A New Concept for Streamlining Up-Front Planning

Abstract

Most observers of U.S. military affairs agree that the process within the Department of Defense (DoD) of enhancing U.S. military capability-or modernizing-involves an inordinate amount of time and energy. The length of time between formulating a concept to enhance military capability and realizing enhanced capability in U.S. operational forces averages 10 to 15 years. The enormous paper trail involves a great deal of 'square filling'. Finally, the process suffers from various disruptive instabilities, in part because of a lack of communication and trust between disparate elements of DoD and among DoD industry, and the Congress. We propose a framework that will substantially streamline the process by which DoD modernizes military capability. The framework focuses on streamlining the part of the process often referred to as 'up-front' planning. This planning is akin to Phase 0 which begins at Milestone 0 when an authority mandates that a particular military mission deserves increased emphasis and ends at Milestone I when a decision is made to develop and procure new systems that will equip force elements to enhance military capability

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA282347

Entities

People

  • David E. Thaler
  • Glenn A. Kent

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Boost Phase
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Composite Materials
  • Defense Planning
  • Department Of Defense
  • Emerging Technology
  • Employment
  • Engineering
  • Military Capabilities
  • Personnel Management
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Theater Ballistic Missiles
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Systems Analysis and Design