Service Responses to the Emergence of Joint Decisionmaking

by Lewis, Leslie; Brown, Roger Allen; Roll, Robert C.

• ISBN13: 9780833030696
• ISBN10: 0833030698
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-25
• Publisher: RAND Corporation

Summary

An assessment of the manner in which the services have altered their planning, programming, and budgeting processes in response to the changes brought about bu the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols legislation.

Table of Contents

Preface	iii
Figures	vii
Summary	ix
Acknowledgments	xix
Abbreviations	xxi
Introduction	1	(12)
Background	1	(1)
Analytic Approach	2	(2)
The PPBS and Acquisition Processes	4	(1)
Planning Phase	5	(2)
Programming Phase	7	(1)
Budgeting Phase	7	(1)
The DoD Acquisition Process	8	(3)
Organization of the Report	11	(2)
Goldwater-Nichols and Acquisition Reform Legislation	13	(8)
The Legislation	13	(3)
Reorganization of the Acquisition Function	16	(5)
Implementation and Evolution of the Current Decisionmaking Processes, 1986--1999	21	(12)
CJCS and Joint Staff Evolution	22	(6)
Integration of OSD, Joint Staff, and CINC Activities	28	(5)
Army Decisionmaking Processes	33	(16)
Army Planning and Programming	35	(2)
Army Reengineering Initiatives	37	(6)
Status of Reengineering Efforts	43	(6)
Navy Decisionmaking Processes	49	(12)
Assessment and Recent Changes	58	(3)
Air Force Reorganization, 1989--2000	61	(20)
Current Air Force Planning and Programming Activities	69	(3)
Assessment and Update	72	(5)
Air Force Resource Allocation Process	77	(4)
Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations	81	(10)
References	91