Part II The Basics of Japan’s Defense Policy and Build-up of Defense Capability
1 Background
2 Specific Matters under Investigation
1 Matters under Investigation
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2 Framework of the Investigative Studies
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Framework for Promoting the Structural Reform for Enhancing the Effectiveness of Defense
Committee for Promoting Comprehensive Acquisition Reform
Chairman: Minister of Defense
Minister of Defense
Directives
Reports
Directives
Commiittee for the Reform of
Coordination
Human Resources
Chairman: Parliamentary Senior
Vice-Minister of Defense
Committee to Promote Structural Reform for Enhancing the
Effectiveness of Defense
Chairman: Parliamentary Senior Vice-Minister of Defense
Vice-Chairman: Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Defense,
Advisor to Chairman: Special Advisor to the Minister of Defense
Considering the enhancement
of functions and the roles of
units in joint operation
Considering the unification and
optimization of cross-cutting
allocation
Coordination
Project Team for Promoting
Comprehensive Acquisition Reform
Team leader: Parliamentary Senior
Vice-Minister of Defense
Committee for the Enhance
of Medical Functions
Chairman: Parliamentary
Vice-Minister for Defense
Promoting
Comprehensive
Acquisition Reform
3 Current Status of Investigative Studies
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Mutual coordination and review in the Internal Bureau and respective Staff Offices
Note: With regard to items for which review is in progress under the Ministry of Defense Reform, reforms will be advanced in coordination with the said reform.
Chapter 3
Promotion of structural
reform with regard to
human resources
Reports
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Enhancing
medical functions
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Promotion of comprehensive
procurement reform
Chapter 3
Promotion of system reform for
human resource base
Review of consolidation and optimization of
resource allocation in a cross-sectorial manner
Enhancement of functions through integration;
review of the posture of units, etc.
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category
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Sub-category
Main issues
Command and control, and basic
units
❍Posture with regard to command and control ❍ Defense structure in priority regions
❍Posture with regard to commands and basic units at each level
Expeditionary Force
❍Integration of awareness and evaluation pertaining to capabilities and events, etc. which serve as the premise
❍Posture on units that have expeditionary deployment capabilities
❍Transportation capabilities for expeditionary deployment
Integrated transportation and
medical units
❍Posture on integrated transport system that can meet the needs of various operations
❍Medical systems that are able to deal flexibly with various events
Integrated communications and
cyberspace
❍Creation of system networks necessary for effective operations
❍Securing effective and efficient communications systems for the entire SDF
❍Posture on cyber response system for the entire SDF
Situational exercises, training, and
education
❍Posture with regard to situational exercises and training
❍Posture with regard to education that can meet the needs of various operations
Intelligence, surveillance and warning,
and reconnaissance activities
❍Posture on surveillance and warning
❍Posture on intelligence gathering
Structures of air defense and antiaircraft units
❍Posture with regard to air defense systems
❍Posture with regard to anti-aircraft units
Evaluation of, and enabling the
visibility of, unit capabilities
❍Understanding and sharing information on the actual conditions in a unit and its existing capabilities
❍Posture on capability evaluation
Review of the and programming
planning systems
❍Organizing the and programming planning systems, etc.
❍Framework that allows for the cross-sectorial evaluation of the status of achievement of the NDPG and the Mid-term Defense Program
Optimization of budget and project
systems
❍Stance on, and clarification on, the priority items and level of priority for budget requirements for each fiscal year
❍Framework that allows for the effective allocation of budgets to the functions and sectors that really require the
budget, from a cross-sectorial perspective
Management of information and
communications projects
❍Organizing and specifying current issues ❍ Policies on the building up of command and communications systems for the future
❍Policies on the building up of next-generation X-band communications satellite projects
Management of research and
development projects
❍Posture on the undertaking of research and development, as well as the management of projects
❍Tightening evaluation criteria and computing costs ❍ Posture on the establishment of project goals
Streamlining of backend work
❍Organizing work classifications
❍Organizing the problems and drawing out the optimal methods for rationalizing and streamlining work at camps and air bases.
Review of personnel management
systems, and rank and age structure
❍Reorganizing the ways of recruitment and promotions, and reviewing management methods of effectives
❍Reorganizing the regulatory systems for authorized and actual number of personnel ❍ Trial of new regulations
Non-frontline appointment
systems
❍Rearranging and analyzing the work and responsibilities of the current SDF personnel, and extracting the prospective
positions for backend appointments ❍ Concrete system design
Early retirement systems
❍Identifying the target and aims for early retirement systems
❍Concrete system design ❍ Promotion of re-employment in public sectors
Invigoration of officers, sergeants
and privates
❍Reorganizing the “package policies” (new establishment of senior sergeant classes, separate salary tables for
officers sergeants and privates, etc.) in consideration of the new NDPG.
❍Review of the composition of officers, and their work and responsibilities
Review of recruitment and
reemployment support
❍Research of the actual conditions of recruiting and reemployment support duties, and examination of the adequate manpower scale
❍Examining the prospective options for the rationalizing and restructuring of the organization
Measures to respond to changing
international environment
❍Measures to respond to the changing international environment with regard to defense equipment
Defense production and
technology infrastructure strategy
❍Organizing to ensure consistency with security policies, etc.
❍Reviewing by sector, and understanding the strengths and weaknesses
❍Formulating assessment criteria for “selection and concentration”
Regulatory systems, etc.
❍Improving regulatory systems to draw out the cost-reduction incentives for corporations
❍Reducing equipment procurement costs based on long-term and continuous contracts
❍Expanding concentrated procurement ❍ Building up cost databases
PBL
❍Formulation of Ministry of Defense’s version of PBL Guidelines (tentative)
❍Implementation of PBL Pilot Model ❍ Organizing contractual issues, etc.
Medical infrastructure
❍Setting up bases for SDF hospitals and enhancing their functions
❍Enhancing the functions of the National Defense Medical College
❍Building up information and communications infrastructure ❍ Building up medical control systems and infrastructure
Personnel development and
international cooperation activities
❍Enhancing medical officer training and reviewing career paths (preventing the early retirement of medical officers)
❍Establishing a four-year course system for nursing courses
❍Enhancing medical functions (surgical functions) in international cooperation activities
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