Campaign Quality Gap: Developing Strategic Engineering Competency

Abstract

Recent policy developments in the Department of Defense (DOD) impose new and significant challenges for the Nation's strategic engineering directorate, the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). DOD Directive 3000.05 requires the Army to ensure specified programs and the quantity and quality of personnel needed for Stability, Security, Transition and Reconstruction Operations (SSTR) are developed, specifically engineers. Success in SSTR relies heavily on a highly competent Army engineering component. The Army will look to its transformation efforts and pentathlete" leader development model as significant steps in the right direction. This paper assesses these Army-level initiatives with respect to engineer officer leader development in order to determine if additional quantity and quality measures are required to successfully perform critical SSTR engineering tasks among other ongoing engineering priorities. Recommendations are provided to enhance the Army's overall SSTR engineering effectiveness while developing engineer leaders with campaign quality competence.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 30, 2007
Accession Number
ADA471317

Entities

People

  • Roger A. Wilson Jr.

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Base Closures
  • Combat Operations
  • Command And Control
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Foreign Languages
  • General Officers
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).