to minimize the time spent on administrative procedures.

Recommendation 4. The Department of Defense should take immediate action to improve the management of the Individual Ready Reserve and extend the Army's Reserve Component Automation System for use beyond peacetime.

Rather than conduct pilot programs in these two areas, the Department of Defense should employ available technologies to help fill units more rapidly before deployment and to use the existing peacetime computer system after mobilization. If necessary, Congress should be asked to change the law and provide funding.

Recommendation 5. The Department of Defense should instruct the military services to collect data on the stability of reserve component and active component personnel-specifically, the stability of individuals in small units.

The data should be collected in consistent form using standard definitions. The Department of Defense should consider including this data in an integrated database with unit performance data, thereby providing a basis for data mining to search for hidden relationships between best practices and small unit performance. The data should cover, for example, members of tank crews, battle staffs at the battalion or other levels, and maintenance teams for sophisticated equipment. Once these data have been collected and analyzed, the merits of alternative means of improving the stability of individuals in units should be assessed, especially in units where stabilization is essential to performance.

DoD (U.S. Department of Defense). 1995. Directions for Defense. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Defense, Commission on Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces.

CJCS (Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff). 1996. Joint Vision 2010. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Defense, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Front Matter (R1-R12)

Executive Summary (1-7)

1 Introduction (8-10)

2 Reserve Forces Today (11-16)

3 National Security and Technological Environments and Their Effects (17-26)

4 Pilot Programs (27-42)

5 Descriptions of High Priority and Highlighted Pilot Programs (43-59)

6 Conclusions and Recommendations (60-62)

References (63-64)

Appendix A Committee Meetings (65-69)

Appendix B Descriptions of Other Pilot Programs (70-82)