Establishing a Community of Interest (COI) for Global Force Management
Abstract
The objective for Global Force Management (GFM) is to establish a transparent and universal process to manage, assess and display the worldwide disposition of US forces. This includes US force availability, readiness and capability in order to assess the risks associated with proposed allocation, assignment and apportionment options. Fundamental to GFM and foundational to transformation is the GFM Data Initiative (GFM DI), which addresses organizing force structure data in a joint hierarchal way for integration across Service lines. To address the GFM data problem, provide the data in network centric environment, and manage the data, a Community of Interest (COI), as described in the Net Centric Data Strategy1 (NCDS), was established in the summer of 2003. The GFM COI is co-chaired by the Joint Staff, Force Structure, Resources, and Assessment Directorate (J-8) and the Office of the Under-Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (USD(P&R)). The GFM COI is a governing body now implementing a set of organization servers, maintained by OSD, the Services, and the Joint community, that will provide high resolution, default force structure data for a diverse set of users. This paper describes some of the challenges encountered during the establishment, evolution, and first 18 months of operation of a COI. Not surprisingly, a COI is not a magical solution and it does not displace the difficult task and extensive intellectual efforts required to establish agreements among diverse users of data, even when the data set is restricted.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA463911
Entities
People
- George Sprung
- Mike Boller
- Sam Chamberlain
- Victor Badami
Organizations
- United States Army Research Laboratory