Chapter 1 Purpose 1-1. Introduction

Chapter 1

Purpose

1-1. Introduction

a. The Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) mandates the process for developing new military capabilities. The capabilities based analysis (CBA) is the first step in the JCIDS process. A necessary precursor to beginning the CBA is a conceptual framework that describes how the United States (U.S.) Army will conduct mission operations in the future and identifies the associated far term required capabilities. A concept capability plan (CCP) establishes this future framework and its required capabilities. The CCP is the most descriptive of the Army concept formats.

1-2. Analysis of Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Concept Capabilities Plan (CCP) Need

a. The CWMD ICDT performed an analysis to determine whether existing joint and Army concepts and National strategy provide a sufficient conceptual framework for identifying future CWMD required capabilities. The analysis consisted of three main efforts.

b. Literature search. ICDT subject matter experts (SMEs) reviewed national, joint, Army, and other documents providing CWMD or CWMD related guidance, concepts, and required capabilities. The document research included authoritative sources describing the future joint operating environment (JOE). The literature search also included mining the online capabilities needs analysis database. Appendix A lists all significant documents and other sources reviewed during the literature search. Appendix B provides additional detail on literature search findings.
c. The chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) seminar. The second main effort was a weeklong seminar in January 2008, involving senior CBRN unit commanders and staff and representatives from other ICDT member organizations. In this seminar, limited in scope to CWMD missions not in the homeland, the SMEs discussed future CWMD concepts and required capabilities. The main purpose of this seminar was to inform CWMD CCP development.
d. Army support to civil authorities seminar. The third effort was a weeklong seminar in April 2008, similar to the CBRN seminar but examining only Army support to civil authorities in homeland weapons of mass destruction (WMD) consequence management (CM) and other homeland emergency response missions.

1-3. CWMD CCP Need Analysis Findings

a. The literature search and CBRN seminar revealed that some of the conceptual detail required to support far term required capabilities analysis for CWMD is already in place. However, there is no published Army concept, specifically focused on CWMD, treating the subject in a holistic manner and providing an approved, integrated conceptual basis upon which to analyze future required capabilities.

b. National CWMD strategy. The two published national strategies most specifically dealing with CWMD are the National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction and the National Military Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction (NMSCWMD). These documents define a national framework for combating WMD that consists of strategic objectives and their supporting military missions that will lead to the desired strategic end states. They provide the azimuth for joint and Army concepts but do not identify specific required capabilities.
c. Operating environment. The U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM), Joint Operating Environment–Trends and Challenges for the Future Joint Force Through 2030, is an excellent source for developing an understanding of the future JOE. Additionally, many national, joint, and Army publications provide information relating to the JOE. The threats of WMD proliferation and WMD use, especially involving non-state actors, are expected to increase. Adversary attempts to develop and employ biological weapons are a particular concern due to the relative low cost and ease of concealing such programs. These and other potential aspects of the future operating environment require an enhanced capability to engage the threat in order to protect the U.S., its allies, and partners. To be successful the Army must leverage the continuing advances in technology in areas such as sensors, intelligence fusion, and unmanned systems. The Army must ensure that its CWMD concept provides sufficient conceptual detail to identify capabilities needed to conduct future operations.
d. Joint CWMD concepts. Numerous joint concepts and doctrinal publications address the military roles in CWMD but do not define specific service roles. The Joint Integrating Concept for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (JICCWMD) describes in detail the approach to defeating an enemy’s WMD network functions. It then derives eleven CWMD required capabilities and further breaks them out into effects, required tasks, and standards. The joint operating concept (JIC) provides excellent detail on national, interagency, and multipartner required CWMD capabilities and strongly influences TRADOC Pam 525-7-19 at the strategic level.
e. Army concepts. Aspects of the future Army CWMD concept, as well as numerous required capabilities, are included in TRADOC Pam 525-3-0 and in all operating and functional concepts subordinate to it. As an example, TRADOC Pam 525-3-5, Protect, states a goal to “protect the fighting force to preserve combat power.” It views the goal of protection as preservation of the Army’s other five functional concepts, TRADOC Pam 525-2-1, See; TRADOC Pam 525-3-3, Battle Command; TRADOC Pam 525-3-4, Strike; TRADOC
Pam 525-3-6, Move; and TRADOC Pam 525-4-1, Sustain (for comparisons see table 4-1, below). It includes required capabilities, by doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, and facilities (DOTMLPF), to protect Soldiers, platforms, systems, and facilities from many threats, including those encountered in a CBRN environment. TRADOC Pam 525-3-5 calls for proactive efforts to stop the proliferation of WMD and to eliminate WMDs before they can be used against the U.S., its allies, and military forces.
f. During the CBRN seminar conducted at the U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center (MANSCEN) January 2008, senior Army CWMD staff members and other SMEs examined the Army’s future CWMD roles by stepping through the eight mission areas defined in the NMSCWMD. They found that the Army requires a better integrated approach in its concept and framework for CWMD to mesh with the modular structure of the future force and to ensure the Army can properly support the joint force. The seminar SMEs discussed a more detailed vision of future Army CWMD operations than found in current Army concept publications. This additional detail nests within elements of existing national, joint, and Army concept publications and is tied to the evolving JOE and to potential friendly and Threat military adaptations of future technologies. Seminar discussions also identified future required capabilities that existing published concepts did not document fully.

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