As stated in the introduction, General Fogleman tasked the 2025 participants to generate ideas and concepts on the capabilities the United States will require to dominate air and space in the future. A Bottom-Up Approach With this overarching objective defined, the Analysis team could start specifying subtasks, tasks, and functions. Early on, the team departed from the usual approach to constructing a value model. The bottom-up approach results in less institutional bias. Functions Functions are the high-level, aggregated tasks that must be accomplished to attain the overarching objective of air and space dominance .
Awareness is specified by the tasks detect , understand , and direct .
To have reach requires the ability to deploy, maintain, and replenish . Power comes from the ability to engage and survive. Reach - ability to move to expand the range or scope of influence or effect, and to sustain this influence or effect by maintaining and replenishing. Power - ability to overtly or covertly affect, control, manipulate, deny, exploit, or destroy targets, including forces, people, equipment, and information, and the ability to survive while affecting targets. The requirement for a set of functions in a value model to be mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive results in two critical implications.