15th Air Mobility Operations Squadron
AMD WAY AHEAD
Lt Col DeMarco
DIRMOBFOR Future Ops/Strategy
15 AMOS/CC
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OVERVIEW
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The Problem
The Program
The End State
Let’s Crawl
“The AOC is fundamental to what makes us great as an Air Force… If
you have a group of airplanes but you don't have an AOC, you don't
really have an air force. You have a flying club."
-- Lt. Gen. Ronald E. Keys, deputy chief of staff for air and space operations,
Headquarters U.S. Air Force,
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The Problem
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“How should the AMD be structured to support the
future direction of the Air Force and the Joint
Community”
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In a snapshot: What should the AOC/AMD and Air
Mobility Operations Squadrons look like in 2017?
Three targets to achieve that goal: developing and fusing technology,
training and managing command and control workers, and
standardizing the centers.
-- Lt. Gen. Ronald E. Keys, deputy chief of staff for air and space operations,
Headquarters U.S. Air Force,
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Assumptions
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2017 Assumptions
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The USAF will get smaller; we will have less
people…theaters will not have enough Airman to man
AOC at greater than day to day levels
 Technology should increase capability
 The US will remain globally engaged
• “Rumsfeld braces for more violence in Iraq: Says insurgency could endure ‘for
any number of years,’ perhaps until 2017,” Associated Press, 26 June 2005 .
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AOC will be integrated in a greater and more synergistic
way with our Joint partners
 Military budget will get smaller
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The Program
AMD Structure
MAF C2 Culture
Codify AMD-LE
REACHBACK
Single AMOS
Associate AMOS
Joint Integration
Budget Savings
AMCT
ALCT AMD ARCT
AECT
Support Team
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The Program
AMD Structure
MAF C2 Culture
Codify AMD-LE
REACHBACK
Single AMOS
Associate AMOS
Joint Integration
Budget Savings
AMCT
ALCT AMD ARCT
AECT
Support Team
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The Program
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Adjust AMD team names:
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Problem: The name Air Mobility Control Team does not
adequately explain what the team does.
 By DoD definition: air mobility is the rapid movement of
personnel, materiel and forces to and from or within a
theater by air. This includes both airlift and air refueling.
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MAF C2
AMD
Sustainment
AMD
AMOCC/AMD
18 AF/TACC
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The Air Mobility Division provides effects-based
planning, execution, and assessment of theaterassigned airlift, air refueling, and aeromedical
operations in support of the Combatant Commander.
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The Program
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AMC AMD CONOPS for AOC Standardization
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15th AMOS has authored an AMOS CONOPS
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Continue effort with 21 AMOS for approval from AMC
Develop annexes for each theater
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PAOC
USAFE
CAOC
HTACC
AFSOUTH
AFNORTH
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The Program
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Present to AMC/CV or CC for approval and signature
Update annually at AMD Summit
Rewrite every 3 years
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The Program
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AMD Organization:
The courage of our Airmen to push
beyond the existing technical horizons
and battle the status quo is a hallmark
of our Air Force.
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“Infused or Matrixed” operations
ALDO/TDO
Tanker MAAPers
Strategists
Ops
Plans
Future Ops
Strat
AMD
ISRD
Mobility IN
CAF Centric
Integral to Ops in AOC
All work together thru the ATO cycle
Works internal to the AOC
Works External with CDDOC
USTC, TACC, JMC, etc
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Is there more than one type of AMD?
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AMOS AMD
 Sustainment AMD
 AMOCC/AMD
 Reachback/Distributed AMD
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AMD Phases
Hostilities begin
Or…event occurs
Phase I - III
Phase IV
Occupation?
Mature Theater
AMD Life Cycle
Combat Centric
Rapid Deployment
-Airbase opening
-Bed down
-Initial Requirements
-HUMRO
-Air Bridge
AMOS AMD
Requirements predictable
Bed down complete
Bases open
Airbridge down
Steady State
Adapt to the CFACC
Adapt to the CFACC
Sustainment AMD
CAOC Today
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The Program
AMD Structure
MAF C2 Culture
Codify AMD-LE
REACHBACK
Single AMOS
Associate AMOS
Joint Integration
Budget Savings
AMCT
ALCT AMD ARCT
AECT
Support Team
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The Program
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C2 Warrior Culture
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Develop our Mid-Level Captains for AOC/AMD
Leadership
• 5 Week FTU at HRT
• Informal Contract to serve an AOC Tour within 1 year of
course completion
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CAOC/CENTAF
JCS-Level Ex
AMOS Assignment
TACC
7th AF HTACC
USAFE, PACAF, SOUTHAF, NORTHAF
These are our future AMD Chiefs, AMOS/CC and
DIRMOBFORs
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The Program
AMD Structure
MAF C2 Culture
Codify AMD-LE
REACHBACK
Single AMOS
Associate AMOS
Joint Integration
Budget Savings
AMCT
ALCT AMD ARCT
AECT
Support Team
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The Program
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Future REACHBACK Operations
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Every Theater is different, Every AMD is different
 What does the War Fighter need?
 Some Theaters may operate through REACHBACK
 AMOS AMD-LE
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AMD Chief
And AMD deputy
ALCT Chief
ARCT Chief
AMCT Chief
AECT Chief
Probably some systems types
REACHBACK to either the AMOS/AMD or TACC
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The Program
AMD Structure
MAF C2 Culture
Codify AMD-LE
REACHBACK
Single AMOS
Associate AMOS
Joint Integration
Budget Savings
AMCT
ALCT AMD ARCT
AECT
Support Team
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REACHBACK
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Fully supporting air operations centers with sufficient
numbers of trained personnel and expanding the
"reachback" capabilities to evaluate data collected by
unmanned aircraft and orbiting satellites would also
dramatically increase joint capabilities --Gen Duncan
McNabb
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The Program
AMD Structure
MAF C2 Culture
Codify AMD-LE
REACHBACK
Single AMOS
Associate AMOS
Joint Integration
Budget Savings
AMCT
ALCT AMD ARCT
AECT
Support Team
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The Program
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Single AMOS
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PBD 720 Cuts and impacts
 2 Squadrons = 225+ Airmen
• Could save 45 Airmen with a Single Squadron of 180
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The AMD Center of Excellence
• Assist HQ AMC in leading the AMD effort on a Global scale
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Future thought/Mobility War Plans Experts
IG Augmentation
Theater SAV
Training and Stan/Eval for the USAF
Testing C2 systems
TACC/XOP liaisons and integration
• While serving in JCS Level Exs and Theater Augmentation
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The Program
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Global Engagement in light of PBD-720
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TDY Rates:
• 15 AMOS = 137
• Airlifters = 126
• Tankers = 138
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We are all busy and getting busier
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1 Year CAOC Assignments
 Associate AMOS
 USAF AMD SEI Holders
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The Program
AMD Structure
MAF C2 Culture
Codify AMD-LE
REACHBACK
Single AMOS
Associate AMOS
Joint Integration
Budget Savings
AMCT
ALCT AMD ARCT
AECT
Support Team
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The Program
AMD Structure
MAF C2 Culture
Codify AMD-LE
REACHBACK
Single AMOS
Associate AMOS
Joint Integration
Budget Savings
AMCT
ALCT AMD ARCT
AECT
Support Team
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The Program
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The JOINT Arena
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DDOC and Theater Enterprise Deployment and
Distribution (TED2)
They engineer and manage the machine-to-machine interfaces that allow the
Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) to command an aircraft to change its
target set in mid-mission while a satellite guides delivery of a munition to a precise
coordinate. They will continue to tighten the linkages among and between our air, sea,
and ground forces. Our Airmen will continue doing what they do best for the
Joint Team – dominating air and space.
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TED2
Function
System
Source
Air / Surface Manifest
DGATES
AMC
Airlift C2
GDSS
AMC
Airlift Quick-Turn MX
GO81
AMC
Collaborative Tool
IWS
AMC/USTC
E-mail
Outlook
Intelligence
SIPR NIPR
Type
X
Web-Based
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Web-Based
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Web-Based
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X
Web-Based
AMC
X
X
Web-Based
PCI3
AMC
X
ITV / TAV
GTN
USTC
X
X
Web-Based
ITV / TAV
SMS
USTC
X
X
Web-Based
ITV / TAV
RFITV
Army
X
Web-Based
Log Plans & ITV
BCS3
SDDC
X
Thick Client
RFID/ITV
EEDSK/PDK
SDDC
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Wireless or LAN
Surface Load Planning
ICODES
SDDC
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Stand Alone
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Web-Based
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JIPRL
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The JDDOC will:
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Collect, validate, analyze, prioritize and synchronize all intratheater airlift requirements.
 Manage the Joint Integrated Prioritized Requirements List
(JIPRL) analyzing for theater workload and prioritization.
 Serve as an Information Fusion Cell gathering data and reports
for analysis and dissemination.
 Provide scheduling and execution oversight for the purpose of
ensuring and reporting timely requirement closure.
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The Air Mobility Division will:
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Define Theater Capability with respect to assigned airlift
resources.
 Plan and schedule all intra-theater airlift missions for movement
of intra-theater requirements in accordance with theater and ATO
priorities.
 Provide C2 for missions in execution.
 Track mission requirements to ensure timely closure.
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The Program
AMD Structure
MAF C2 Culture
Codify AMD-LE
REACHBACK
Single AMOS
Associate AMOS
Joint Integration
Budget Savings
AMCT
ALCT AMD ARCT
AECT
Support Team
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The Program
AMD Structure
MAF C2 Culture
Codify AMD-LE
REACHBACK
Single AMOS
Associate AMOS
Joint Integration
Budget Savings
AMCT
ALCT AMD ARCT
AECT
Support Team
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Program Partners
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The way ahead is a program or enterprise solution
with a myriad of players
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A1
A3
A5
A6
A9
USTRANSCOM
15/21 AMOS
AMWC
TACC
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Strategy
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"the practical adaptation of the means placed at a
general’s disposal to the attainment of the object in
view." In Moltke's formulation, military strategy is
clearly a means to political ends.
 Liddell Hart arrives at this short definition of strategy:
"the art of distributing and applying military means to
fulfill the ends of policy."
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Strategy
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Strategy is that which top management does that is of great
importance to the organization.
Strategy refers to basic directional decisions, that is, to purposes
and missions.
Strategy consists of the important actions necessary to realize
these directions.
Strategy answers the question: What should the organization be
doing?
Strategy answers the question: What are the ends we seek and
how should we achieve them?
George Steiner, a professor of management and one of the
founders of The California Management Review, is generally
considered a key figure in the origins and development of
strategic planning. His book, Strategic Planning [2],
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Strategy
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Henry Mintzberg, in his 1994 book, The Rise and Fall
of Strategic Planning [3], points out that people use
"strategy" in several different ways, the most common
being these four:
 Strategy is a plan, a "how," a means of getting from
here to there.
 Strategy is a pattern in actions over time; for example,
a company that regularly markets very expensive
products is using a "high end" strategy.
 Strategy is position; that is, it reflects decisions to
offer particular products or services in particular
markets.
 Strategy is perspective, that is, vision and direction.
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