PPT Slide
The challenge in modernizing the Field Artillery is to transform a notional view of the future into a 21st Century warfighting reality. The task at hand is to adopt a strategy with sufficient "meat and muscle" to ensure that the Field Artillery achieves its full potential in the Ascendency of Fires. We must have a workable plan, we need a Roadmap.
Overview. The Roadmap charts a course to the future of fires. The reason for constructing the Roadmap is to assist leaders accomplish the critical task of fielding the FA of Army XXI, and developing the FA of the Army After Next. Mapping is an iterative process, and the Field Artillery Roadmap is no exception. It is a living, analytically supported decision aid which will be revised as new factors impacting modernization become known through analysis and experimentation. Unlike previous master plans and azimuths which once completed became end results, the Roadmap project will be on-going, a useful tool for decision makers in the years to come.
The Roadmap helps focus the development of FA concepts and future operational capabilities. It guides and provides conceptual input to the integrated concept teams (ICTs). More important, the Roadmap is a planning construct for combat and training developments across the domains of doctrine, training, leader development, organization, materiel, and soldiers (DTLOMS). The Roadmap gives equal treatment to each of the DTLOMS domains. Note: the FA Roadmap contains a seventh domain of simulations. Simulations play a vital role in all the DTLOMS, and so for the purpose of the Roadmap, DTLOMS has taken on an extra S for Simulations, i.e. DTLOMSS.
The Roadmap consists of three parts. The first part is what you see on this Web Page, i.e. a periodically updated compilation of FA assessments, insights and issues, future capabilities, and developmental thrust lines with critical paths - across the DTLOMSS. The second part is a comprehensive, automated data base which ultimately will be available on the Internet. This data base contains all that
we know about FA modernization and future developments, e.g. mission need statements (MNS), operational requirements documents
(ORD), related briefings, and other documentation, etc. It also contains information formerly published in the FA Redbook. The third part
The Ascendency of Fires. 1994 marked the beginning of a far-reaching endeavor to envision America's Artillery in the year 2020. The result of this effort, Vision 2020, offers intriguing insights into the powerful synergy existing between technological advances and future warfighting concepts. It describes the development of long range, precision artillery to a place of increased importance in the combined arms dynamic - in essence, the evolution toward an Ascendency of Fires.