resources, specifically a firm Afghan Security Forces Fund (ASFF) amount, which many times meant having to find trade- offs within their portfolios. As part of the coalition’s corporate POM process, consolidated requirement lists for both ministries were presented during four separate council-of-colonels sessions, two for the MOD and two for the MOI. At these sessions, OPR chiefs had the opportunity to discuss mission impacts of fund- ing shortfalls. Te programming and analysis teams of both ministries attended each of the council-of-colonels sessions. Te entire program was subsequently reviewed at the general officer level during two separate general officer steering committees, one for each ministry, and again with Afghan leadership present to observe the process. (See Figure 1.)
From the beginning, coalition leadership was keen to protect critical programs such as human capital, special operations forces, gender initiatives, the Afghan Air Force and the national maintenance strategy for both ministries, as much as possible. However, having an ASFF top-line amount forced some difficult decisions even in these critical areas.
Eventually, what resulted was an executable, balanced program with more than 300 validated requirements, meeting strategic goals that best serve the needs of Afghanistan. Te coalition programmed 54 percent of funding for sustainment initiatives, 35 percent for operations requirements and 11 percent for opera- tional support.
CREATING THE J-BOOK Sixteen OPR review boards, four integrated program reviews, four council-of-colonel
sessions, two general officer steering
committees and the CSTC-A commander’s approval of the POM culminated in the submission of the FY17 Overseas
A COLLABORATIVE PROCESS
MSgt Neal Harris and MSgt Andrea Brown, management advisers with Train Advise Assist Command – Air Force (TAAC-Air), meet with their Afghan Air Force (AAF) counterpart in September 2015 to discuss the AAF’s unit manning document, or Tashkil, to help shape the future of the Afghan national defense and security forces. The Tashkil is the Afghan manpower requirements document that identifies the people and resources needed to sustain the force and complete its mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt Eydie Sakura, TAAC-Air)
What makes this list so different from all the others is how it came to be. For the first time ever, the requirements-build process to create it was accomplished with the Afghans, to jointly capture all of the ANDSF requirements.
Contingency Operation Afghanistan Security Forces Fund J-Book to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Te J-Book provides brief descriptions of and justifications for each require- ment, summarizes the results of operations in Afghanistan to date and breaks down the funding request by budget activ- ity group (defense forces, interior forces and related activities), subactivity group (sustainment, infrastructure, equipment and transportation, and training and operations), as well as total ANDSF requirements with projected funding sources.
Apart from the ASFF (on- and off-budget), other funding sources for the POM include the NATO Trust Fund, the Law and Order Trust Fund for Afghanistan (LOTFA), and the government of Afghanistan itself. Te Afghans are executing the ASFF on- budget requirements themselves, meaning funds are transferred to the Afghan Ministry of Finance and distributed to the MOD and MOI for execution, thereby enabling the use of Afghan pur- chasing procedures and contract vehicles. Many times, this means cheaper prices for end items, since most are locally procured,
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