Analytic Architecture for Capabilities-based Planning, Mission-system Analysis, and Transformation

Analytic Architecture for Capabilities-based Planning, Mission-system Analysis, and Transformation
ISBN-10
0833031554
ISBN-13
9780833031556
Category
Architecture
Pages
74
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society
Author
Paul K. Davis

Description

Capabilities-based planning has become a central theme of defense planning. It is defined in broad terms in the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review, but opinions differ about its details and how to implement it. This book reviews and extends ideas developed over the last decade regarding capabilities-based planning. It puts capabilities-based planning in the larger context of defense activities generally, sketches an analytic architecture for carrying it out, and offers recommendations about how to proceed, including a suggested architecture that emphasizes mission-level work and such concepts as mission-system analysis, exploratory analysis, and hierarchical portfolio methods for integration and tradeoffs in an economical framework. Capabilities-based planning is related to the objective of transforming U.S. forces to deal effectively with the changes taking place in military affairs. The book also emphasizes that the new paradigm of capabilities-based planning is particularly apt given the objective of transforming U.S. forces to deal effectively with the changes taking place in military affairs.

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