CDFM Module 2 ** Questions and Answers

Mission of the DoD - ANSWER to provide military forces needed to deter war and protect the security of our country. 3 military departments; 17 defense agencies and field activities. - ANSWER Who reports to the SECDEF? ...

Mission of the DoD - ANSWER to provide military forces needed to deter war and protect the security of our country. 3 military departments; 17 defense agencies and field activities. - ANSWER Who reports to the SECDEF? Military Departments - ANSWER Who is responsible for organizing, staffing, training, equipping and sustaining America's military forces? Combatant Commanders - ANSWER When the President and the SECDEF determine that military action is required, these trained and ready forces are assigned to ? USD(C)/CFO - ANSWER A key DoD principal who acts as resource consultant and advisor to the SECDEF as well as manager and arbiter of the Defense resource management process. National Security Act of 1947 - ANSWER Most important basic reorganization of Defense activists. This Act established - National Security Council - CIA - Civilian SECDEF - OSD - JCS 1949 National Security Act Amendment - ANSWER - Created the DoD - Consolidated Military Department under the SECDEF direct control - Made the SECDEF the only military representative on the President's cabinet SECDEF - ANSWER The principal Defense policy advisor to the President and is responsible for the formulation of general Defense policy and policy related to all matters direct and primary concern to the DoD. Defense Agencies - ANSWER Provide consolidated services to support military departments Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) - ANSWER The staff of the SECDEF and DEPSECDEF. This staff helps management the DoD Goldwater Nichols DoD Reorganization Act of 1986 - ANSWER - Identified Chairman of the JCS as the senior ranks member of the armed forces - Chairman of the JCS is the principal military advisor to the President, the National Security Council (NSC) and the SECDEF. Chairman JCS - ANSWER Provides strategic direction & planning for the armed forces CJCS advises SECDEF on the following non-financial matters - ANSWER - critical deficient and strengths in force capabilities (including manpower, logistics, and mobility support) - the priorities of the requirement identified by the commanders of the combatant command and the extent to which program recommendations and budget proposals of the military departments and other DoD components for a fiscal year conform with priorities established in strategic plans and requirements of the Combatant Commands President to SECDEF to Combatant Commands - ANSWER The operational chain of command runs from.... National Security Council (NSC) - ANSWER The President's principal forum for consideration national security and foreign policy matters with the senior national security advisors and cabinet officials. NSC Statutory Advisors - ANSWER - Chairman of the JCS - Director of National Intelligence Standing Principal Members of the NSC - ANSWER - President - Vice President - SECDEF - Secretary of State - Secretary of Energy Standing Participants on the NSC - ANSWER - Secretary of Treasury - Asst to President for National Security Affairs - Chief of Staff to the President - Counsel to the President - Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations - Secretary of Homeland Security - Other Cabinet and Selected Government Officials at the Presidents request National Security Strategy (NSS) - ANSWER Emerges from the National Security Council. Decisions from the NSC discussions are documented as the National Security Presidential Directives. The NSS sets forth the posture of the US; global and regional trends; and the US political, economic, and defense strategies Qaudrennial Defense Review - ANSWER - DoD Strategic as required by GPRA - Signed by the SECDEF - The QDR addresses & defines risks DoD Security Strategy - ANSWER - Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) - Defense Strategic Guidance - National Military Strategy - Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support QDR - ANSWER is prepared eery four years following a Presidential election to summarize the military goals, objectives and strategy for the coming four years. National Military Strategy (NMS) - ANSWER is developed by the CJCS to address objectives in the DoD Strategic Plan that require a military response. Outcome of PPBe - ANSWER The DoD's portion of the DoD's Budget Budget - ANSWER The last phase of the PPBE PPBE - ANSWER - Articulates its strategy to support the President's larger National Security Strategy (NSS) and identifies the forces (equipment, basin, and personnel) necessary to execute its strategy - Formulates a one-year budget and a four-year program plan - Decides what programs will be funded and how much of the total funds available will be spent on each program Ultimate objective of the PPBE - ANSWER To provide entire Defense Department with the most effective mix of forces equipment, manpower, and support attainable within fiscal constraints of the Federal Government. PPBE - ANSWER DoD Budget Formulation Process PPBE - ANSWER - DoD process to acquire, allocate, account for, and analyze personnel and financial resources - Objective is to provide the most effective mix of forces, equipment, manpower, and support attainable within fiscal constraints - Accomplished through a series of inter-relates phases Vice Chairman JCS - ANSWER Serves as the Vice Chairman of the Defense Acquisition Board and the Chairman of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) Under SECDEF Comptroller/CFO - ANSWER - Advises the SECDEF - Conduct and coordinate budget review - Conduct program execution and performance reviews - Prepare and publish budget decision documents in coordination with D,CAPE - Prepare DoD budget for submission to OMB - Present and justify the DoD Budget to Congress USD (C)/CFO - ANSWER Principal adviser and assistant to the SECDEF for budgetary and fiscal matters, including USD (C)/CFO - ANSWER -Responsible to conduct and coordinate the budget review by evaluating the DoD Component budget submissions for financial appropriateness while maintaining the administration's fiscal controls. - Overall financial management accounts policy and systems - Oversight responsibility for the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) and the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) USD (P) Policy - ANSWER - Conduct and coordinate the planning phase of the PPBE process - Prepare, coordinate, and publish planning guidance for the employment and development of the force. USD (AT&L) Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics - ANSWER - Advises the SECDEF and DEPSECDEF on all PPBE matters related to acquisition, technology, logistics, installations, equipment and environmental functions Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (D,CAPE) - ANSWER - Conduct and coordinate the DoD Program Review - Prepare/publish -- DoD programming Guidance -- DoD Fiscal Guidance -- programmatic decisions documents in coordination with USD (C) -- Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) - Provide Independent analysis and advice - lead analytical efforts in support of the QDR - Prepares the annual PPBE calendar of key events Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) - ANSWER A systematic method established by the JCS to assess gaps in military joint war fighting capabilities and to recommend solutions to resolve these gaps. To ensure effective integration of the capabilities identification and acquisition processes. Defense Acquisition System (DAS) - ANSWER The management process by which the Department acquires weapon systems and automated information systems. SECDEF Planning Process - ANSWER This process focuses attention on capabilities needed by Defense while tailoring the guidance to fit within the resources available to meet the defense goals SECDEF Planning Process - ANSWER - Fiscally constrained programmatic guidance to accomplish the National Defense Strategy and Corporate DoD Goals in the QDR - Two part process -- Defense Planning Guidance -- Strategic Portfolios Reviews Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) - ANSWER The "final" document of the "planning" phase is the DPG, which promulgates Defense policy, strategy, force planning, resource planning, and fiscal guidance. This fiscal, force, and resource planning guidance reflect economic constraints and the SECDEFs management priorities. POMS & budget estimates - ANSWER Document are to be prepared on the basis of this guidance, and the integrated program/budget review in the fall of the year examines the extent to which the DPG guidance is being accomplished Planning Process - ANSWER Begins about 1 1/2 years in advance of the fiscal year in which the budget authority will be requested Planning Phase Begins - ANSWER When the Combatant Commanders provide SECDEF and the CJCS with the following: - personal appraisal of major issues and problems of their command - principal concerns and trends in both the threat and evolving response ** Analyst are based on the following - QDR - DSG - NMS - JPD - Military Departments long range plans JCS and Combatant Commanders - ANSWER Play a major part in the planning phase of the PPBE. They have input to and/or review of every product and step of the process up to and including the Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) Integrated Priority Listing (IPL) - ANSWER Combatant Commander's submit their resource requirements to the military department designated responsible for providing program and budget support. The prioritized requirement are submitted via this document. Military Departments - ANSWER Responsible for considering requirements identified in the IPLs along with requirements from all other departmental elements - and incorporating into the later POM and BES for those requirements to the maximum extent affordable within the military departments top line dollar amounts PPBE Programming Phase - ANSWER - Translates planning decision, OSD programming guidance - Forces - Manpower - Dollars Programming - ANSWER Accomplished through a systematic review and approval process that "costs out" force objectives. In addition to the Budget Year, the program period includes the four years beyond the budget year for cost and manpower, and seen years beyond the budget year for forces Programming Phase - ANSWER Translates planning decision, OSD programming guidance, and congressional guidance into comprehensive and detailed allocation of forces, manpower, and funds. POM - ANSWER DoD components develop their proposed programs consistent with specific guidance (i.e. planning, programming, and fiscal) Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) - ANSWER Automated database that summarizes all forces, resources, and equipment associated with programs and approved by the SECDEF - - Ten years of data - prior year, current year, budget year, and the following 4 years for resources and forces - three more years for force structure - forces, manpower, and total obligational authorit Mission of the DoD - ANSWER to provide military forces needed to deter war and protect the security of our country. 3 military departments; 17 defense agencies and field activities. - ANSWER Who reports to the SECDEF? Military Departments - ANSWER Who is responsible for organizing, staffing, training, equipping and sustaining America's military forces? Combatant Commanders - ANSWER When the President and the SECDEF determine that military action is required, these trained and ready forces are assigned to ? USD(C)/CFO - ANSWER A key DoD principal who acts as resource consultant and advisor to the SECDEF as well as manager and arbiter of the Defense resource management process. National Security Act of 1947 - ANSWER Most important basic reorganization of Defense activists. This Act established - National Security Council - CIA - Civilian SECDEF - OSD - JCS 1949 National Security Act Amendment - ANSWER - Created the DoD - Consolidated Military Department under the SECDEF direct control - Made the SECDEF the only military representative on the President's cabinet SECDEF - ANSWER The principal Defense policy advisor to the President and is responsible for the formulation of general Defense policy and policy related to all matters direct and primary concern to the DoD. Defense Agencies - ANSWER Provide consolidated services to support military departments Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) - ANSWER The staff of the SECDEF and DEPSECDEF. This staff helps management the DoD Goldwater Nichols DoD Reorganization Act of 1986 - ANSWER - Identified Chairman of the JCS as the senior ranks member of the armed forces - Chairman of the JCS is the principal military advisor to the President, the National Security Council (NSC) and the SECDEF. Chairman JCS - ANSWER Provides strategic direction & planning for the armed forces CJCS advises SECDEF on the following non-financial matters - ANSWER - critical deficient and strengths in force capabilities (including manpower, logistics, and mobility support) - the priorities of the requirement identified by the commanders of the combatant command and the extent to which program recommendations and budget proposals of the military departments and other DoD components for a fiscal year conform with priorities established in strategic plans and requirements of the Combatant Commands President to SECDEF to Combatant Commands - ANSWER The operational chain of command runs from.... National Security Council (NSC) - ANSWER The President's principal forum for consideration national security and foreign policy matters with the senior national security advisors and cabinet officials. NSC Statutory Advisors - ANSWER - Chairman of the JCS - Director of National Intelligence Standing Principal Members of the NSC - ANSWER - President - Vice President - SECDEF - Secretary of State - Secretary of Energy Standing Participants on the NSC - ANSWER - Secretary of Treasury - Asst to President for National Security Affairs - Chief of Staff to the President - Counsel to the President - Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations - Secretary of Homeland Security - Other Cabinet and Selected Government Officials at the Presidents request National Security Strategy (NSS) - ANSWER Emerges from the National Security Council. Decisions from the NSC discussions are documented as the National Security Presidential Directives. The NSS sets forth the posture of the US; global and regional trends; and the US political, economic, and defense strategies Qaudrennial Defense Review - ANSWER - DoD Strategic as required by GPRA - Signed by the SECDEF - The QDR addresses & defines risks DoD Security Strategy - ANSWER - Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) - Defense Strategic Guidance - National Military Strategy - Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support QDR - ANSWER is prepared eery four years following a Presidential election to summarize the military goals, objectives and strategy for the coming four years. National Military Strategy (NMS) - ANSWER is developed by the CJCS to address objectives in the DoD Strategic Plan that require a military response. Outcome of PPBe - ANSWER The DoD's portion of the DoD's Budget Budget - ANSWER The last phase of the PPBE PPBE - ANSWER - Articulates its strategy to support the President's larger National Security Strategy (NSS) and identifies the forces (equipment, basin, and personnel) necessary to execute its strategy - Formulates a one-year budget and a four-year program plan - Decides what programs will be funded and how much of the total funds available will be spent on each program Ultimate objective of the PPBE - ANSWER To provide entire Defense Department with the most effective mix of forces equipment, manpower, and support attainable within fiscal constraints of the Federal Government. PPBE - ANSWER DoD Budget Formulation Process PPBE - ANSWER - DoD process to acquire, allocate, account for, and analyze personnel and financial resources - Objective is to provide the most effective mix of forces, equipment, manpower, and support attainable within fiscal constraints - Accomplished through a series of inter-relates phases Vice Chairman JCS - ANSWER Serves as the Vice Chairman of the Defense Acquisition Board and the Chairman of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) Under SECDEF Comptroller/CFO - ANSWER - Advises the SECDEF - Conduct and coordinate budget review - Conduct program execution and performance reviews - Prepare and publish budget decision documents in coordination with D,CAPE - Prepare DoD budget for submission to OMB - Present and justify the DoD Budget to Congress USD (C)/CFO - ANSWER Principal adviser and assistant to the SECDEF for budgetary and fiscal matters, including USD (C)/CFO - ANSWER -Responsible to conduct and coordinate the budget review by evaluating the DoD Component budget submissions for financial appropriateness while maintaining the administration's fiscal controls. - Overall financial management accounts policy and systems - Oversight responsibility for the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) and the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) USD (P) Policy - ANSWER - Conduct and coordinate the planning phase of the PPBE process - Prepare, coordinate, and publish planning guidance for the employment and development of the force. USD (AT&L) Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics - ANSWER - Advises the SECDEF and DEPSECDEF on all PPBE matters related to acquisition, technology, logistics, installations, equipment and environmental functions Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (D,CAPE) - ANSWER - Conduct and coordinate the DoD Program Review - Prepare/publish -- DoD programming Guidance -- DoD Fiscal Guidance -- programmatic decisions documents in coordination with USD (C) -- Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) - Provide Independent analysis and advice - lead analytical efforts in support of the QDR - Prepares the annual PPBE calendar of key events Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) - ANSWER A systematic method established by the JCS to assess gaps in military joint war fighting capabilities and to recommend solutions to resolve these gaps. To ensure effective integration of the capabilities identification and acquisition processes. Defense Acquisition System (DAS) - ANSWER The management process by which the Department acquires weapon systems and automated information systems. SECDEF Planning Process - ANSWER This process focuses attention on capabilities needed by Defense while tailoring the guidance to fit within the resources available to meet the defense goals SECDEF Planning Process - ANSWER - Fiscally constrained programmatic guidance to accomplish the National Defense Strategy and Corporate DoD Goals in the QDR - Two part process -- Defense Planning Guidance -- Strategic Portfolios Reviews Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) - ANSWER The "final" document of the "planning" phase is the DPG, which promulgates Defense policy, strategy, force planning, resource planning, and fiscal guidance. This fiscal, force, and resource planning guidance reflect economic constraints and the SECDEFs management priorities. POMS & budget estimates - ANSWER Document are to be prepared on the basis of this guidance, and the integrated program/budget review in the fall of the year examines the extent to which the DPG guidance is being accomplished Planning Process - ANSWER Begins about 1 1/2 years in advance of the fiscal year in which the budget authority will be requested Planning Phase Begins - ANSWER When the Combatant Commanders provide SECDEF and the CJCS with the following: - personal appraisal of major issues and problems of their command - principal concerns and trends in both the threat and evolving response ** Analyst are based on the following - QDR - DSG - NMS - JPD - Military Departments long range plans JCS and Combatant Commanders - ANSWER Play a major part in the planning phase of the PPBE. They have input to and/or review of every product and step of the process up to and including the Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) Integrated Priority Listing (IPL) - ANSWER Combatant Commander's submit their resource requirements to the military department designated responsible for providing program and budget support. The prioritized requirement are submitted via this document. Military Departments - ANSWER Responsible for considering requirements identified in the IPLs along with requirements from all other departmental elements - and incorporating into the later POM and BES for those requirements to the maximum extent affordable within the military departments top line dollar amounts PPBE Programming Phase - ANSWER - Translates planning decision, OSD programming guidance - Forces - Manpower - Dollars Programming - ANSWER Accomplished through a systematic review and approval process that "costs out" force objectives. In addition to the Budget Year, the program period includes the four years beyond the budget year for cost and manpower, and seen years beyond the budget year for forces Programming Phase - ANSWER Translates planning decision, OSD programming guidance, and congressional guidance into comprehensive and detailed allocation of forces, manpower, and funds. POM - ANSWER DoD components develop their proposed programs consistent with specific guidance (i.e. planning, programming, and fiscal) Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) - ANSWER Automated database that summarizes all forces, resources, and equipment associated with programs and approved by the SECDEF - - Ten years of data - prior year, current year, budget year, and the following 4 years for resources and forces - three more years for force structure - forces, manpower, and total obligational authorit