The Next Step for Special Operations: Getting the Resources to Do the Job
Abstract
Recommendations are made to give the reorganized Special Operations community sufficient control over its resources to meet its responsibilities. Recent legislation mandating a new organization for managing Special Operations forces and the resulting responsibilities of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict) ASD(SO/LIC) and the Commander in Chief, United States Special Operations Command (CINCSOC) are discussed. Options for meeting these responsibilities through the Planning Programming and Budgeting System (PPBS) and acquisition system are considered and a preferred option recommended. The preferred option is for the CINC(SOC) to prepare a Program Objectives Memorandum, budget for special-operations-peculiar items and services, and establish an organization for acquiring special-operations- peculiar items and services. Changes in the current systems and procedures necessary for implementing this option should be coordinated by the ASD(SO/LIC). Relevant sections of Public Law are given and the salient features of the current PPBS and acquisition system are explicated. Keywords: Defense acquisition.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA206262
Entities
People
- David V. Glass
- Harrell B. Altizer
- James E. Giles Iii
- Martin L. Kestenbaum
- Robert W. Parker
Organizations
- LMI