1. FA50 Qualification Course
Overview
FA 50 Proponent Office
8 May 2007

2. Why ?
“…The Army is required by law [Title X], tradition and necessity to organize, train, man, motivate, equip and support combatant forces The process is called Force Management* it is a dynamic, highly technical and complex undertaking the process by which new technology is brought into the force. It is the process by which units are organized around new weapons and their support The process by which tactics and technology are combined designing and producing modular warfighting units** and constantly modernizing, reorganizing and training them is the central Army function.” General William E. DePuy
March, 1986
Understand that The Army – “Big Army,” “The Institutional Army,” whatever nickname it goes by – is in the business of organizing, manning, equipping and training units, and providing them to the Combatant Commanders, i.e., the Joint Warfighters.
The capstone process by which The Army accomplishes that task is called Force Management. Force Management, in its broadest sense, includes Combat Developments, Training and Leader Development, Materiel Development, Doctrine Development – all the “DOTMLPF Domains.”
* “Force Development” in 1986.
* * “Combined arms divisions” in 1986.
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3. Vision
The Force Management functional area (FA 50) provides officers who are uniquely trained and educated creative managers of change, integrated in both Army and Joint echelons, qualified in the critical aspects of the force management process to create mission ready, campaign quality expeditionary forces for the Combatant Commander.
The vast majority of the people doing these highly technical, complex tasks, though, are not FA50s. They are engineers, doctrine specialists, personnelists and human resources specialists, Project and Program Directors, TRADOC System Managers, documenters who create TOEs and MTOEs, etc., all experts in their particular fields.
The role of the FA50 Force Management Officer – typically assigned at Division, Corps, Major Command or Army Staff level - is to synchronize, schedule and integrate the work of all those people, predicting and planning for the second- and third-order effects of changes being made to his Commander’s organizations, to create fully manned, trained and modernized and combat-ready units. As General DePuy told Congress, Force Management is in fact “the central Army function.”
By the way, this is not a new task even though the cadre of professional Force Management specialists is relatively new. The Army has been doing Force Management, under different names and by different techniques, for 230 years. Washington’s efforts to keep a Continental Army together and in the field, or McClellan organizing and training the Army of the Potomac, or General Marshall mobilizing and deploying 90 divisions for WW2 – its all Force Management.
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4. Mission
FA 50 (Force Management) Officers manage, articulate, and implement change by synchronizing Force Development and Force Integration processes in both the institutional and operational Army, and the Joint environment.
They create and sustain mission ready forces fulfilling the statutory requirements of Section 3062 of Title 10, U.S.C.
Our mission statement –
Essentially, FA50s – Force Management Officers – are trained to manage, lead and implement the vast changes under way across the Army.
They understand and use all the tools and techniques, all the databases and models and programs, and most importantly the skills and leadership abilities of Army officers to determine what the Army needs in the way of units, personnel and equipment, how much and how to get it, and then organizing it all into combat-capable warfighting units.
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5. Battlefield Surveillance
The right focus…
CSA: “…move towards an Army designed around smaller, more self-contained organizations.”
Emerging
Concepts
Joint and
Expeditionary Mindset
The Centerpiece
Current Operating Environment J O I N T J E M X
Brigade
Force
Management
Officer
MP/Security
MP/Security
Signal
Logistics
Chemical A R M Y
Fires
Intelligence
Engineer
Combined
Arms
Armed
Recon
Combined
Arms
The centerpiece or focal point of Army transformation is the Force Management Officer
Army transformation into a Modular Army is informed by:
Defense Strategy and Transformation Planning Guidance
Joint view of the future operational environment as articulated by USJFCOM and TRADOC
Joint concepts—required joint force capabilities and interdependencies
Operational experience
At Army Staff and Major Command levels, Force Management Officers develop the Army’s total required force structure by identifying the personnel and funds to support the requirements produced by the combat developers at the various branches, schools, and proponents. This is where we put in motion the Army Leadership’s decisions on what the future Army will be.
In the Operational Army, the Corps or Division Force Management Officer is the person best positioned and trained to coordinate and synchronize all the hundreds of tasks involved in, for example, converting a Cold War-style division into several Modular Brigade Combat Teams. FA50s manage the fielding of new equipment; reorganizations, activations or inactivations of units; introduction of new doctrine and training; and identification of required facilities and training areas.
Or, as GEN DePuy would put it, Force Management is where doctrine and technology, people and units all come together.
Aviation
Battlefield Surveillance
Fires
Maneuver Enhancement
Sustainment
Doctrine and Technology
A More Relevant and Ready Force
… achieves Army’s modularity goals.
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6. Attributes Effective Force Management requires the ability to…
- Manage the broad spectrum of tasks, functions, processes and
systems that continually adapt the force from concept to implementation to sustainment of organizations and materiel in both the Institutional and Operational Army.
- Synchronize the processes and systems that define the force (force development) and build the force (force integration) in support of the Combatant Commander
- Integrate operational needs, materiel and organizational solutions, and resources within the PPBE and JCIDS processes to produce and support combat capabilities.
. . . enabling the Army to control and optimize the effects of rapid and continual change.
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7. FA50 Qualification Course
Conducted in two Phases by the Army Force Management School at Ft Belvoir, VA.
Class 01-07: 4 Jun 07 to 7 Sep 07
Class 02-07: 10 Sep 07 to 14 Dec 07
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8. Advanced Force Management Course
Phase I
(4 Weeks)
Train military and civilian personnel with the "why" and "how to" of determining force requirements and alternative means of resourcing to accomplish Army functions and missions.
2 week core course and two 1-week sub-courses
Combat/Materiel Development
Applied Force Development.
Overview of "How the Army Runs" focused on processes, system of systems and regulatory basis for the force projection Army as it transitions to the modular design.
Highlights sustainment of capabilities through management of doctrinal, organizational and materiel change.
The student becomes familiar with Army organizational roles, functions and missions at MACOM and Army Secretariat/Staff level.
The 1 week sub-courses are provide the student with an in-depth appreciation of each of the disciplines.
The course is designed for up to 60 students and is offered ten times each year. The target audience is officers (Captain through Colonel) and civilians (GS 11-15) in or going to a force management position, and selected by DA Staff agencies and MACOMs.
The course quotas are established and funded by HQDA.
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9. Force Management Qualification Course Phase II
(10 Weeks)
To prepare all FA 50 officers with the skills, knowledge, tools and attributes to successfully articulate, manage and lead change.
How to Manage Change for the Army
“SSC-like” experience
National Strategy
PPBE
Combat Development
Materiel Development
Force Development
Critical thought processes and effective multi-tasking
Complex problem solving
On site visits and hands on practical exercises
Today’s Operational Environment
Full Spectrum Ops
Strategy
National Security Strategy
National Military Strategy
Strategic Planning Guidance
National Defense Guidance
Quadrennial Defense Review
PPBE
Peacetime process
Army Strategic Planning Guidance
Operational Needs Statement
Setting the Force
Combat Development
Development of Army Functional Systems
Formulation of concepts, doctrine, organizations and materiel requirements
Materiel Development
Research and Development
Test and Evaluation
Product Validation
Force Development
Translating Army resources
Develop time-phased programs and structures to support missions and functions
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10. www.FA50.army.mil / https://www.us.army.mil/suite/page/194547
Contact
Active Duty Officers
HRC FA 50 Assignments Officer
MAJ Brian Halloran
Army Reserve Officers
Division Chief, Force Management Initiatives
LTC Jonathan Beard
National Guard Officers
Deputy, Force Management
Mr. Dwight Williams
CP26 Careerists
Ms. Barbara Guy /
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