OPERATIONS PLAN

Operations Plan



Operations Plan

1-1 Introduction

The Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) mandates the process for developing new military capabilities. The capabilities based analysis (CBA) is the first step in the JCIDS process. A necessary precursor to beginning the CBA is a conceptual framework that describes how the United States (U.S.) Army will conduct mission operations in the future and identifies the associated far term required capabilities. A concept capability plan (CCP) establishes this future framework and its required capabilities. The CCP is the most descriptive of the Army concept formats.

An integrated capabilities development team (ICDT) was chartered by the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC) to develop TRADOC Pam 525-7-19. The ICDT must ascertain the existence of both a commonly understood and accepted conceptual framework for future Army combating weapons of mass destruction (CWMD) operations and a set of required Army CWMD capabilities that are specific enough to inform possible CBAs for CWMD. This chapter presents the ICDT analysis and findings leading them to conclude that a CWMD CCP is necessary.

1-2 Analysis of Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Concept Capabilities Plan (CCP) Need

The CWMD ICDT performed an analysis to determine whether existing joint and Army concepts and National strategy provide a sufficient conceptual framework for identifying future CWMD required capabilities. The analysis consisted of three main efforts.

Literature search. ICDT subject matter experts (SMEs) reviewed national, joint, Army, and other documents providing CWMD or CWMD related guidance, concepts, and required capabilities. The document research included authoritative sources describing the future joint operating environment (JOE). The literature search also included mining the online capabilities needs analysis database. Appendix A lists all significant documents and other sources reviewed during the literature search. Appendix B provides additional detail on literature search findings.

The chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) seminar.

The second main effort was a weeklong seminar in January 2008, involving senior CBRN unit commanders and staff and representatives from other ICDT member organizations. In this seminar, limited in scope to CWMD missions not in the homeland, the SMEs discussed future CWMD concepts and required capabilities. The main purpose of this seminar was to inform CWMD CCP development.

Army support to civil authorities seminar. The third effort was a weeklong seminar in April 2008, similar to the CBRN seminar but examining only Army support to civil authorities in homeland weapons of mass destruction (WMD) consequence management (CM) and other homeland emergency response missions.

1-3 CWMD CCP Need Analysis Findings

The literature search and CBRN seminar revealed that some of the conceptual detail required to support far term required capabilities analysis for CWMD is already in place. However, there is no published Army concept, specifically focused on CWMD, treating the subject in a holistic manner and providing an approved, integrated conceptual basis upon which to analyze future required capabilities.

National CWMD strategy. The two published national strategies most specifically dealing with CWMD are the National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction and the National Military Strategy to ...