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. First, these three 2025 functions should encompass every future air and space force operational activity. Second, awareness, reach , and power are the only operational activities that contribute to the overarching objective of air and space dominance.