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Integrity - Service - Excellence
Meeting Strategic Challenges:
Balancing Capabilities With Priorities
Lt Gen David Deptula
Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence,
Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
20 Jan 2010
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A 20th Century Vision from 1996:
Joint Vision 2010
Information, network-based concepts enabled the U.S. to
rapidly achieve military objectives in three conflicts and
respond to crises globally in days vice months …
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21st Century Challenges
Changing Alliances
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Balancing the Challenges
 Organizations
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Jointness
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Interdependence
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Organizations
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Entering 2010 with organizational
structures and processes based on the
environments and challenges of
1947…
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Faced with the challenges of an
information age
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Jointness
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Allows a JFC to select and tailor the right service
component core competencies that match mission
requirements
Jointness is NOT:
 Using equal force, every place, all the time
 Equal shares of the “action” or “resources”
 Homogeneity among the services …
Jointness is about having the flexibility to put the
right force mix, at the right place, at the right time for
a particular contingency
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Interdependence
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With rising national security challenges and likely
decreasing defense purchasing power, each service
must act in concert with one another …
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Excessive duplication of effort among the services is
unaffordable:
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Breeds inefficiency
Promotes multiple, redundant concepts of operations
Creates seams, friction, and disintegration
De-synchronizes execution processes
Where a single Service attempts warfighting independence
rather than interdependence, jointness unravels
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Domains & Environments:
A cautionary note…
REGULAR
AIR
SPACE
CATASTROPHIC
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IRREGULAR
CYBERSPACE
GROUND
MARITIME
DISRUPTIVE
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Domains & Environments:
A cautionary note…
PERMISSIVE
AIR
SPACE
CYBERSPACE
CONTESTED
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GROUND
MARITIME
DENIED
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Balancing Focus
Near-term
Near-term
Mid-term
Mid-term
Long-term
 Advanced DRFM
 Long Range AAMs
 SA-21
 Chinese Manned
Space Program
 Revitalized Russian
Mil Space Program
 Nanotechnology
 Biometrics
Must Guard Against the Focus on Today
Obscuring the Strategic Challenges of Tomorrow
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Headquarters U.S. Air Force
Integrity - Service - Excellence
The Balanced Force:
Capabilities and Priorities
Lt Gen David Deptula
Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence,
Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
20 Jan 2010
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