Question

What are two ways to see Total Army Analysis affecting a future as a Sergeant Major is personnel requirements when developing the Army Program Objective Memorandum (POM) force, and equipment authorizations?

Answer 1

Total Army Analysis (TAA)
I. Force Development Process (overview)
1. The focus of this primer is the Total Army Analysis process. In order to understand the TAA
process, it is imperative that a person understand of where TAA fits into the larger process
which is called Force Development.
2. Use this primer to supplement information provided in the Army War College text “How the
Army Runs”, FM 100-11 Force Integration, and Army Regulation 71-11 Total Army
Analysis.
3. Force development is the start point, rationale and underlying basis for defining the Army’s
force structure. The Force Development Process consists of defining military capabilities,
designing force structures to provide these capabilities, and translating organizational
concepts based on the threat, doctrine, technologies, materiel, manpower requirements, and
limited resources into a trained and ready Army. The five phases are:
a. Develop Capabilities
b. Design Organizations
c. Develop Organizational Models
d. Determine Organizational Authorizations
e. Document Organizational Authorizations
4. The five phases of the force development process are displayed at figure 1. This model
reflects a sequence of events and how these functions relate to each other. The resulting
products of force development provide the basis for acquiring and distributing materiel and
acquiring, training, and distributing personnel in the Army. It is useful to use the Army Force
Development Process to visualize how each step relates to the other steps and contributes to
the accomplishment of each task.

Develop capabilities.
1) The force development process has its roots in the Joint Capabilities Integration and
Development System (JCIDS). A separate primer (Capabilities Development and
Systems Acquisition Management), discussing the JCIDS process, can be found on the
Army

The focus of JCIDS is to resolve identified capabilities gaps, perceived deficiencies and
/ or shortcomings in the joint force. The objective of JCIDS is to develop solutions that
are affordable, militarily useful, and supportable to the combatant commanders. JCIDS
develops integrated, joint capable solutions within the domains of DOTMLPF
(doctrine, organizational structure, training, materiel, leadership and education,
personnel and facilities). The process examines where we are, where we want to be,
what risks we may face and what it might cost.
3) The analysis process is composed of a structured, three-phased capabilities-based
assessment (CBA) methodology that identifies tasks, determines capability gaps and
redundancies, and proposed DOTMLPF approaches to resolve or mitigate validated
capability gaps. U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Army
Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC) assesses the future warfighting concepts
through a series of analyses, tests, experiments and studies to gain insights across
DOTMLPF. Using the integrated capabilities development teams (ICDT) management
technique, TRADOC pursues timely involvement of appropriate agencies/expertise to
aggressively identify and work issues. TRADOC establishes force operating
capabilities (FOCs) as the foundation upon which to base the assessment process. These
critical, force-level, measurable statements of operational capability frame how the
Army will realize advanced full spectrum operations as stated in the approved capstone
concept. The FOCs focus the Army’s Science and Technology Master Plan (ASTMP)