The approaches to strategic management of defense resources: the US experience

• Vladislav Sotnyk

  Central Scientific Research Institute of Armament and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

• Viktoriia Sotnyk

  National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

• Sergii Kutsak

  Center for Military and Strategic Studies of the National Defense University of Ukraine

• Oleksandr Nikolaichuk

  Center for Military and Strategic Studies of the National Defense University of Ukraine

The article argues that for effective management of defense resources, it is necessary to coordinate strategic priorities with the general system of defense resource management and public finances. Attention is focused on the fact that in the USA several levels of such coordination are distinguished: the initial, level of direct regulation and control, the level of structural regulation and efficiency assessment. It is revealed that the process of reforming public finance management in the USA faces a number of problems, in particular, coordination of goals, responsible parties, adjustment of the public finance management process itself and, if necessary, its alignment. Therefore, it is the defense strategy and action planning that allows achieving the desired results. The article examines that it is strategic resource management that makes it possible to form a plan to achieve goals, ensure comparison of goals and desired results, assess all priorities and risks and also establish responsibility. Regarding defense planning, it is noted that it is important to bridge the gap between resources and planners who develop a joint strategy for the future capabilities of the armed forces and state financial authorities, which should allow translating this plan into reality. Enhanced coordination of relationships and different views on resource provision processes is possible through decentralization, i.e. the transfer of some powers (authorities) to lower organizational levels, in particular by fiscal and administrative methods. The main areas of improvement of strategic resource provision are identified, among which the following can be distinguished: development of better models for: assessment and management of risks, design of necessary capabilities / results to support them, assessment of necessary input resources and their cost and measurement of the effectiveness of results. In addition, attention is focused on what needs to be continued or improved: search for the most effective ways (cost of input resources used to produce a finished ship) to provide capabilities, monitoring of productivity, flexibility of «solutions», connection of data and systems to provide information.

1. Vladislav Sotnyk, Central Scientific Research Institute of Armament and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

   кандидат технічних наук, старший науковий співробітник

2. Viktoriia Sotnyk, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

   Candidate of Economics Sciences Associate Professors of Department of Management Named after Professor J. S. Zavadskyi

3. Sergii Kutsak, Center for Military and Strategic Studies of the National Defense University of Ukraine

   Leading Researcher

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