F130- TAA

Question 1

What is the key Army force structure requirements and resourcing determination process?

Answer 1

TAA

Question 2

What process determines the best mix of affordable, organizational solutions for future needs based on requirements and constraints?

Answer 2

TAA

Question 3

What are the phases of TAA?

Answer 3

➢ Quantitative (Capability Demand Analysis)
➢ Qualitative (Resourcing)
➢ Synchronization (Force Synchronization Review)

Question 4

What are the two key TAA products?

Answer 4

POM force and ARSTRUC memorandum.

Question 5

What are the Army’s two primary authorization documents?

Answer 5

MTOEs (Operational Force)
TDAs (Generating Force)

Question 6

What is the TAA historical record of ASL (Army Senior Leader) decisions and details all changes to the force?

Answer 6

ARSTRUC memorandum

Question 7

TAA provides the basis for ___ development and establishment of the ___ _____ across all three COMPOs.

Answer 7

POM
POM force

Question 8

Who are the key ASL (Army Senior Leader) stakeholders?

Answer 8

SECARMY, Under Secretary of the Army, CSA, VCSA, (SMA)

Question 9

What are the 8 key influencers of TAA?

Answer 9

1. Strategic Guidance
2. Army Senior Leadership
3. OSD and Joint Staff
4. Combatant and Army Commands
5. Quantitative Analysis (Scenarios and Modeling)
6. Legislative Decisions and Initiatives
7. Future Operating Concepts / Required Capabilities
8. CAC LSCO / MDO Gaps Analysis

Question 10

What organization documents the decisions of TAA?

Answer 10

United States Army Force Management Support Agency (USAFMSA)

Question 11

What is a UIC- and EDATE-specific, resource-informed AUTHORIZATION document derived from a TOE called?

Answer 11

MTOE

Question 12

What is an AUTHORIZATION document that is not based on a TOE called?

Answer 12

TDA

Question 13

What 4 things does the MTOE contain?

Answer 13

➢Deployable, operating forces
➢Soldiers
➢Designed for wartime functions
➢Generic, capabilities-based

Question 14

What 4 things does the TDA contain?

Answer 14

➢Non-deployable, generating forces
➢Soldiers or civilians
➢Designed for peacetime or wartime functions
➢Local workload-based

Question 15

The MTOE “modifies” the TOE by adding the ____________ quantities of personnel and
equipment.

Answer 15

authorized (resourced)

Question 16

TOEs prescribe the function, organization, personnel, and equipment __________ to perform a __________, wartime mission.

Answer 16

required
tactical

Question 17

TDAs record the function, organization, personnel, and equipment required to perform ___________ missions.

Answer 17

non-tactical

Question 18

The TDA is used when a TOE ____ ___ _____; they are typically based on local or ____________ force needs.

Answer 18

does not exist
generating

Question 19

TDAs records personnel and equipment _____________ based upon a command’s allocation of resources.

Answer 19

authorizations

Question 20

What document can also record equipment allocated to other military services, government agencies, and contractors.

Answer 20

TDA

Question 21

Who manages “spaces”?

Answer 21

Army G-3 does manpower management

Question 22

Who manages “faces”?

Answer 22

Army G-1 does personnel management

Question 23

TAA untimately determines what?

Answer 23

organizational authorizations (capabilities the Army will resource)

Question 24

Who is the approval authority for the future Army force?

Answer 24

SECARMY

Question 25

What are the 2 main resourcing constraints?

Answer 25

end strength (size) funding limits

Question 26

TAA is the decision process that moves the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) process from _________ into _______________.

Answer 26

planning programming

Question 27

TAA determines what is added to, changed within, and divested from the existing force structure over time and within resourcing limitations to provide the best mix of future Army __________ to __________ _____________.

Answer 27

capabilities combatant commanders

Question 28

What is phase 1 of TAA?

Answer 28

Quantitative Analysis (Capability Demand Analysis) (scientific: data, formulas, algorithms, etc.)

Question 29

What is phase 2 of TAA?

Answer 29

Qualitative Analysis (resourcing)- analysis the Army uses to decide resourcing of the capability demand requirements to produce an approved Program Objective Memorandum force (“POM force”).

Question 30

What is phase 3 of TAA?

Answer 30

Synchronization (Force synchronization review / The Integration Analysis)- the Army analyzes the synchronization of changes required to implement the POM Force structure

Question 31

Who signs the decision memorandum that approves the POM Force?

Answer 31

SECARMY

Question 32

The POM Force approval memo is later codified in the ____________.

Answer 32

ARSTRUC

Question 33

The ___ _______ represents the outcomes of analysis that serve to justify the resourcing needed for an affordable force capable of best supporting national goals and combatant commanders’ capability requirements

Answer 33

POM force

Question 34

What typically marks the end of the TTA cycle?

Answer 34

The ARSTRUC publication

Question 35

Who is the agency that develops and produces both requirements and authorizations documents within the Force Management System (FMS)?

Answer 35

United States Army Force Management Support Agency (USAFMSA)

Question 36

_______ are authorizations documents detailing personnel and equipment for deployable, operating forces – fundamentally defining our wartime capacity.

Answer 36

MTOEs

Question 37

Once the Army makes force structure resourcing decisions, the Army announces those decisions in the __________ and uses the _____ _______ to program the costs of those decisions into the POM.

Answer 37

ARSTRUC POM force

Question 38

The ___________ defines the structure of the force in the future and the _____ feeds the requests to fund that structure to DOD.

Answer 38

ARSTRUC POM

Question 39

Describe the purpose of TAA.

Answer 39

TAA determines the best balance of required force structure within a resource-constrained environment the build the future Army that will meet DoD and Army strategic guidance and support CCDR requirements.

Question 39

What are the inputs to the Capability Demand Analysis phase of TAA?

Answer 39

- NMS - NDS - Resource Constraints - Directed Force - Vignettes - Defense Planning Guidance - Joint Force Operating Scenarios - Execution Orders - Training & Doctrine Force Design input - Program Directive Memorandum

Question 40

What are COMPOs 1, 2, & 3?

Answer 40

1- Active Army 2- Army National Guard 3- Arm Reserve

Question 41

What does the ARSTRUC do?

Answer 41

Outlines the operating & generating force structure for the next 2 - 7 years

Question 42

Which organization is the HQDA G3 lead for documenting the Army?

Answer 42

USAFMSA

Question 43

Define POM Force.

Answer 43

The future force that the Army has agreed to resource.

Question 44

Who are the primary decision makers (civilian and uniformed) in TAA?

Answer 44

SECARMY & CSA