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UNCLASSIFIED Session: #6, Track: #9 Army KM

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2011-08-25T15:00Z // Warfighters’ Forum

WfF: A knowledge forum where “one learns and everyone knows.”

Session: #6 Track: Army KM Mr. John C. Pacey

HQ, US Army Forces Command


UNCLASSIFIED Session: #6, Track: #9 Army KM 2 2011-08-25T15:00Z // Warfighters’ Forum

PURPOSE: A comprehensive overview of the current ACOM level Warfighters’

Forum (WfF), WfF Lines of Effort, and way ahead for continually improving the

Forum to meet the needs of the soldier as the focus evolves from demand-based

to a supply-based Army.

OBJECTIVES: By the end of this presentation you will be able to:

Gain perspective on all of the WfF conduits utilized to coordinate KM

amongst the member ACOMs and the supporting AC/RC BCT and Functional

and Multi-Functional Brigades.

Gain an appreciation of the value added to the operating and generating

force as well as the continuous improvement built into the initiative to

maintain relevance

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• Proactively & Functionally aligned Communities of Purpose

• 4-Star enabled Direct Liaison Authority (DIRLAUTH) FORSCOM,

TRADOC, AMC, and IMCOM organizations; others in DA, Joint, DoD,

Interagency, and state/local offices.

• Senior Mentor directed & led lines of effort to include: symposiums,

web portals, interviews, and enduring operational activities

• Operationally enhanced manned sections collocated with each of the

ACOMs, Corps, and TRADOC Centers of Excellence (CoE)

Community of Purpose (CoP) :

Community of people structured to achieve a similar objective. Members of the

community assist each other by sharing knowledge, experiences, and accomplishments

for the efficiency and professional development of the whole group thereby enabling

and empowering people to achieve their tasks, goals, and objectives.



BCTs Supported 2009-2010 Products/Services

Symposiums Conducted

39

- Corps Commander open dialoged with BCT Cmdrs - Current OEF/OIF TTPs, OILs, Lessons Learned disseminated from BCT Cmdrs and staff in theater. - Unit Deployment related issues raised and solutions proposed

Post Deployment Data Collection events

38

- Umbrella week leader interviews and data collection results disseminated and archived. (ONS, TACSOPS, Targeting Cycles) - DOTMLPF issues cataloged, prioritized, and systematically resolved - All results published on WfF online portals

Pre-Deployment Unit Engagements

20 - MRE preparation assistance - Training and Theater related RFIs expeditiously answered - ARFORGEN train-up shortfalls identified and disseminated

Newsletters 127 - S/H/I BCT relevant articles, publication revisions, and Corps/ACOM leadership guidance/policy revisions distributed.

Long Term/Enduring assigned tasks

15

- Stryker Sr. Ldr Orientation - Forcible Entry proponency and oversight - SBCT Early Entry proponency and oversight - Ft. Hood New Senior Command Team Seminar - Army MRAP Working Group - Corps Transformation Council



Sustain:

+ Maintaining momentum of the Senior Mentor Symposiums

+ Contributing to and hastening TTP and doctrine development.

+ Resolving issues rapidly through procedures among the three ACOMs.

• Forcing function to quickly “harvest the pearls”

• Reinforcing collaborative Process Action Team effort to leverage the power of

the CoP to instill progressive business rules.

+ Prosecuting WfF as one of the Key Enablers for Army Knowledge Management

Improve:

- Employing the power of WfF to assist in the transition to Supply-Based

ARFORGEN and Full Spectrum Operations.

- Reinforcing methods and architecture for those under 35…digital natives… to

communicate effectively through WfF Web Portals.

- Integrating lessons learned and targeting effort into TRADOC schoolhouse POIs.

- Leveraging the use of WfF as a means to pursue Home Station Training and CTC

preparation for both the AC and the RC.



The WfF initiative provides a proactive means to promote collaboration,

the sharing of ideas, and to find solutions to common problems across

the total Army; and to assist brigade formations to learn, innovate,

decide, and act faster than their adversaries while operating in a

condition of persistent conflict.

WfF Concept

WfF Mission

• Enhance BCT leader, leader team, and unit training and operations

throughout the ARFORGEN process

• Incorporate lessons learned by all BCTs to improve future mission

performance

• Support preparation for and conduct of full spectrum operations

• Serve as conduits of AC/RC BCT and Functional/Multi-Functional

Brigade operational experience for all DOTMLPF issues



• A WfF with capabilities the field wants, enabled by a seamless enterprise driven architecture. Optimized to train as we fight!

• A basic web approach with interdependent capabilities that support virtual collaboration across the Army (ultimately Joint and Interagency)

• Uses the “best of breed” across networks…not redundant

• Can personalize WfF as easily as FaceBook and use it similarly

• We do not stifle WfF with bureaucracy, organization, hierarchy, and

rigor…no wiring diagrams!

It’s not so much what we call what we are building, who builds it, or who

runs it. It does matter that WE BUILD IT and make it work for our Army



Warfighters’ Forum Communities of Purpose

ARFORGEN

AC

RC

Output - Lessons Learned and best practices disseminated

- Training and operational solutions developed and

implemented

- Issues consolidated & disseminated for action

- Targeted web portals and newsletters



Sep 2011

WfF Action Officer

Board of Directors

Process Action Teams

Oct 2011

Nov 2011

TRADOC WfF WG FORSCOM WfF WG AMC WfF WG

WfF Action Officer

Board of Directors

(BoD)

WfF Ex Directors’

Steering Committee

WfF Four Star

Executive Council

• 2 Virtual Meetings

• 2 Live Meetings

• 2 Virtual Meetings FORSCOM G3 CHAIRS

WORKING GROUP

STRATEGIC

$$, Policy, Direction: EXTERNAL

OPERATIONAL

• Minimum of 1 Virtual Meeting FORSCOM CG CHAIRS



• Continued command emphasis

• Continued mentorship

• Improved communications

• Continuous Process Improvement

• Continuous constructive feedback

• Continued integration of emerging doctrine



4/25TH IBCT

173rd IBCT

JRMC

OEF

(3/101 Briefer)

100+ participants

17 IBCTs

7 Divisions

AC/RC

CALL, CAC ARCIC,

7 COEs, TCMs

JRTC (MCOE/ USAIS Briefer)

AMC

FORSCOM

FIRST ARMY AMEDD

OIF (256 LA ARNG Briefer)

(3/4 HBCT Briefer)

3/25 IBCT



WfF…Integrated,

linked and mutually

supporting

Knowledge

Networks !

Search

Capability

Links to Corps, TRADOC

COEs and other functional

and support nets



Stryker BCT WfF

Sustain WfF

Transition Team WfF

Infantry BCT WfF

Fires WfF

Heavy BCT WfF

MedWfF

Army Warfighters’ Forum (WfF)



• Transition resourcing effort from Demand to Supply-based (DEF to CEF and FSO] mission support to more efficiently prosecute Commander’s Lines of Effort.

• Achieve sustainable support of an Army level funding stream for WfF.

• Codify WfF in the Army Training and Leader Development Strategy, ACP, and AR 525-XXX

• Champion WfF as a means to expedite Army doctrine development

• Support efforts within HQDA G6 to hasten the development of an enterprise system architecture for WfF

• Advocate ACOM WfFs as “influencing arm” for Army Knowledge

Management development • Seek efficiencies with potentially competing initiatives through

coordination: CALL RAI, RAEP, etc



John C. (Craig) Pacey

Knowledge Management Officer

KM/WfF Office

Deputy Chief of Staff

HQ, US Army Forces Command

E-mail: [email protected]

Com: 910-728-8459

mailto:[email protected]

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