Accession Number:

ADA369135

Title:

Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on DoD Warfighting Transformation

Descriptive Note:

Final technical rept.

Corporate Author:

DEFENSE SCIENCE BOARD WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Gold, Ted

Report Date:

1999-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

45.0

Abstract:

The Defense Science Board DSB Warfighting Transformation Task Force was charged with reviewing the transformation activities underway in the Department of Defense DoD to provide an independent, comprehensive picture of transformation efforts that encompasses processes, organizational responsibilities, and anticipated products identify opportunities to enhance, as well as the obstacles to, transformation progress and recommend Criteria to gauge progress over the next several years. Transformation efforts within DoD today involve an inevitable tension between dealing with todays problems and preparing for tomorrows. But an even more formidable tension exists between alternative views of tomorrows challenges and between competing approaches to address them. Transformation is about defining and implementing a vision of the future different from the one embedded, if only implicitly, in DoDs current plans and programs. Such a transformation requires powerful, high-level support to survive in todays resource-competitive environment.

Descriptors:

• *MILITARY OPERATIONS
• DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
• TASK FORCES
• MILITARY CAPABILITIES
• TRANSFORMATIONS

Subject Categories:

• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE