Naval Analytical Capabilities Improving Capabilities-Based Planning (2005) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
Pages 14-20
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in conventional warfare scenarios, the United States must be prepared to respond to a larger number of more diverse scenarios with varied attributes and to do so in circumstances involving complex and uncertain risks. There has always been uncertainty about threats to U.S.
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Antecedents of Capabilities-Based Planning It is not new to the DOD to assess varied aggregations of different types of military units for use in a wide range of circumstances so that decision makers can decide how best to allocate resources among them. Nor is the concept of assessing "how much is enough" (i.e., the magnitude of capability at which decision makers believe that the risks in the given area are tolerable and that additional resources should instead be applied to a different area)
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to be a credible participant in the larger DOD arena, in which capabilitiesbased planning is the primary process that the Secretary of Defense is currently using to guide and assess Service program proposals. Moreover, as noted above, external demands on the DOD and continuing technological changes with the promise of new opportunities will require good capabilities-based planning and analysis to assist many future CNOs, secretaries of the Department of the Navy, and secretaries of the Department of Defense.
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Part of this lack of consensus arises from trying to integrate the former, somewhat independent decision processes for (1) overall resource allocation (programming and budgeting)
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The enterprise operations referred to above are roughly the same as the activities that a report by a previous Naval Studies Board committee called the infrastructure in its broadest sense, as defined by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (i.e., all activities that provide support or control from fixed bases of operation) .5 According to that report, the Navy infrastructure accounts for about 40 percent of Navy resources, compared with about 30 percent for Navy modernization (research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDT&E)
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If some parts of manpower, personnel, communications, and other support activities cannot be directly related to the needs of current or future combatant commanders or to the DOD's ability to implement missions assigned to it by the President, they should be candidates for possible reduction or elimination. There are also other reasons for using capabilities-based planning and analysis to address critical support functions.
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The committee also offers some recommendations as to what the Navy should do to improve its contributions to important joint defense capabilities and the related process. Chapter 5 addresses additional inputs and assessment areas that could not be covered within the committee's limited work plan and that could be of benefit to the Navy in improving its analytical activities and capabilities-based planning.
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