Wednesday July 10, 2013
What is it?
The Army Equipping Guidance 2013 through 2016 is the Army’s multi-year guidance, providing direction for Army components, major commands, and units for allocating and distributing equipment.
What has the Army done?
The purpose of the Army Equipping Guidance (AEG) is to ensure the Army gets the right equipment to the right units, on the right installations, at the least possible cost. The AEG lays out three lines of effort:
Equip Units for their Missions
Increase Readiness by Redistributing Equipment
Save Money
Equipping to ARFORGEN is the main line of effort. Unit based equipping provides increased levels of equipment to rotational units based on their ARFORGEN phase, critical equipping points and assigned mission. It also equips non-rotational units and ensures the reserve components have the MTOE authorized equipment they need to support Homeland Defense and Defense of Civilian Authorities responsibilities.
What efforts does the Army have in the future?
The Army is transitioning its equipping guidance from one that solely met the requirements of fighting two wars the last decade to new guidance that supports the Future Force Generation model.
Why is this important to the Army?
The underlying foundation of this guidance is to identify and minimize equipment risks and costs as we transition from Afghanistan through sequestration towards regionally aligned and mission tailored forces. It is critical to get this right as failure will impact the equipment readiness of Army units in future years.
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