The Military Missions and Means Framework

Abstract

As the Department of Defense (DoD) transforms itself from a forces-based, materiel-centric Cold War posture to a capabilities-based, mission-centric asymmetric-warfare posture, it is increasingly vital that military planners, operators, and analysts concern themselves not only with doing things right (i.e., the technical architecture) but also with doing the right things (i.e., the operational architecture). Moreover, the historic right thing of winning the large-scale conventional engagements in Europe has given way to multiple and diverse right things of unconventional combat, homeland defense, peacekeeping missions, and various kinds of military operations other than war (MOOTW). To address these complex new objectives, a framework is needed to comprehensively organize and rigorously specify operational purposes and goals and then explicitly relate, map, and allocate them to the proposed technical means for accomplishment. This paper describes the fundamental elements and usage of the military Missions and Means Framework (MMF), which is increasingly being used to represent the synthesis of military operations and the employment of materiel/forces to accomplish these operations. The MMF provides a disciplined procedure for implementing the transformation guidance in Rumsfeld (2003) and Chu (2003) and the acquisition reform promulgated in Wolfowitz (2003a, 2003b) and Myers (2003).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA428445

Entities

People

  • Alexander B. Wong
  • Britt E. Bray
  • Bruce A. Harris
  • Jack H. Sheehan
  • Paul H. Deitz

Organizations

  • United States Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Classification
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Employment
  • Information Systems
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • Personnel Management
  • Security
  • Surveillance
  • Systems Engineering
  • Task Forces
  • Technical Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Warfare

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.