Petroleum Executive Agency - A Forcing Function for Jointness

Abstract

Jointness is the essential capability that sets the U.S. military apart from all others. Interoperable and interdependent Services enable the Combatant Commander to choose from a vast array of capabilities to achieve the desired effects. This is true in Combat, Combat Support as well as in Combat Service Support roles. The National Military Strategy states that Defeating adaptive adversaries requires flexible, modular and deployable joint forces with the ability to combine the strengths of individual Services, combatant commands, other government agencies and multinational partners. Joint forces will require new levels of interoperability and systems that are born joint, i.e. conceptualized and designed with joint architectures and acquisition strategies. While our military can fight as a joint team, significant barriers stand in the way of efficiency and effectiveness. The challenge for the future is to eliminate, or at least reduce the effects of the obstacles and gain the synergy that jointness brings to the battlefield. The Department of Defense (DoD) Transformation Planning Guidance made Strengthening Joint Operations as one of the four pillars of defense transformation. The DoD seeks to guide the transformation of the Services and DoD itself on the path to jointness through the Joint Operating Concepts, the supporting Joint Operations Concepts and Joint Functional Concepts. One of the tools DoD established to facilitate this process is Executive Agency (EA). Properly executed, use of an EA can be a powerful tool in promoting jointness among the Services. This paper will lay a foundation by examining the conceptual underpinnings of EA and the changes resulting from Department of Defense Directive 5101.1, DoD Executive Agent. It will then examine DoDD 5101.8, Executive Agent for Bulk Petroleum identifying significant changes that affect the Services and DoD.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 18, 2005
Accession Number
ADA431952

Entities

People

  • Dan D. Jennings Iii

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Air Force
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Department Of Defense
  • Executives
  • Information Systems
  • Iraqi-War
  • Materials
  • Military Science
  • Military Training
  • Nato
  • Standards
  • Training
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.