An analysis of the development of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff program assessment (CPA) and the Chairman's program recommendation (CPR)
By: John K. Bozick
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Description: The Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 redefined the role of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs      of Staff (Chairman). The Chairman now assumes many additional roles and responsibilities including the      development of the Department of Defense (DoD) budget submission to the President. Two critical elements      of this development are the Chairman's Program Assessment (CPA) and the Chairman's Program      Recommendation (CPR). This thesis analyzes the CPA and CPR development process. The modem military      of today must engage in a complex game of mixing requirements, capabilities, mission identification, threat,      and politics to field the world's premier military force. The introduction of the Joint Warfighting Capability      Assessment (JWCA) process improved the process of service requirements analysis. The Chairman      combines these assessments and recommendations into the CPA and CPR. Extensive research was      conducted into the historical role of the Chairman relating to the requirements generation and resource      allocation processes within the DoD. Numerous interviews of current Joint Staff and Navy Staff personnel      familiar with the CPA and CPR were also conducted. Findings show the CPA and CPR are closely held      documents considered personal correspondence between the Chairman and the Secretary of Defense. This      situation creates the potential to dramatically alter Service and Agency POM submissions.
Notes: Thesis advisor(s): Jerry L. McCaffery, John E. Mutty.

"June 1998."

Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, June 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-77)

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