1. USAF Concept Development and Experimentation Update
Maj Gen Mike Gould
Director of Operational Plans
and Joint Matters

2. Overview AF Concept Development Goals and Objectives
USAF Engagement Gameplan
USAF Concept Development Process
USAF CONOPS
USAF Capabilities-based Planning Process
Logic Trail
Conclusion

3. USAF Concept Development Goals and Objectives
Help shape tomorrow’s Joint Force
Influence joint employment concepts and the future joint force structure
Develop and validate AF concepts that support joint concepts – and effectively advocate them
Invest smartly in DOTMLPF by using AF Capabilities Review and Risk Assessment (CRRA) process
Provide linkages from AF CRRA process to the Joint Capabilities and Integration Development System (JCIDS) --- and vice versa
Learn from recent experiences and capitalize on “low hanging fruit”

4. USAF Engagement Gameplan
Provide a consistent message to Joint Arena
One senior AF concept developer – AF/XOX
Provide enough voices so the AF message is heard
Ensure HQ AF is adequately focused on concept development
JCIDS involvement
JROC, JCB, and FCB interaction
Fill AF billets at JFCOM to include a cross-functional liaison team
Incorporate MAJCOM representation, ideas, and concepts
Continue AF Wargaming and support to Sister Service Wargames
Ensure the AF message is based on evidence
Use historical lessons, testing, experimentation, wargaming, and analysis to validate new concepts
Use joint framework and common baselines for validation methodologies

5. USAF Concept Development Process
Primary Developers
AF Vision, Strategic Plan
Transformation Flight Plan
HQ AF and MAJCOMs
AF Operations Concepts (AF OpsC)
HQ AF and MAJCOMs
(Under development)
AF Operating
Concepts (TBD)
AF Functional
Concepts (CONOPS)
HQ AF and MAJCOMs
Operating Concepts – TBD
Functional Concepts – CONOPS
AF Capabilities
HQ AF CRRA Process
Service concepts must contribute to Joint Concepts

6. Enabling Capabilities
AF CONOPS
Global
Strike
Homeland Security
Nuclear Response
Global
Persistent
Attack
Global
Mobility
Space & C4ISR
Enabling Capabilities

7. AF Capabilities-based Planning Process
CONOPS Architectures Development 6x
Prioritize Capabilities 6x
Planning Inputs:
DPG
JOCs
War Plans
AFPP
Develop Task Force CONOPS
Develop
CONOPS 6x
A F R O C C
A F R O C C
Determine Capabilities Required 6x
Determine Desired Effects 6x
Determine Capability Objectives 6x
A F R O C C
A F R O C C
Integrate Prioritized Capabilities & Objectives from all CONOPS
Develop Prioritized Capability Investment-Divestment Strategy
D O T M L P F
Identify Excess Capabilities or Shortfalls
Odd Year
POM
CRRA
Functional Solution Analysis (when required)
Air Force Corporate Structure Process
Functional Processes
POM Guidance to MAJCOMs Requirements (JCIDS)
S & T Focus Analysis Requirements
Operational Planning Personnel Planning
Acquisition Strategy Infrastructure/Sustainment Planning
Even Year Review CRRA
BUDGET
AFROCC Oversight
APPG

8. Logic Trail Feedback Strategic Direction The Common Truths
Joint Language
Departure for all Debates
Joint Operations Concepts (JOpsC)
AF OpsC
Joint Operating & Functional Concepts (JOCs)
AF Operating Concepts
AF CONOPS
Feedback
Joint Capabilities
OBJ: Versatile airpower force that mitigates risk against a fast, stressing, anti-access problem
MOE: Warfighting value and/or risk to the strategy providing compelling desire to invest
AF Capabilities guided by analysis
Requirements
Solutions
CRRA

9. Conclusion AF is committed to supporting the joint force
AF is providing answers to support joint concepts
Dedicated work force
Consistent message
Based on evidence and accepted baselines
“Tooth-to-tail” capabilities-based planning process
Full gamut of complimentary initiatives

10. Questions?

12. Linked Slides

13. Global Strike CONOPS
Mission: Counter intense anti-access systems to allow persistent follow-on operations
Defeat or suppress adversary anti-access capabilities to “kick down the door”
Employ a wide range of stand-off and strike platform-based sensors and flexible command systems to provide accurate and timely data to decision makers / cockpits
Assets: Stealth, precision, stand-off, IO, and Space / C4ISR

14. Global Persistent Attack CONOPS
Provide a poised force, ready to engage any fleeting target in any AOR
Provide an integrated joint air, space, maritime, ground, and IO capability to respond globally against targets
Provide swift strikes ranging from minutes to hours to days, based on fleeting nature of the target
Assets:
Precision, stand-off wpns
Space & C4ISR
Main and forward bases
Secure reachback
1 Hour Response/450 NM
3 Hour Response/1350 NM

15. Homeland Security CONOPS
Integrate with joint and interagency efforts to prevent, protect against, and respond to homeland threats
Defend against air and space threats
Prevent threats and attacks by neutralizing the threat
Protect against threats that can not be prevented
Respond to a hostile attack against the homeland
Assets:
Offensive and defensive counterair assets
Space & C4ISR, GR, & GS CONOPS capabilities
Joint / inter-agencies

16. Global Mobility CONOPS
Provide assets around the globe anytime, anywhere
Provide tailored capabilities to stand-up and sustain combat operations at prepared and austere locations
Assets:
Agile / expeditionary combat support
Trained advance EWOC teams
Global reachback
Basing agreements
Improved delivery modes
Space & C4ISR
SMART TANKER

17. Space & C4ISR CONOPS
Provide real-time decision quality information across horizontally integrated networks
Provide a single network to remove the seams between tactical, theater, and national assets
Enable dynamic command, control, synchronization, and integration of platforms, sensors, and strikers
Compress the kill chain across the entire spectrum of ops
Provide persistent global surveillance
Enable independent or joint and multi-national operations

18. Nuclear Response CONOPS
CONOPS: SECRET/NOFORN
Provide nuclear response options to theater commanders across the entire spectrum of conflict
Act as AEF Topcover—the deterrent umbrella under which conventional forces operate
Dissuade any adversary from employing nuclear threats
If deterrence fails, execute response options to defeat the enemy and reestablish deterrence upon conflict termination

19. Backup

20. Joint Concept Development Process
Primary Developers
Strategic Direction
OSD, J5, J7
Joint Staff – J7
Services, Combatant Commands, and Defense Agencies
Joint Operations Concepts
JFCOM, STRATCOM, NORTHCOM
Joint Staff – J8
Services
Joint Operating
Concepts
Joint Functional
Concepts
JFCOM
Services
Combatant Commands
Joint Capabilities
Service concepts must contribute to Joint Concepts

21. Joint Capabilities-based Methodology
Past
Future
Top Down
Strategic Direction
Integrated at
Department
Systems
Joint Operations Concepts
Requirements
Joint/Service Operating
Concepts
Joint Capabilities
Briefed to & approved by SecDef – 3 Jan 03
Bottom up
Focus leadership early -- Move decision points forward
Increase opportunities to adjust at the proper points along the way
Improve analytical rigor
Shift the focus from “bottom-up threat-based” requirements to “top-down capabilities-based” needs

22. JCIDS Process

23. Major Joint Concepts Joint Operations Concepts (JOpsC)
Joint Operating Concepts (JOCs)
Major Combat Operations (MCO)
Stability Operations
Strategic Deterrence
Homeland Security
Functional Concepts
Battlespace Awareness
Protection
Force Application
Command and Control
Focused Logistics
Other
Joint Urban Ops (JUO)
Joint Forcible Entry Ops

24. JFCOM’s CD&E Strategy FY 02 Major Experiment Millennium Challenge
Field the Standing Joint Force Headquarters (SJFHQ) – including the enabling concepts for developing transformational joint command and control
Pursue rapid, prototyping of capabilities to improve joint warfighting now
FY 03
FY 04
FY 05
Joint Prototype Path
FY 02 Major Experiment
FY 01
Distributive Continuous Experimentation Environment
supports both pathways
Promising capabilities moved from Joint Concept
Development to the Joint Prototype Pathway
Millennium
Challenge
Unified
Vision
Joint Concept Development Path
Provide actionable recommendations from experimentation results to senior leaders to inform options for future force investments
FY 03
FY 04
FY 05
Leverage Service Sponsored Wargames and Seminars

25. Concept & Program Development
USAF CD&E Process
Planning
Experiment &
Wargame
Development
Execution
Concept & Program Development
Detailed
Experiment
Plans
Detailed
Experiment
Plans
AF & Joint Visions
AF Strategic Plan
AF & Joint Campaign Plans
AF Operating Concepts
MAJCOM Inputs
Design
Prepare
Conduct
Assess
Integration AF
Actions
Review and
Approval
Results
Recommendations
Track and Monitor
Implementation
Joint
Actions

26. Other USAF Initiatives
JEFX 04
Three focus areas:
Effects Based Operations
Predictive Battlespace Awareness
Network Centric Infrastructure
Advanced Technology Concept Demo (ACTD)
Focuses on new technologies from labs and industry
USAF Battlelabs
Assess innovative concepts to improve Air Force core competencies in Joint Warfighting
Battlelabs are Major Command or Field Operating Agency owned and managed with Air Staff policy & guidance
USAF Wargames

27. USAF Wargames “Global Engagement (GE)”
AF CSAF Title X Wargame Series
Biennial; Mid-Term Security Environment; Concept Exploration
“Futures” (Aerospace Future Capabilities Wargame)
Biennial; Far-Term Security Environment; Force Structure Exploration
“Schriever”
AF Space Command’s Wargame Series
Focuses on future Space and Air Power Integration
Air Force Technology exploration Wargame
AF Research Laboratory Wargame series
Far Term Technologies for Warfighter

28. Major USAF Efforts in Experiments & Wargames
A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J
Experiments
JEFX 04 Spiral 3, Jun 04
JEFX 04
Jul-Aug 04
JEFX 04 Spiral 1, Jan 04
JEFX 04 Spiral 2, Apr 04
Wargames
Thors Hammer (NRO)
Feb 04
Navy Wargame
5-9 Oct 03
Unified Quest (USA)
Apr 04
Unified Quest (USA)
Apr 05
Futures
Dec 03
GLOMO III
Mar 04
GE VII
21-30 Jul 04
GLOMO IV
Mar 05
USMC Expeditionary
Warrior Oct 03
USMC Expeditionary
Warrior Oct 04?
A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J

29. USAF Wargame Support
AF Support other Service, Joint, and Office Secretary Defense (OSD) Wargaming
Army: Unified Quest
Navy: Unified Course
Marine Corps: Expeditionary Warrior Series
JFCOM Concept Development: Pinnacle Impact
JFCOM SJFHQ Prototype and Validate Pathway
OSD: Project Magellan/Net Assessment
Joint Staff: Dominant Maneuver/Precision Engagement

30. AEF CONOPS Objectives
Articulate the span of problems that warfighters face in today’s geopolitical environment across the entire spectrum of conflict
Articulate the unique core competencies, distinctive capabilities, and broad-based functions that the AEF brings to the joint warfighting arena
In particular, those critical capabilities that enable the AEF and six Task Forces to accomplish the mission
Articulate how the AEF sequences those capabilities in a logical manner to provide Task Force CONOPS-based Air & Space Expeditionary Task Forces (AETFs) to the Joint Force Commander