the timelines for the Afghan process, which is based on the solar calendar, and the U.S. process do not line up neatly, they are mutually supporting; the body of work from one feeds the other. (See Figure 1.)


Te end product of working together and integrating requirements during this cycle enabled a comprehensive understanding of all requirements by all parties: Afghans, the coalition and the international donor community. (See Figure 2, Page 26.) Tis shared under- standing across a larger community is a significant sign of progress as CSTC-A prepares for the NATO Warsaw Summit in summer 2016.


MINISTRY OF DEFENSE Te MOD uses a bottom-up process to generate requirements, which at times is complicated by literacy difficulties and a lack of Internet connectivity. Regardless, the MOD PA&E office collects require- ments from all levels of the Afghan National Army (including special opera- tions and air forces). Tese requirements are based on operational need and do not yet take fiscal constraints into account.


Te assistant minister of defense’s Strat- egy and Policy, Program and Analysis Department collects and vets the require- ments, after which program working groups


(PWGs) comprising O-6-level


subject-matter experts validate the jus- tification and link requirements to the national strategy, if possible. Once the MOD PA&E office develops the bud- get circular, it passes the circular to the financial


arm of the MOD for final


adjustments before it is submitted to the MOF.


In 2015, or solar year 1395, the MOD produced, for the first time, a budget based on a prioritized 1-N list of all


MAKING PROGRESS MG Todd T. Semonite, third from left, then the commander of CSTC-A, meets with CJ-8 staff and staff from the MOI following an integrated GOSC meeting. CSTC-A uses DOD’s PPBE process, whereby requirement owners across the coalition identify requirements in a bottom-up approach. (Photo by Wil Okraku, CSTC-A CJ-8)


WELL-GROUNDED REQUIREMENTS


Lt. Gen. Qadim Shah, center left, chief of staff for the Afghan National Army, talks with the commander of the ANA’s 111th Capital Division during a battlefield circulation for Operation Iron Triangle in August 2015. Requirements from throughout the army develop from the bottom up; the MOD’s PA&E office collects them and moves them up the ministry’s chain of review, after which Afghan defense officials submit them to the MOF. (Photo by Capt Susan Harrington, Resolute Support Public Affairs)


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