Six Critical Operational Goals for Transformation

„ Protecting Critical Bases of Operations (U.S. homeland, forces deployed, allies, and friends) from CBRNE weapons and their means of delivery. „ Projecting and sustaining U.S. forces in distant anti-access and area-denial environments and defeating anti-access and area-denial threats. „ Denying enemies sanctuary by providing persistent surveillance, tracking and rapid engagement with high-volume precision strike, through a combination of complementary air and ground capabilities, against critical mobile and fixed targets. „ Assuring information systems in the face of attack and conducting effective information operations. „ Enhancing the capability and survivability of space systems and supporting infrastructure. „ Leveraging information technology and innovative concepts to develop an interoperable, joint C4ISR architecture and capability that includes a tailorable joint operational picture. The Army capabilities described in the preceding chapters support the six critical operational goals for Defense Transformation. The following is a summary of key updates from the information related to COGs provided in last year's Roadmap. The Army's efforts to protect critical bases of operations and defeat CBRNE weapons and their means of delivery continue along two mutually supporting axes: protecting the U.S. homeland, our most important responsibility, and protecting the Joint Force. The latter subsumes the defense of allies and friends from whose territory the Joint Force might operate. The Army has begun several organizational initiatives to transform its support to HLS. Working closely with NORTHCOM, the Army will complete the development of its underlying concept for homeland defense in 2004. Supporting the HLS JOC, the Army will continue to provide unique capabilities for HLD, CS, and EP. To improve its ability to support CBRNE defense both in the homeland and to the Joint Force, the Army will form a CBRNE command. This command will integrate, coordinate, deploy, and provide trained and ready CBRNE defense forces, and will exercise command and control of full-spectrum CBRNE operations to JFCs. The CBRNE command will also provide Army support to civil authorities for homeland defense, while maintaining technical links with appropriate joint, federal, and state CBRNE assets, as well as research, development and technical communities to assure Army CBRNE response