Joint Commanders and Budget Authority

Abstract

This paper analyzes the status of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) which was established in 1987 with the unique authority, under Major Force Program-11 (MFP-11), to prepare its own budget and procure special forces peculiar equipment. This authority is only given to USSOCOM and no other combantant command. The other unified and specified commands are funded by the services. The process they use is the Programming, Planning and Budget System (PPBS) which allows them to input their requirements to the services via an Integrated Priority List (IPL). This process has greatly changed since the enactment of the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986. These changes are reviewed and the new process is studied using the Army system as a model. The questions answered in the study are: first - Is MFP-11 working with USSOCOM? Second - Should the other combatant commands have similar authority?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA262035

Entities

People

  • Lawrence C. Crockett

Organizations

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Acquisition
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Department Of Defense
  • Military Budgets
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Procurement
  • Public Administration
  • Security
  • Special Operations Forces
  • Tilt Rotor Aircraft
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • United States Special Operations Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control