Interagency Agreements

Global SOF and Interagency Collaboration

The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has emphasized the importance of international SOF collaboration, or what USSOCOM refers to as a “global SOF network.” It is difficult to achieve requisite levels of collaboration even among departments and agencies within a single country, much less on an international basis. Yet USSOCOM has been rightly praised for its trailblazing collab...

The RMA and the Interagency

The Joint Staff knows why interagency coordination does not occur. According to a Joint Staff memorandum, “in the past it has been extremely difficult to achieve coordinated interdepartmental planning” for two reasons: other agencies of the U. S. government do not understand “systematic planning procedures” and each agency has its own approach to solving problems. The State Department, for exam...

Filling Irregular Warfare’s Interagency Gaps

NSF Implementation Plan for Interagency Interim NREN

This document outlines an architecture and implementation plan for the National Science Foundation's Interagency Interim National Research and Education Network (NREN) component of the HPCC Program. The Interagency Interim NREN is intended as a near term research and development program to extend the capabilities and breadth of connectiv-ity of today's research and education (R&E) networks. Thi...

The NextGen JPDO Model of Interagency Planning

The Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) was chartered by Congress to create and carry out an integrated plan for a Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). The planning and facilitation model developed by the JPDO was derived from this legislation and the fundamental characteristics associated with an enterprise transformation of this magnitude and duration. Within that con...