![]() ![]() The development of Lead Wing major force elements consisting of capabilities for mission generation, C2, and base operating support for expeditionary, sustainable ACE operations.8 It includes an increased emphasis on operations in, from, and through austere environments. ACE increases force survivability while generating combat power. ![]() Concepts and approaches for agile combat employment (ACE) for dispersed operations in contested environments that entail launching, recovering, and maintaining aircraft from dispersed forward operating locations rather than traditional main operating bases.The development and experimentation for the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) to connect “sensors” to “shooters” in support of JADO.Emerging concepts and doctrine for joint all-domain operations (JADO), 7 the evolution of joint operations and combined arms to enable integrating forces and capabilities from all domains, and synchronizing their actions to create desired effects at the time, place, and tempo of the commander’s choosing.Several efforts are underway across the Air Force to address these imperatives, including: Ensure resiliency against attacks on our C2 facilities, systems and processes, for continued combat effectiveness in contested environments.Effectively integrate and synchronize actions of global and theater forces across all domains to enable outcomes not readily achievable otherwise and.This future operating environment requires examining how forces will sense, plan, decide, and coordinate actions to achieve mission success. Operations in contested environments against a peer adversary will look very different than those that have taken place in largely permissive environments over the past two decades. Anti-access / area denial capabilities create contested environments that reduce the ability to conduct global operations across the competition continuum, 6 diminish freedom of maneuver, and challenge the Air Force’s ability to operate. Our adversaries have evolved their capabilities and operational approaches to avoid and counter our strengths. The reemergence of great power competition during a period of rapid technological advancement and proliferation has eroded the United States’ comparative military advantage. Today, joint force operations are increasingly interconnected, interdependent, and challenged. 5 As airpower concepts and capabilities matured amid a changing threat environment, decentralized execution later emerged as a principle for enabling maximum responsiveness to local conditions and requirements. The first half of the traditional airpower tenet-centralized control-was born out of concerns in World War II that dividing air forces into multiple organizations with separate chains of command would dilute their effectiveness. Fostering disciplined initiative and effective span of control at the tactical level through decentralized execution.Enabling delegation of planning, coordination, and assessment activities to dispersed locations or subordinate echelons as appropriate and feasible through distributed control 4.Concentrating the responsibility and authority for deciding, directing, and approving military operations through centralized command.Given the global reach and strategic effects of airpower, the Air Force’s approach to mission command requires continually balancing the need for tactical flexibility, management of global risks, requirements for precise effects synchronization, and the logistical challenges and realities of forward operations. 3 Mission command provides Airmen operating in environments of increasing uncertainty, complexity, and rapid change with the freedom of action needed to exploit emergent opportunities and succeed. Mission command is a leadership philosophy that empowers subordinate decision-making for flexibility, initiative, and responsiveness in the accomplishment of commander’s intent. This article describes the motivation for this change, frames mission command from an Airman’s perspective, and articulates practical implementation considerations for centralized command, distributed control, and decentralized execution. 1 It is an evolution of the long-standing airpower tenet of centralized control and decentralized execution (CCDE), 2 intended to provide a unifying framework for the development of new operating concepts, organizational approaches, and materiel solutions that address the challenges posed by the future operating environment. The new Air Force Doctrine Publication (AFDP) 1 formally establishes mission command as the philosophy for the command and control (C2) of airpower, to be implemented through centralized command, distributed control, and decentralized execution.
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