Coalition Warfare
Abstract
The Coalition Warfare Program (CWP) is dedicated to initiating cooperative research and development (R&D) projects with allies and coalition partners. The goal of the effort is to assist the Combatant Commands, Services, and Agencies with integrating coalition-enabling solutions into existing and planned U.S. programs. This adds value to the Department's security cooperation strategy through collaborative development of warfighter capabilities to enhance operations of U.S. and coalition forces. Cooperative efforts with likely coalition partners are needed to close interoperability gaps including those related to battlespace awareness, C4ISR, joint fires, intelligence fusion and data sharing, combat identification, logistics, weapon systems, and information sharing. Moreover, these small investments early in the R&D process yield large dividends and allow for sustainable coalition enabled U.S. systems. The OSD CWP encourages Combatant Commands, Services, Defense Agencies and OSD to involve friendly countries in development projects to meet coalition requirements that would otherwise not be realized. Partner nations participate to the extent permitted by security considerations (classified data and critical technology), when such partnering is advantageous to the U.S. Government and necessary in terms of security cooperation and regional threat scenarios. The Combatant Commands, Services, Defense Agencies, and OSD nominate candidate projects on an annual basis. These projects are funded for one to two years. The Program selects projects based on their compatibility with established criteria, which are based on DoD priorities (e.g. CONPLAN 7500, the OSD Building Partnerships Strategic Plan, the Combatant Commanders' Integrated Priority Lists), Joint Staff specified needs and requirements, equitable contributions from international partners, potential for transitions, portability across the regional and functional Combatant Commands, responsiveness to USD (AT&L) priorities for international armaments cooperation, and contributing to shaping operations and stability.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- P923_0603923D8Z_4_0400_PB_2011
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