Department of Sustainment and Force Management

Required Courses

There are two DSFM courses taught during Common Core (CC) for CGSC.

S100: Sustaining the Competitive Advantage

The Command and General Staff Officer Course developed S100: Sustaining the Competitive Advantage to educate and train new field grade officers on Joint and Army principles, processes, concepts, and capabilities used to generate and sustain combat power in support of Joint and Army operations.

This course is designed to enable the new field grade officer’s development and understanding of the continuity of sustainment support that exists from the strategic to tactical levels of war. S100 consist of seven lessons covering information on the Joint Logistics Enterprise, fiscal stewardship, operational contract support, and sustainment doctrine at the strategic, operational and tactical levels of war. These classes provide the roles, functions, capabilities and planning considerations required for the employment of sustainment organizations used to enable unified action and multidomain operations.

These lessons build upon the critical and creative thinking concepts introduced in the C100 Foundations block and integrate with and reinforce principles learned in C200, C300, C400, and C500 and draw upon historical examples discussed in H100. The knowledge developed in the S00 block will be directly applied throughout the Advanced Operations Course (AOC).

In the 17 hours allocated to S100, students will demonstrate how sustainment enables Joint and Army operations. Lesson sequence is as follows:

• S120: Sustainment at the National and Theater Strategic Levels (2 hours). This lesson sets the stage for the S100 block, and introduces the sustainment warfighting function, the levels of warfare, and key strategic sustainment providers at the national strategic and theater strategic levels.
• S130: Joint Logistics and Army Sustainment Support to Multidomain Operations (2 hours). This lesson introduces the Joint Logistics Enterprise, explains the joint logistics functions, and examines the capabilities that the U.S. Army provides to the Army Service Component Command and Combatant Commands in support of unified action.
• S150: Joint Logistics Planning (2 hours). This lesson describes the use of the joint logistics functions and introduces the joint logistics planning processes and planning products produced during this process.
• S142: Resource Management and Fiscal Stewardship (2 hours). This lesson explores resource management concepts, considerations and tools for developing and managing unit budgets, and the importance of fostering fiscal stewardship in operational units.
• S141: Army Health System and Human Resource Support for the Warfighter (3 hours). This lesson describes the critical roles that the Army Health System (AHS) and human resources (HR) play in sustaining and generating combat power to enable multidomain operations.

F100: Introduction to Force Management

The Command and General Staff Officer Course designed F100: Introduction to Force Management to educate and train predominantly US Army officers impact the future of their branch and profession through an understanding how the Army provides capabilities to combatant commanders.

Newly minted field grade officers must learn to look at the Army through an increasingly wider lens as their career progresses. Company grade officers focus on company-level operations with significant exposure to battalion-level activities but they possess minimal exposure to brigade and higher echelons. Up to this point, CGSC students have focused on how to make units more effective. Field grade officers must leverage a wider perspective, viewing the Army’s effectiveness as a whole. F100 enables students to view the Army as an enterprise that provides landpower capabilities to the combatant commander.

This course explores the Force Management Model in terms of primary systems, concepts, and joint/Army processes of change management, while also describing resource management to support integrating and maintaining capabilities at the unit level. CGSS considers force management to be a key topic in educating military professionals to understand the service both as an individual entity and as part of the Joint Force. CGSS does not expect students to leave as professional force managers but possessing a broad understanding of the processes and decision forums used to change the Army to meet the future operating environment. Students interested in a more in-depth study of these topics should consider CGSC’s elective A499: Force Management and Military Reform or any of the distance learning courses offered by the Army Force Management School or Defense Acquisition University.

In the 26 hours allocated to F100, students will demonstrate Department of Defense processes to provide capabilities to commanders. They will learn about multiple topics across four categories:

• Identify gaps and potential solutions. Two lessons (F101 and F102, 6.0 hours of classroom instruction) describe how strategic guidance leads to requirements and solutions.
• Develop solutions. Two lessons (F103 and F104, 6.0 hours of classroom instruction) describe how solutions are developed across DOTMLPF-P domains based on required capabilities.
• Resource solutions. Two lessons (F105 and F107, 6.0 hours of classroom instruction) explain how the Army allocates resources to support solutions.
• Integrate solutions. Two lessons (F106 and F111, 8.0 hours of classroom instruction) employ force integration to provide capability to combatant commanders.

The lesson sequence is as follows:

• F101: Foundations of Change (4 hours). This lesson sets the stage for the F100 block, including the historical thread of decisions and leadership challenges the Army faced in developing the Army of Desert Storm from the Army of Vietnam. The lesson discusses Title 10 and administrative control (ADCON), key strategic documents, and how they guide defense/Army change.
• F102: Capability Requirements, Gaps, and Solutions (2 hours). This lesson teaches how the Army develops concepts to meet strategic requirements and uses those concepts to identify required capabilities and solutions to capability gaps.
• F103: Materiel Development and Acquisition (4 hours). This lesson describes how the Army develops materiel solutions to provide capabilities to the combatant commanders. Students will examine hasty and deliberate methods. To add context, this lesson discusses previous modernization efforts including the Big Five, the Aegis system, and the Joint Strike Fighter.
• F104: Designing Army Units (2 hours). This lesson describes how the Army develops organizational solutions to provide capabilities to the combatant commanders.
• F105: Rightsizing the Army (4 hours). This lesson adds resourcing constraints to the organizational requirements discussed in the previous lesson. This allows the students to consider what the Army can afford to do rather than just what the Army should do. This lesson examines how the Army historically shaped its force to consider how it should shape it in the future.
• F106: Fielding and Integrating Capabilities (4 hours). This lesson describes how the Army integrates into the force the personnel and equipment solutions it developed through force management. This lesson also concludes the Vietnam to Desert Storm historical thread by considering how the Army’s post-Vietnam changes affected the current force and future force.
• F107: Army Resources (PPBE) (2 hours). This lesson describes the process the Department of Defense uses to align resources to priorities. Students will consider legal constraints and timelines for resourcing.
• F111: Force Management Application (4 hours). F111 is a dedicated time for students to present the solution they independently develop in a written change proposal. Each brief is limited to five minutes.

Electives

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