A Composite Approach to Air Force Planning
A Composite Approach to Air Force Planning

Author: Paul K. Davis

Publisher: RAND Corporation

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780833024336

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After the 1996 Presidential election, the Department of Defense (DoD) will probably conduct a major review of national military strategy and the current basis of force planning, the Bottom-Up Review. In preparation for this review, what issues should the Air Force consider, what planning methods should be brought to bear, and when? The authors address these questions and note that there is no single best planning method. Different methods focus on and deal with different generic planning activities, and no method stands alone or constitutes a complete methodology. If undertaken by creative minds, most of the techniques discussed here will do a good job for the Air Force (and for the DoD more generally). But it is particularly important to allow and encourage participants to break the shackles of conventional wisdom--not only about current realities, but about what the nature of the future will be, about what "good" strategic planners are "supposed" to assume about the future, and what types and levels of forces are allegedly "required."

Development Planning
Development Planning

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2014-11-10

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 0309313686

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The development and application of technology has been an essential part of U.S. airpower, leading to a century of air supremacy. But that developmental path has rarely been straight, and it has never been smooth. Only the extraordinary efforts of exceptional leadership - in the Air Forces and the wider Department of Defense, in science and in industry - have made the triumphs of military airpower possible. Development Planning provides recommendations to improve development planning for near-term acquisition projects, concepts not quite ready for acquisition, corporate strategic plans, and training of acquisition personnel. This report reviews past uses of development planning by the Air Force, and offers an organizational construct that will help the Air Force across its core functions. Developmental planning, used properly by experienced practitioners, can provide the Air Force leadership with a tool to answer the critical question, Over the next 20 years in 5-year increments, what capability gaps will the Air Force have that must be filled? Development planning will also provide for development of the workforce skills needed to think strategically and to defectively define and close the capability gap. This report describes what development planning could be and should be for the Air Force.

A Composite Approach to Air Force Planning
A Composite Approach to Air Force Planning

Author: Paul K. Davis

Publisher: RAND Corporation

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9780833024336

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After the 1996 Presidential election, the Department of Defense (DoD) will probably conduct a major review of national military strategy and the current basis of force planning, the Bottom-Up Review. In preparation for this review, what issues should the Air Force consider, what planning methods should be brought to bear, and when? The authors address these questions and note that there is no single best planning method. Different methods focus on and deal with different generic planning activities, and no method stands alone or constitutes a complete methodology. If undertaken by creative minds, most of the techniques discussed here will do a good job for the Air Force (and for the DoD more generally). But it is particularly important to allow and encourage participants to break the shackles of conventional wisdom--not only about current realities, but about what the nature of the future will be, about what "good" strategic planners are "supposed" to assume about the future, and what types and levels of forces are allegedly "required."

Preparing for the Future
Preparing for the Future

Author: Michael Barzelay

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2003-07-31

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0815796072

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While the Clinton Administration and federal agencies were busy making government cost less and work better in the near-term, the United States Air Force was regularly visualizing the competencies needed to assure the organization's long-term effectiveness. As a result of steady efforts to prepare for the future conducted under successive secretaries and chiefs of staff, the Air Force has developed a distinctive approach to strategic planning. This approach is fundamentally concerned with ensuring that the organization's future capabilities support effective performance of future tasks. Such tasks are shaped by ever-changing policy objectives and circumstances of implementation. After eight years, the Air Force has not only successfully refined its distinctive approach to strategic planning, but has also leveraged change in programmatic decisions, human resource management, and operational technologies. This study provides an inside look at how the Air Force came to formulate and declare its "strategic intent" for developing the organization's capabilities over a timeline of more than twenty years. Air Force strategic intent is not a plan, but a shared commitment to strengthening specific core competencies and critical future capabilities. Michael Barzelay and Colin Campbell reveal how one of the nation's most significant public organizations has reassessed its own strategic intent. Drawing lessons from the Air Force experience, this book provides a significant contribution to public management research on innovation and executive leadership. One key lesson is that preparing for the future is a responsibility that organizations can discharge effectively if they combine insights with practical knowledge of executive leadership and the dynamics of policy change. Preparing for the Future provides a fresh argument about innovation and leadership in public management, while breaking new ground in the analysis of managerial practices, such as strategic v

New Concept Development
New Concept Development

Author: Leslie Lewis

Publisher: RAND Corporation

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780833024787

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In early 1995, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force determined that the Air Force needed to strengthen its corporate planning capabilities. The planning function had to link strongly to the critical Department of Defense resource allocation and management processes, such as the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System, the Joint Warfighting Capability Assessment and the Joint Requirements Oversight Council, the service requirements processes, and the acquisition processes. RAND was asked by the Air Force to assist in defining a new concept development framework and process that could support Air Force long range planning. While long range planning focused on defining a corporate vision and strategic planning, concept development was to focus on the generation of new ideas and their incorporation into Air Force planning and programming activities. RAND addressed how the new-concept development process supports Air Force planning. It also identified the various elements of new-concept development and proposed ideas for how the Air Force might proceed with institutionalizing the framework and process. This report discusses the elements of new-concept development, makes some suggestions for how the Air Force might organizationally and functionally support such an effort, and provides some top-level recommendations on how it might implement the process.

Defence Planning for Small and Middle Powers
Defence Planning for Small and Middle Powers

Author: Tim Sweijs

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-08-01

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1040098584

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This book examines the processes, practices and principles of defence planning in small and middle powers. Small and middle powers are recalibrating their force postures in this age of disruption. They are adapting their defence planning and military innovation processes to protect the security of their nations. The purpose of this book is to explore defence planning and military innovation in 11 contemporary case studies of small and middle powers in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania. Employing a structured focused comparison framework, it traces patterns in the choices of small and middle powers across the following themes: (1) alliances, dependencies and national ambitions; (2) approaches, processes, methods and techniques; and (3) military innovation strategies and outcomes. Breaking new theoretical ground, it offers a three-pronged typology distinguishing between the strategic defence planner, the transactional defence planners and the complacent defence planner. The book offers a rich array of insights into cases that fall across different geographies, strategic cultures and governance systems. These insights can help guide discussions on how to structure decision-making structures, arrive at ambition levels, formulate priorities, select partners and design defence planning and military innovation processes. This book will be of much interest to students of defence studies, security studies, public policy and international relations, as well as to professionals in defence planning.