In February 2003, the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Industrial Policy, ODUSD(IP), produced Transforming the Defense Industrial Base: A Roadmap. This report identified the need for systematic evaluation of the ability of the defense industrial base to develop and provide functional, operational effects-based warfighting capabilities. The Defense Industrial Base Capabilities Study (DIBCS) series is a systematic assessment of critical technologies needed in the 21st century defense industrial base to meet warfighter requirements as framed by the Joint Staff s functional concepts. In addition, the DIBCS series provides the basis for strengthening the industrial base that provides solutions to warfighting needs and from which the Joint Staff develops its Joint Integrating Concepts and Joint Operating Concepts. This report addresses the second of those functional concepts, Joint Command and Control.

"This report, the fifth and final in the initial Defense Industrial Base Capabilities Study (DIBCS) series, employs a logical, systematic methodology to do this"--Page vii.

Restructuring of military forces will challenge the U.S. capability to execute the National Security Strategy. This strategy requires the continued capability to deter strategic war and respond to crisis; also we need the capability to replenish war reserves after military intervention and reconstitution of new forces in response to a renewed global threat. Adjusting to the defense drawdown through new management practices will insure a responsive Defense Industrial Base for the next decade. The success of the Gulf War may erroneously suggest a capability to fight a protracted war or to reconstitute forces. Despite the clear statements of policy in DoD Directive 5000.1, it is almost impossible to find any acquisition program document that addresses the Defense Industrial Base. This study will present the objectives desired from the defense industrial base, the courses of action the Army can pursue to attain those objectives and the tools available to Army leadership.