MODERNIZATION OF ARMY MATERIEL Modernization of our current inventory continues to be one of the more serious dilemmas that faces the Army today in the area of materiel programing. We must modernize equipment in accordance with new concepts yet replace the old wornout materiel that will maintain our ability to fight on the nonatomic battlefield of the future. Modernization of equipment is characterized by the following features. First, procurement of new (post-Korean war) conventional weapons and equipment such as tanks, rifles, and machineguns. Second, replacement of wornout and obsoleted assets with more modern versions (truck fleet). Third, the procurement of nonconventional items-guided missiles, rockets, atomics, and aircraft (warheads and conversion kits). Excluding the fixed costs in our annual appropriations (for example, industrial mobilization and transportation charges for delivery of past year's procurements) provides a net amount that the Army devotes to modernization under the austere budgets that have been provided. Breakdown, procurement of equipment and missiles, Army budget estimates [In millions] Procurement of equipment and missiles, Army fixed costs: Procurement of equipment and missiles, Army modernization of conventional equipment---- Procurement of equipment and missiles, Army modernization of missiles and Army aircraft.. Subtotal------ Total procurement of equipment and missiles, Army budget esti- $76.0 41.5 5.8 14.1 39.0 176. 4 716.3 480.0 1, 196. 3 1,372.7 Comparison of average cost per man in appropriations "Military personnel, Army” and "Operation and maintenance, Army” 1 1 1 Based on total direct obligations for these appropriations and total man-years of Active Army strength. Military strength ratios (combat forces versus all others) NOTE.-1951 through 1958 based on actual strength including reimbursables; 1959-60 based on programed strengths excluding reimbursables, 1949 1950. 1951. 1952 19 3. 1954. 1955. 1956. 1957. 1958. 1959. 1960. 88,829 76, 716 158, 438 144, 521 125, 601 L.S. Army Reserve 1 End drill (4) 186, 541 Fiscal year 154, 816 134, 937 117,323 Fiscal year 1955. 1956. 1957. 1958. 1959. 1960 Total ob- Average Thous. $100, 465 153, 787 175, 499 176, 008 1 Excludes ROTC. Includes: Military personnel costs (pay, clothing, subsistence, travel) maintenance and operations costs, and military construction, U.S. Army Reserve. Total obligated funds 1 To reflect greater accuracy and to bring past years into proper comparability with the fiscal year 1960 President's budget, the average drill (paid) strength for past years has been changed from a begin year and end year strength average to an average of the midmonth strengths. No separate reporting for drill (paid) strengths was maintained for 1949. Army National Guard Thousands 196, 500 197, 200 175, 964 176, 121 205, 026 246, 183 300, 114 336, 170 349, 851 $357,093 $352, 961 End drill (paid) strength Average (paid) strength 163, 137 197,340 260, 377 272, 683 $300,000 $261, 000 288, 060 332, 762 257, 532 219, 754 232, 291 282, 962 339,043 380, 242 413, 471 408, 383 $ 400,000 $380,000 End (paid) strength 313, 805 326, 395 226, 785 214, 646 255,887 318, 776 358,241 404, 403 422, 178 394, 329 $400,000 $360,000 Includes: Military personnel costs (pay, clothing, subsistence, travel), maintenance and operations costs, and military construction, Army National Guard. Average strengths fiscal year 1949, fiscal year 1958 computed in accordance with par. 6(3) AR 325–10, Sum on the initial strength, the month-end strengths of the 1st 11 months of the current fiscal year, and the end strength of the current year divided by 12. • Estimated. |