Objectives

  • Serve as focal point within the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) on all issues and activities related to readiness of America's Armed Forces.
  • Develop and oversee policies and programs to ensure the readiness of US Forces for peacetime contingencies, crises, and warfighting.
  • Provide support to the Department of Defense (DoD) Senior Readiness Oversight Council, the Readiness Working Group, and ad hoc high level readiness task forces.
  • Develop and oversee DoD training policies and programs including the cost-effective application of training systems and technologies.
  • Develop and oversee training policies and programs to ensure that training programs and resources are sufficient to produce ready forces.
  • Serve as the DoD focal point for innovations in training such as the Advanced Distributed Learning initiative.
  • Participate in DoD planning, programming and budgeting activities related to readiness, training and crisis planning and response.
  • Oversee and initiate analyses and studies that support DoD's readiness, training and crisis planning and response functions.