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The Department of Defense's Transformation Planning Guidance
(TPG) was signed by Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in early April. The TPG is essentially
a concise strategy of transformation and details specific
new responsibilities that various Pentagon offices, the
military services, and Joint Forces Command now have in
response to the guidance. AFEI is pleased to provide the
TPG document in cooperation with the Office of Force Transformation.
The Office of Force Transformation publishes a newsletter
called Transformation Trends as a means to highlight new
and emerging issues in defense and commercial realms to
key decision-makers.
VADM
Cebrowski's keynote presentation at
AFEI Network Centric Operations 2003 Conference, April 16, 2003
(PDF)
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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on DoD Transformation
"I'm frequently asked to describe transformation, and I can say this. Transformation
is not a single thing to be trotted out and looked at and inspected. Simply
put, transformation is change. It's change in the way we fight, in the way we
train,
in the way we exercise, but especially, it's change in the way we think and
how we approach our jobs." - Ft. Hood, Texas |
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What is Transformation?
An excerpt of key points from About
Force Transformation, an overview
of Force Transformation by Vice Admiral (Ret.) Arthur K. Cebrowski, Director,
Office of Force
Transformation
- Transformation is foremost a continuing
process. It does not have an end point.
- Transformation is meant to create or anticipate the future.
- Transformation is meant to deal with the co-evolution
of concepts, processes, organizations, and technology.
Change in any one of these areas necessitates
change
in all.
- Transformation is meant to create new competitive areas and new competencies.
- Transformation is meant to identify, leverage,
and even create new underlying principles for
the way things are done.
- Transformation is meant to identify and leverage new sources of power.
The overall objective of these changes is simply—sustained American competitive
advantage in warfare.
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