Defense Governance and Management: Improving the Defense Management Capabilities of Foreign Defense Institutions - A Guide to Capability-Based Planning (CBP)
Abstract
Capability Based Planning (CBP) is a force planning process that analyzes a broad range of threats and challenges and aligns defense budgets to defense policy. Developing armed forces through capability creates a future force optimized toward tackling a large number of prioritized threats instead of a small number of specific threats. Capability is the product of a set of components (e.g., personnel, training, equipment, and facilities). These components facilitate the force development processes of program planning and budget planning (i.e., tie capability to budget). The CBP prerequisites are the accepted definition capability and its components, an empowered senior leader who has a dedicated planning staff with analytic capability, a joint planning culture, strategic guidance, scenarios, concepts, risk assessments, and a capability taxonomy or partition. A taxonomy or partition is a hierarchy that describes and categorizes the capabilities within a force structure and allows analysts to match capabilities with the units of the armed forces structure. Nations beginning to implement CBP will often run into year zero problems due to their lack of the prerequisites. IDA proposes a three-phase CBP process, the first of which directly addresses the development of the CBP prerequisites.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 2019
- Accession Number
- AD1122378
Entities
People
- Aaron C. Taliaferro
- Lina M. Gonzalez
- Mark Tillman
- Paul Clarke
- Pritha Ghosh
- Wade Hinkle
Organizations
- Institute for Defense Analyses