3 star program review
Deputy Management Action Group (DMAG)
Secretary of Defense Large & Small Groups
What are the OSD Decision Making Forums?
Goldwater Nichols DoD Reorganization Act 1986
What law identifies the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff as senior ranking member of the
Armed Services
The Secretary of Defense to the Combatent Commanders
The military operational chain of command runs from the President to whom?
President and Secretary of Defense
The Commanders of the Combatant Commands are responsible to whom for
accomplishing the assigned military mission?
President, National Security Council, Secretary of Defense
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the principal advisor to which officials and/or
organizations?
President
Who serves as Chairman of the National Security Council
Planning, Programming, Budget
Name the three major phases of the PPBE process that result in the DoD portion of the
Presidents Budget that is submitted to Congress
PPBE (planning, programming, Budget, execution)
What is the name of the process used by the DoD to determine the dollar amounts for
programs to be submitted to Congress as part of the Presidents Budget
Under Secretary of Defense (Policy)
What is the title of the senior OSD official responsible for the planning phase of the
PPBE process
Director, Cost Assessment and Program evaluation D,CAPE
What is the title of the senior OSD official who is responsible for issuing programming
guidance?
Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer
What is the title of the senior OSD official who is principal advisor and assistent to the
SECDEF for budget and financial matters?
Defense Acquisition Board (DAB)
The Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics) serves as the
Chairman of what Board
POM 2017 - 2021
Assume todays date is 1 March 2014 and your organization knows about a new project
or requirement that will require its initial funding in FY 2021. What is the first PPBE
related document in which you could identify resources for that requirement
Defense Planning Guidance (DPG)
What is the title of the final document of the planning phase?
,Integrated Program/Budget Review Guidance
What is the title of the document prepared by the D,CAPE and USD(C) in the May to
June time frame that provides guidance to Components for preparation of their POM
and BES submissions?
Future Years Defense Program (FYDP)
What is the name of the automated database that summarizes all forces, resources,
and equipment associated with programs approved by the Secretary of Defense?
Budgeting (Budget Development)
What is the phase of the PPBE process in which programmatic decisions are translated
into requested resources in an appropriations format
Chairman's Program Assessment (CPA) {Chairman, JCS}
What is the name of the document prepare by the Joint Staff after its review of POMs
submitted by the Military Departments that focuses on the balance and capabilities
contained in those POMs? (This document provides SECDEF with the JCS evaluation
of the Military Departments submissions)
Issue Resolution
Near the end of the budget review process the SECDEF and DEPSEC may conduct a
review of Component major policy or budget issues that have not yet been resolved.
Resolution of these issues may displace other programs within the fixed DoD topline.
What is the name of this review?
Resource Management Decision
Following a review of a Component's budget submission and a potential budget hearing
in the fall timeframe the reviewing USD(C) budget analyst prepares a draft document
that is submitted to the DEPSECDEF or SECDEF for a decision. Once signed by one of
those senior officials , what is the document called?
Comptroller Information System (CIS)
After all resource-related decisions have been made by the DEPSECDEF or SECDEF
to determine the Defense portion of the President's Budget, the USD(C) posts final
decisions into a database in the proper appropriation account format. What is the title of
that database?
Full Funding Policy
Advance Procurement is an exception to what funding policy?
An appropriation bill (becomes law when signed by President)
Within what type of document does Congress specify the number of fiscal years that an
appropriation account remains current and available for new obligations?
Contracts and MIPRS
There are two primary methods by which DoD obligates the vast majority of its
appropriations. Name those two methods
De-obligate
Assume an agency has issued an Economy Act order to another Federal Agency for
specific services, the cited appropriation has gone into an expired status and the
servicing agency has neither provided the ordered services nor has entered into an
authorized contract with another entity to provide ordered services. What must now be
done with those obligated funds?
Transfer action
What is the term used for shifting funds between appropriations?
,To break even
What is the long term financial goal of a working capital fund?
Civilian GS-13 rate (and the proper MILPER account is reimbursed for that
amount)
A working capital fund has an officer (O-4) properly assigned to the organization and
that officer is doing the work that would normally be performed by a GS-13. For
managerial cost accounting purposes, is the "cost" of that officer's pay and benefits
"charged" at the military O-4 rate or the civilian GS-13 rate?
Credit the refund to the miscellaneous receipts of the US Treasury
Assume your organization overpaid a contractor on a contract awarded with an
appropriation that is now in the cancelled status, and the contractor has sent in a check
for that overpayment. What can your organization legally do with that refund from the
contractor?
Non-appropriated Funds
Monies not appropriated by Congress that are generated primarily from the sale of
goods and services are known as what?
Deter war and To protect the security of our country
What is the mission of the DoD?
3 Military Departments (Army, Navy, Air Force)
17 Defense agencies
Multiple field activites
Who reports to the SECDEF?
National Security Act of 1947
What was most basic reorganization of Defense activities since Congress created the
Navy Department in 1798?
National Security Act of 1947
What act established the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, a
civilian Secretary of Defense, the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), and the
Joint Chiefs of Staff?
SECDEF
Who is the principle Defense advisor to the President?
Goldwater Nichols DoD Reorganization Act of 1986
This ACT identified the Chairman of the JCS as the senior ranking member of the
armed forces.
Chairman of the JCS
Who is the principal military advisor to the President, the National Security Council and
the SECDEF?
Chairman of the JCS
Who advises the SECDEF on non-financial related matters such as:
-Critical deficiencies and strengths of the forces
-priorities of the requirements identified by commanders of the combatant command
-Defense acquisition programs
OPERATIONAL
*CIVILIAN CONTROL OF THE MILITARY*
, The ________ chain of command runs from the President to the SECDEF to the
commanders of the Combatant Commands?
SECDEF to CJCS - Vice Chair JCS - Military Components - Joint Staff (J1-J8)
Organizational structure of Joint Chiefs of Staff
CJSC is not in the operational chain of command
Is the Chairman in the operational chain of command between the President and
Combatant Commands
Planning (Operating, Contingency, Long Range)
What is the main mission of the JCS?
Transmits to the commanders of the Combatant Commands the orders of the
President or the SECDEF
What is the JCS function within the chain of command?
President (Chairman), Vice President, SECDEF, Secretary of State, Secretary of
Energy
Who are the principal members of the National Security Council (NSC)?
The President's principal form for consideration of national security and foreign
policy matters
What is the purpose of the National Security Council (NSC)?
National Security Presidential Directives
The National Security Strategy (NSS) comes from the National Security Council. What
is the name of the document that contains the discussions/decisions for the National
Security Council?
P - Principals
A- Advisors
P- Participants
NSC is composed of...
Counter Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
Deter and Defeat Aggression
Project Power Despite Anti-Access/Area Denial Challenges
Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction
Operate Effectively in Cyberspace and Space
Maintain a Safe, Secure, and Effective Nuclear Deterrent
Defend the Homeland and Provide Support to Civil Authorities
Provide a stabilizing Presence
Conduct Stability and Counterinsurgency Operations
Conduct Humanitarian, Disaster Relief
What are the Defense Strategic Guidance to achieve National Security Strategy
Objectives?
Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR)
WHAT IS PREPARED EVERY FOUR YEARS FOLLOWING A PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION TO SUMMARIZE THE MILITARY GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGY
FOR THE COMING FOUR YEARS?
Developed by Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Addresses objectives in the DoD Strategic Plan that need military response.
Recommendations are the plan to accomplish the goals in the National Security
Strategy
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