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GAO-02-100R 1 (2001-11-09)

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       Accountability * Integrity  Reliability
United States General Accounting Office
Washington, DC 20548


         November 9, 2001

         The Honorable Carl Levin
         Chairman
         The Honorable John Warner
         Ranking Minority Member
         Committee on Armed Services
         United States Senate

         The Honorable Bob Stump
         Chairman
         The Honorable Ike Skelton
         Ranking Minority Member
         Committee on Armed Services
         House of Representatives

         Subject: Defense Plans: Status of DOD's Efforts to Improve Its Joint Warfighting
         Requirements Process

         Because the military services' weapon systems, particularly communication systems,
         have not been sufficiently interoperable, the services have experienced difficulty
         during operations such as the Gulf War and the Kosovo operation. In Joint Vision
         2020, a strategic statement on the transformation efforts of U.S. military forces, the
         Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recognizes that a joint force is key to
         operational success and envisions an interoperable joint force with technologically
         advanced warfighting capabilities able to dominate any adversary by 2020. This
         vision also emphasizes the importance of experimenting with new joint warfighting
         concepts.

         The Joint Requirements Oversight Council plays a key role in advancing the joint
         warfighting capabilities of U.S. forces in support of Joint Vision 2020. The Council
         oversees the joint requirements process by, among other things, assessing and
         approving the services' joint requirements for current and future military capabilities,
         assessing warfighting capabilities and deficiencies, reviewing and approving plans for
         correcting those deficiencies while ensuring interoperability, and ensuring that the
         services have linked their capabilities to Joint Vision 2020. Assessment teams
         comprised of Joint Staff and other defense officials support the Council's
         deliberations by analyzing warfighting needs.

         To better ensure that joint requirements will result in interoperable, future
         warfighting capabilities, the Chairman and others began to informally examine the
         Council's oversight and the joint requirements process in 1999 and identified several


GAO-02-100R Defense Plans

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