Coalition Warfare

Abstract

Current U.S. military strategy and the global security environment make coalition warfare and multinational operations fundamental features of the U.S. national security strategy. Coalitions provide a broad base of technological, operational, and logistical support for military operations and ease the U.S. financial and manpower burdens associated with meeting military goals and objectives. U.S. strategic guidance confirms that coalitions and relationships with international partners are high priorities for the nation and the Department of Defense. The Coalition Warfare Program (CWP) responds to this guidance while striving to deliver new and improved capabilities to the warfighter. CWP provides seed funding to DoD organizations to conduct cooperative research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) projects with foreign government partners. It is the only Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) program dedicated to initiating cooperative RDT&E projects with allied and partner nations. CWP seed funding is leveraged against funding from other U.S. government sponsors and foreign partners. In its twelve-year history, CWP has leveraged $3.1 of other U.S. funding for every $1 it has invested in cooperative projects and $4.4 of foreign partner funding for every $1 investment. CWP projects enable Project Teams to move a technology into the next stage of development or prepare for transition to operational forces. These projects may also form the basis for future cooperation with our international partners. CWP projects support DoD acquisition by helping program offices convert U.S.-only projects into coalition solutions for the U.S. warfighter, influencing coalition interoperability in major programs that will have far-reaching use by U.S. forces, addressing requirements of combined operations early in a program’s development cycle to avert risks to joint/coalition operations and avoid costs associated with adding requirements later in the acquisition process, enabling U.S. DoD access to leading-edge global technology, and providing significant cost savings to the DoD while maintaining a strong research and development base.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2014
• Source ID: 0603923D8Z_4_0400_PB_2014
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2014 decrease was due to funding other higher priority programs within AT&L.
• Service Agency Name: Office of Secretary Of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Autonomy
• C4I
• Electronic Warfare
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Human Systems
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Department Of Defense
• Detection
• Detectors
• Energy Harvesting
• Frequency
• Frequency Bands
• Government (Foreign)
• Governments
• Management Personnel
• Maritime Domain Awareness
• Microelectromechanical Systems
• Military Operations
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Unified Combatant Commands
• Warfare

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• Defense Technology Research and Development.
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.