1. ADVANCED TACTICAL FM: Standing Up the JSF Budget Office VISION
COMMUNICATION
FLEXIBILITY
ADVANCED TACTICAL FM:
CREDIBILITY
RESOURCES
Standing Up the
JSF
Budget Office
I would like you to take away three things from this briefing today:
Gain a greater understanding of the 33d Fighter Wing’s mission and the capability of the Joint Strike Fighter, F-35
Appreciate some leadership attributes that I value and why I value them
Understand how we did it in the 33d FW Financial Management shop and how these attributes helped
Trust ( because of credibility)
Communication
Flexibility
-- A lot like a deployed environment, only with fewer people
Vision
Resources (not just money)
-- Mental Faculties
-- An Outstanding Team (is built, not made)
Determination (and a positive attitude)
Innovation
-- AFSO21 is your friend…seriously
Trailblazertand how the 33 FW budget office has tackled some unstructured problems in trying to bed down the new mission of the 33 FW
DETERMINATION
INNOVATION
GOAL SEEKING

2. F-35 Experience

6. VISION

7. 33d Fighter Wing Mission:
To develop, grow, and sustain the capability to deliver multinational F-35 operators and maintainers
VISION

8. 33d Fighter Wing Financial Management
Mission:
Provide world-class fiscal decision support and FM training to facilitate the future of the Air Force and its partners’ fifth-generation fighter aircraft inventory
VISION

9. 33d Fighter Wing Financial Management
Vision:
Transform for the future through technology, training, and innovative thinking
Field a team of caring, dedicated financial professionals
Accept only the very best in all we do
Develop, refine, and implement command-leading financial management practices and processes
VISION

10. 33d Fighter Wing Financial Management
What is Vision? How is it Created? Who Determines if it is Successful or Not?
VISION
Colonel Finley came into my office and told me the Marine Colonel, Colonel Sampsel was really upset (I had been on the job six weeks). Her Resource Advisor quit and it was my fault. And I had better fix it…fast.

11. COMMUNICATION

12. COMMUNICATION What does decision support mean to you?
How often should we be in front of our leadership?
What can we do to mitigate mission impacts and decisions made above our heads?
COMMUNICATION
Dining Facility was the Wing Commander’s Number One Priority (whether he knew it or not)

13. FLEXIBILITY

14. Flexibility Of what use is your ‘comfort zone?’
Just exactly what is ‘your lane?’
How can we add structure to the unstructured?
FLEXIBILITY
Unstructured environment/non-traditional use of Fmers
Almost like a deployed environment (only with fewer people)
UMD authorizations
Hiring freezes, redux during standing-up the wing
Host-tenant support (story about Civil Engineers)
Non-traditional environment (is it joint? Is it collocated? Is it something else?)
F-16 FSA

15. Flexibility FLEXIBILITY Unstructured environment
Host-tenant support (story about Civil Engineers)
Non-traditional environment (is it joint? Is it collocated? Is it something else?)

16. CREDIBILITY

17. Credibility How can we as Financial Managers ‘get into the cockpit?’
How can budgets constrain and change the culture?
On which hill do you ‘want to die?’
CREDIBILITY
Lt Col Bruce Gunn
Carol Coty didn’t trust her leadership…kept financial management decision to herself
We were awash in fiscal resources…for awhile
Should we argue over “green boots?” TDY expenses?

18. RESOURCES

19. Resources What’s your ‘baseline?’ Who can build budgets?
Can you ever be ‘too prepared’ to do your job?
RESOURCES

20. DETERMINATION

21. DETERMINATION Does Professionalism matter? Why or why not?
Does Leadership matter? Why or why not?
DETERMINATION
Are we going to fly or not?
Is this an active wing standing up or is it something else?
When is the right time to get ready and practice like we play?
Are flat rank structures good in the military? How can they be reasoned with?

22. INNOVATION

23. Was Edward Deming right?
INNOVATION
Was Edward Deming right?
INNOVATION
AFSO21 events

24. GOAL SEEKING

25. Goal Seeking What’s your organization’s plan?
Are you comfortable where you are?
How can you challenge the status quo and gain consensus?
INNOVATION
Visualization

26. Goal Seeking
How do we know what is possible if we don’t know what is impossible (and who defines this)?

27. Goal Seeking

28. Questions?