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(2) Planning leverages several tools and processes. IT tools enable
planner collaboration and access to shared authoritative data. Processes (i.e.,
operational art, operational design, and joint planning) provide planners with
flexible analytical techniques for framing problems and logically developing
plans and orders to accomplish missions or objectives. References p and q
expand on the processes used during planning.
c. Execution Functions. There are seven execution functions: allocation,
mobilization, deployment, distribution, employment, redeployment, and
demobilization. During each function, supported and supporting commanders,
Services, and other organizations direct, monitor, assess, and adjust. CCDRs
continue to review progress during execution with the President, SecDef, and
CJCS to ensure their planning remains consistent with national objectives and
assumptions. References p, q, and r provide detailed discussion on the
execution processes, roles, and responsibilities.
d. Global Force Management Processes. Overlaying the joint planning and
execution process, global force management (GFM) serves to align directed
readiness, force assignment, allocation, apportionment, and assessment to
support reference b. Directed readiness and assignment run throughout the
planning and execution functions. Allocation is limited to execution functions,
while apportionment is part of planning. These GFM processes are detailed in
reference i.
e. Sourcing. Strategy and resource-informed planning require the
development of plans based on the readiness and availability of the force, the
capacity and capability of the logistics and transportation systems, preferred
munitions, host nation support, and contract support. GFM procedures
provide proactive, resource-informed, and risk-informed planning assumptions
and estimates and execution decision-making regarding military forces. Time
phased force requirements are documented as notional time-phased force and
deployment data (TPFDD). Within GFM, there are three levels of matching
forces to requirements, depending upon the end state required: identification
of preferred forces, contingency sourcing, and execution sourcing.
(1) Preferred Forces. CCMD planners identify preferred forces as a
planning assumption necessary to continue planning and assess the feasibility
of a plan. The amount/quantity of identified preferred forces should be within
the quantities of those force types apportioned. Preferred forces are planning
assumptions only and do not indicate that these forces will be contingency or
execution sourced. The degree to which the CCDR makes appropriate planning
assumptions when identifying preferred forces improves the feasibility of a
plan.