Is NAVSO Organized and Staffed to Do Its Job?

Abstract

The Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command (COMUSNAVSO), asked CNA for help. This new command, the Navy component command to U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), established in February 2000, had a staff cobbled together from various existing commands, which it in part replace, and no official manning review was involved in its inception. The focus of our study was on this question: Is NAVSO organized and staffed to do its job? To answer this question we had to understand NAVSO's job, organization (with a focus on its relationships in the administrative/Navy chain of control), and staff. As background to these efforts, we needed to look at the history of Navy component commands in the SOUTHCOM AOR. This work produced insights into the genesis of NAVSO and the form it took.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA408909

Entities

People

  • Brian E. Walsh
  • Elizabeth S. Young
  • Karen D. Smith
  • Patrick H. Roth
  • Stephen J. Kim

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Central America
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Command And Control
  • Databases
  • Employment
  • Geography
  • Manpower Utilization
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Vessels (Combatant)
  • Navy
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • South America
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Central Command
  • United States Southern Command
  • Warfare

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  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
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