical data and analyses
operating within the boundaries of the strategy to define an execution plan to manage the fleet.
To successfully complete such a wide range of military operations, TWVs must be technically capable. These capabilities include being able to add and remove armor, travel cross coun- try, mount and dismount weapons, dispense fuel, handle and unload basic cargo loads and International Organization for Standardization- compliant containers, automatically increase and decrease tire pressures based on terrain, and transport 70 tons of cargo at high speed. However, such varied capabilities cannot be engineered in a single vehicle. Three families of vehicles fulfill these missions:
• Light Tactical Vehicle (LTV) Fleet: high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles (HMMWVs) and the planned next generation LTV, the Joint LTV (JLTV).
• Medium Tactical Vehicle (MTV) Fleet: Family of MTVs (FMTV) and legacy M35, M800, and M939 series.
• Heavy Tactical Vehicle (HTV) Fleet: Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT), Palletized Loading System (PLS), Heavy Equipment Transport (HET), and Line Haul.
Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles and MRAP-All Terrain Vehicles (M-ATVs) were built specifically for Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. MRAPs and M-ATVs will start to fill some armor-ready HMMWV requirements. Mission roles will consist of general purpose mobility, close combat weapons carrier, and con- voy protection platform. Current LTV, MTV, and HTV fleets are at a world- wide density of 260,000 vehicles.
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Army Strategy and Challenges The Army has a flexible and adaptable strategy. It allows for mitigating the risk of uncertainty caused by an evolving threat, for change to our force structure to meet our missions, and for changes impacting the Army budget. Army strategic guidance provides a basic framework through the following oper- ating principles:
• Taking maximum advantage of and maintaining existing platforms through recapitalization (recap), product improvement modernization, and reset.
• Planning the integration of MRAPs into the fleet mix.
• Emphasizing a mixed-fleet approach that spans the “iron triangle” of protection, payload, and performance.
• Moving to an “armor-ready” fleet that has scalable protection (the ability to remove and replace armor).
Challenges will include the need for a consolidated database of key fleet plan- ning data. Currently, work is ongoing with the Army’s staff agencies to use standard Army databases and develop calculation models to standardize a set of management tools to better assess the fleet and review courses of actions in making key decisions to procure, recap, or divest vehicles.
Current and Future Outlook of the TWV Fleet
The light, medium, and heavy fleets each have unique challenges because of their specific missions, require- ments, and age. The LTV fleet has largely met force requirement quanti- ties, meaning HMMWV production
will decrease. The Army and U.S. Marine Corps’ (USMC’s) JLTV, with increased payload, protection, and per- formance capabilities, is intended to replace a portion of the aging/obsolete HMMWV fleet. The fleet manage- ment strategy for the LTV fleet then is to ramp down HMMWV production of current armor-capable variants, recap select utility and armor variants, and divest obsolete variants. The JLTV will gradually ramp up in production and replace aging and/or limited capability HMMWVs; the Army’s LTV fleet will include a combination of HMMWVs and JLTVs for the extended future.
The current MTV fleet meets force requirement quantities, but includes significant quantities of outdated legacy vehicles, which need to be replaced with increased capability FMTVs. The fleet management strategy for the MTV fleet is to replace obsolete legacy vehicles with FMTV and cascade retrograded M939s. Current production FMTVs also include the ability to be armored.
The HTV fleet is also a combination of modern armor-ready and outdated legacy vehicles. The fleet management strategy for the HTV fleet includes new procurement of armor-ready variants to fill shortages for HEMTT and PLS; recap of legacy models of HEMTT and PLS to modernize armor-ready configu- rations; and procurement of HET and Line Haul to replace these aging and obsolete fleets.
Developing a Fleet Management Strategy
The overall objective of the TWV fleet management is to provide the right vehicle, in the right place, at the right time, and at the right price. The tools or methods to manage the fleets include optimized combinations of new pro- curement, recap, reset, and divestiture. The monetary resources to manage the fleets are prioritized to address the most pressing needs, such as filling shortages, replacing obsolete vehicles,
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