Coalition Warfare

The Pentagon acquisition office recently released its updated "Coalition Warfare Management Plan" for fiscal years 2013-2014.

Coalition Warfare Program projects "enable Project Teams to move a technology into the next stage of development or prepare for transition to operational forces," the program's website states. Further:

These projects may also form the basis for future cooperation with our international partners.  CWP pursues projects that enhance and increase U.S. and coalition defense capabilities in support of technological or political objectives. Funded projects accelerate the delivery of high-quality solutions to warfighter problems, improve U.S. interoperability with its coalition partners, and strengthen global partnerships. CWP projects support DoD acquisition by:

*    Helping program offices convert U.S.-only projects into coalition solutions for the U.S. warfighter

*    Influencing coalition interoperability in major programs that will have far-reaching use by U.S. forces

*    Addressing requirements of combined operations early in a program’s development cycle to avert risks to joint/coalition operations and avoid costs associated with adding requirements later in the acquisition process

*    Enabling U.S. DoD access to leading-edge global technology

*    Providing significant cost savings to the DoD while maintaining a strong research and development base

As a research and development funding source in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, CWP strives to bridge the gap between the Combatant Commanders/operational components of the Services and the development and acquisition organizations.  CWP funding incentivizes the R&D community to build and sustain solutions to COCOM and operational component capability gaps.

View the FY-13/14 Coalition Warfare Management Plan.