Appendix E GOLDWATER-NICHOLS ACT IMPLEMENTATION REPORT

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GOLDWATER-NICHOLS ACT IMPLEMENTATION REPORT

This appendix contains the Department’s Joint Officer Management Annual Report for FY 1997. Except for the progress/compliance with Section 619a, Title 10, United States Code, Tables E-2, E-5, reasons in Tables E-9 and E-11, and promotion objectives, the Joint Duty Assignment Management Information System was used to produce this report.

PROGRESS/COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 619a, TITLE 10, U.S. CODE

Section 931 of the FY 1994 National Defense Authorization Act required each Service to develop and implement personnel plans to permit the orderly promotion of officers to brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half). As addressed by the certification report submitted to Congress in June 1995, these plans have been developed and fully implemented by the Department. The Services have continued to revise career development paths to accommodate early joint assignments; assign greater numbers of former 0-5/0-6 commanders and Senior Service College graduates to joint duty; educate the officer corps on joint education opportunities; and toughen the quality standards for Joint Specialty Officer designation.

The Department has made progress with implementing the results of the Department of Defense Inspector General report of November 1995 and the follow-up General Accounting Office report to Congress of September 19,1997. Highlighting this progress has been the Implementation of the Joint Duty Assignment List Validation Board, which commenced reviewing assignments in joint organizations for compliance with the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986. The board has reviewed approximately 19 percent of all joint positions to date. Additionally, a DoD instruction and directive providing comprehensive policy guidance for joint management have both been signed and fully implemented.

The following brigadier general/rear admiral (lower half) promotion boards were completed during FY 1997 (does not include professionals):

CATEGORY	USA	USAF	USMC	USN

Number of officers selected for O-7	46	44	14	39

Number (percent) of officers joint qualified	28 (60%)	35 (80%)	6 (43%)	24 (62%)

Number of joint equivalency waivers used (percent)	2 (4%)	2 (5%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)

The Department is committed to ensuring the completion of a joint duty assignment remains an essential element of an officer’s ability to perform duties at the general/flag officer level. Attention will continue to be devoted to guarantee long term compliance with the personnel policy objectives of the Goldwater-Nichols DoD Reorganization Act of 1986.

SUMMARY OF JOINT SPECIALTY OFFICER (JSO) AND JOINT SPECIALTY OFFICER NOMINEE DESIGNATIONS FOR FY 1997						Table E-1
CATEGORY	USA	USAF	USMC	USN	TOTAL
Number of officers designated as JSOs	202	211	57	34	504
Number of officers designated as JSO nominees	563	752	56	389	1760
Number of JSO nominees designated under COS provisions	293	394	16	202	905

CRITICAL OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALTIES (COS)				Table E-2
USA	USAF	USMC	USN
Infantry	Pilot	Infantry	Surface
Armor	Navigator	Tanks/AAV	Submariner
Artillery	Command/Control Operations	Artillery	Aviation
Air Defense Artillery	Space/Missile Operations	Air Control/Air Support/Antiair Warfare	SEALS
Aviation		Aviation	Special Operations
Special Operations		Engineers
Combat Engineers

SUMMARY OF OFFICERS ON ACTIVE DUTY WITH A CRITICAL OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALTY (AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 1997)						Table E-3
CATEGORY	USA	USAF	USMC	USN	TOTAL
COS officers who have completed JPME	1582	1977	520	1341	5420
COS officers designated as JSOs	1059	993	413	814	3279
COS officers designated as JSO nominees	2122	2729	484	1840	7175
COS officers designated as JSO nominees who have not completed JPME	1505	1913	308	1383	5109
COS JSO nominees currently serving in a JDA	1061	1198	166	790	3215
COS JSO nominees who completed a JDA and are currently attending JPME	6	0	0	12	18

SUMMARY OF JSOs WITH CRITICAL OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALTIES WHO ARE SERVING OR HAVE SERVED IN A SECOND JOINT ASSIGNMENT (AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 1997)						Table E-4
	USA	USAF	USMC	USN	TOTAL
Field Grade Have served* Are serving*	198 (69) 158 (76)	195 (78) 147 (74)	25 (12) 19 (7)	37 (15) 63 (33)	455 (174) 387 (190)
General/Flag Have served* Are serving*	19 (10) 12 (8)	23 (6) 24 (9)	9 (6) 6 (4)	13 (6) 7 (3)	64 (28) 49 (24)
*Number in parenthesis indicates number of second joint assignments which were to a critical joint position.

ANALYSIS OF THE ASSIGNMENT WHERE OFFICERS WERE REASSIGNED (IN FY 1997) ON THEIR FIRST ASSIGNMENT FOLLOWING DESIGNATION AS A JOINT SPECIALTY OFFICER						Table E-5
ASSIGNMENT CATEGORY	USA	USAF	USMC	USN	TOTAL
Command	82	18	8	6	114
Service HQ	12	5	8	7	32
Joint Staff critical	1	2	0	2	5
Joint Staff other	3	2	0	1	6
Other JDA critical	8	14	2	1	25
Other JDA	29	7	4	6	46
PME	4	17	1	5	27
Other Operations	25	18	4	6	53
Other Staff	28	3	3	12	46
Other Shore	—	—	—	10	10
*For the Marine Corps: Other Operations = Fleet Marine Force; Other Staff = Non-Fleet Marine Corps

AVERAGE LENGTH OF TOURS OF DUTY IN JOINT DUTY ASSIGNMENTS (FY 1997) (IN MONTHS)				Table E-6
GENERAL/FLAG OFFICERS
	JOINT STAFF	OTHER JOINT	JOINT TOTAL
USA	25.5	25.4	25.5
USAF	16.7	25.4	24.5
USMC	25.5	23.1	23.8
USN	21.5	37.7	34.6
DoD	22.5	27.4	26.7
FIELD GRADE OFFICERS
	JOINT STAFF	OTHER JOINT	JOINT TOTAL
USA	33.7	37.4	37.0
USAF	36.3	37.1	37.0
USMC	36.0	39.1	38.8
USN	37.2	38.3	38.2
DoD	35.5	37.5	37.3

SUMMARY OF TOUR LENGTH EXCLUSIONS FOR FY 1997						Table E-7
CATEGORY	USA	USAF	USMC	USN	TOTAL
Retirement	298	290	48	54	690
Separation	0	0	0	28	28
Suspension from duty	26	12	2	4	44
Compassionate/Medical	14	16	0	2	32
Other joint after promotion	36	2	0	0	38
Reorganization	10	0	2	2	14
Joint overseas-short tours	370	240	14	64	688
Joint accumulation	40	6	0	4	50
COS reassignment	210	296	56	254	816
TOTAL	1004	862	122	412	2400

JOINT DUTY POSITION DISTRIBUTION BY SERVICE (AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 1997)						Table E-8
	JOINT STAFF	OTHER JOINT DUTY	TOTAL JOINT DUTY	TOTAL DOD JDAs%	TOTAL DOD OFFICERS %*
USA	274	2967	3241	34.9%	28.7%
USAF	281	3221	3502	37.7%	37.7%
USMC	68	476	544	5.8%	8.7%
USN	212	1791	2003	21.6%	24.9%
DoD	835	8455	9290	100.0%	100.0%

* Total Commissioned Officers: 0-3 through 0-10 less professional categories.

CRITICAL POSITIONS SUMMARY (AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 1997)						Table E-9
CATEGORY	USA	USAF	USMC	USN	TOTAL
Total Critical Positions	363	351	58	187	959
Number of Vacant Positions	62	68	23	39	192
Of Those Filled, Number (and %) Filled by JSOs	261 (87%)	230 (81%)	21 (60%)	105 (71%)	617 (80%)
Number of Critical Positions Filled by Non-JSOs	40	53	15	43	151
Percent of Critical Positions Filled by JSOs or Non-JSOs	83%	81%	60%	79%	80%

Reasons for filling critical positions with officers who are not JSOs are listed below:
Position filled by non-JSO incumbent prior to being a joint position	0
Position being converted to a noncritical position or being deleted	5
Joint specialist officer not yet available	77
Best qualified officer not joint specialist	63
Position filled by non-JSO incumbent prior to being a critical position	2
Other	4
TOTAL	151

;

The following organizations have joint duty critical positions which are filled by officers who do not possess the joint specialty:
Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD)	12
Joint Staff	19
U.S. Atlantic Command (USACOM)	7
U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM	6
U.S. European Command (USEUCOM)	8
U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM)	3
U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM)	4
U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)	5
U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM)	5
U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM)	4
U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)	3
North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)	3
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)	16
Defense Attaches	7
Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)	5
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)	4
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)	3
Joint Warfighting Center	1
National Defense University (NDU)	1
Office of Military Affairs	1
Joint Warfare Analysis Center	3
National Imagery and Mapping Agency	1
Non-Joint Staff (G/FO)	24
TOTAL	151

COMPARISON OF WAIVER USAGE (FY 1997)						Table E-10
CATEGORY	USA	USAF	USMC	USN	TOTAL
Field Grade Section
JSO Designations	202	211	57	34	504
JSO Sequence Waivers	5	4	1	1	11
JSO Two-tour Waivers	8	2	0	0	10
JSOs Graduating from JPME	3	11	1	7	22
JDA Assignment Waivers Granted	1	1	0	1	3
Field Grade Officers who departed JDAs	1098	1143	163	503	2907
Field Grade JDA tour length waivers	76	100	0	12	188
General/Flag Officer Section
General/Flag Officers who departed JDAs	33	45	8	20	106
Attended CAPSTONE	14	13	3	1	31
General/Flag Officer JDA tour length waivers	48	46	11	29	134
CAPSTONE Waivers	0	1	0	6	7
*Selected for Promotion to 0-7	46	44	14	39	143
Good of the Service Waivers	9	0	5	5	19
Other Waivers	19	14	5	24	62

*Does not include professional categories.

JOINT PROFESSIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION (PME) PHASE II SUMMARY (FY 1997)						Table E-11
	USA	USAF	USMC	USN	TOTAL
Students graduating from Armed Forces Staff College in FY 1997	270	329	48	197	844
Students who had not completed resident PME (percent of total)	54(20%)	83(25%)	0(0%)	14(7%)	151(18%)
Students who had completed nonresident PME (percent of total)	54(20%)	83(25%)	0(0%)	11(6%)	148(18%)
Students who had not completed resident or nonresident PME (percent of total)	0(0%)	0(0%)	0(0%)	3(2%)	3(0%)

Reasons for students not completing resident Professional Military Education (PME) prior to attending Phase II
Officer completed Phase I by correspondence/seminar	144
Officer completed Phase I equivalent program	4
Officer scheduled to attend a resident PME immediately following Phase II	0
Officer career path did not allow attendance at a resident PME program	3
Other	0

FY 1997 JOINT OFFICER PROMOTION RATES												Table E-12
GRADE	CATEGORY	ARE SERVING IN			HAVE SERVED IN			TOTAL IN ZONE			REMARKS
		IN ZONE %	BELOW ZONE %	ABOVE ZONE %	IN ZONE %	BELOW ZONE %	ABOVE ZONE %	CON	SEL	%
AIR FORCE PROMOTION RATES (LINE)
0-8	Joint Staff	50	N/A	N/A	0	N/A	N/A	7	2	29
	JSO	-	N/A	N/A	-	N/A	N/A	62	16	26
	Service Hqs	15	N/A	N/A	25	N/A	N/A	24	5	20
	Other Joint	50	N/A	N/A	25	N/A	N/A	10	4	40
	Board Avg	-	N/A	N/A	-	N/A	N/A	86	22	26
0-7	Joint Staff	5	N/A	N/A	4	N/A	N/A	46	2	4
	JSO	-	N/A	N/A	-	N/A	N/A	594	27	5
	Service Hqs	5	N/A	N/A	3	N/A	N/A	145	6	4
	Other Joint	2	N/A	N/A	1	N/A	N/A	267	5	2
	Board Avg	-	N/A	N/A	-	N/A	N/A	1813	43	2
0-6	Joint Staff	96	16	0	58	7	0	45	34	76
	JSO	0	0	0	0	0	0	112	68	61
	Service Hqs	58	5	0	55	7	2	140	78	56
	Other Joint	60	3	4	37	1	0	198	91	46
	Board Avg	-	-	-	-	-	-	834	349	42
0-5	Joint Staff	95	19	0	86	0	0	26	24	92
	JSO	0	0	0	100	0	0	1	1	100
	Service Hqs	80	7	14	89	9	100	202	168	83
	Other Joint	74	3	4	59	1	4	413	286	69
	Board Avg	-	-	-	-	-	-	1845	1163	63
0-4	Joint Staff	0	100	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	JSO	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Service Hqs	93	10	33	92	10	0	53	49	93	Note 1
	Other Joint	98	9	0	82	13	0	49	46	94
	Board Avg	-	-	-	-	-	-	2862	2323	81
ARMY PROMOTION RATES (COMPETITIVE CATEGORY)
0-8	Joint Staff	100	N/A	N/A	75	N/A	N/A	5	4	80
	JSO	-	N/A	N/A	-	N/A	N/A	42	21	50
	Service Hqs	71	N/A	N/A	-	N/A	N/A	8	6	75
	Other Joint	100	N/A	N/A	0	N/A	N/A	3	2	67
	Board Avg	49	N/A	N/A	49	N/A	N/A	65	32	49
0-7	Joint Staff	12	N/A	N/A	8	N/A	N/A	58	6	10
	JSO	1	N/A	N/A	2	N/A	N/A	830	14	2
	Service Hqs	2	N/A	N/A	0	N/A	N/A	176	4	2
	Other Joint	4	N/A	N/A	1	N/A	N/A	266	8	3
	Board Avg	3	N/A	N/A	3	N/A	N/A	1815	46	3
FY 1997 JOINT OFFICER PROMOTION RATES												Table E-12
GRADE	CATEGORY	ARE SERVING IN			HAVE SERVED IN			TOTAL IN ZONE			REMARKS
		IN ZONE %	BELOW ZONE %	ABOVE ZONE %	IN ZONE %	BELOW ZONE %	ABOVE ZONE %	CON	SEL	%
ARMY PROMOTION RATES (Continued)
0-6	Joint Staff	38	0	1	51	2	0	191	102	53
	JSO	68	0	11	52	5	0	56	33	59
	Service Hqs	40	0	8	45	2	0	188	85	45
	Other Joint	50	0	5	15	0	7	234	77	33
	Board Avg	39	1	5	39	1	5	882	344	39
0-5	Joint Staff	87	33	0	100	0	0	17	15	88
	JSO	100	-	-	100	-	-	12	12	100
	Service Hqs	76	17	0	73	2	0	138	103	75
	Other Joint	66	8	4	61	1	20	354	227	64
	Board Avg	60	6	2	60	6	2	1714	1027	60
0-4	Joint Staff	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	JSO	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0
	Service Hqs	91	25		100	0		13	12	92	Note 1
	Other Joint	80	0	0	100	0	-	7	6	86
	Board Avg	74	6	0	74	6	-	2222	1650	74
MARINE CORPS PROMOTION RATES (UNRESTRICTED)
0-8	Joint Staff	100	N/A	N/A	100	N/A	N/A	3	3	100
	JSO	0	N/A	N/A	0	N/A	N/A	15	8	53
	Service Hqs	33	N/A	N/A	100	N/A	N/A	12	6	50
	Other Joint	0	N/A	N/A	0	N/A	N/A	3	0	0
	Board Avg	0	N/A	N/A	0	N/A	N/A	22	11	50
0-7	Joint Staff	25	N/A	N/A	9	N/A	N/A	15	2	13
	JSO	0	N/A	N/A	0	N/A	N/A	161	6	4
	Service Hqs	11	N/A	N/A	7	N/A	N/A	93	8	9
	Other Joint	11	N/A	N/A	4	N/A	N/A	43	3	7
	Board Avg	0	N/A	N/A	0	N/A	N/A	325	14	4
0-6	Joint Staff	91	0	33	40	0	0	16	12	75
	JSO	0	0	0	0	0	0	56	24	43
	Service Hqs	37	0	17	54	0	0	43	20	47
	Other Joint	50	0	1	44	0	0	55	26	47
	Board Avg	0	0	0	0	0	0	217	92	42
0-5	Joint Staff	100	0	0	100	0	0	4	4	100
	JSO	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Service Hqs	83	0	0	63	0	3	83	59	71
	Other Joint	78	0	0	65	0	10	74	55	74
	Board Avg	0	0	0	0	0	0	474	323	68
FY 1997 JOINT OFFICER PROMOTION RATES												Table E-12
GRADE	CATEGORY	ARE SERVING IN			HAVE SERVED IN			TOTAL IN ZONE			REMARKS
		IN ZONE %	BELOW ZONE %	ABOVE ZONE %	IN ZONE %	BELOW ZONE %	ABOVE ZONE %	CON	SEL	%
MARINE CORPS PROMOTION RATES (Continued)
0-4	Joint Staff	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	JSO	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Service Hqs	80	0	0	79	0	0	29	23	79	Note 1
	Other Joint	100	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100
	Board Avg	0	0	0	0	0	0	609	478	79
NAVY PROMOTION RATES (NOTE 2)
0-8	Joint Staff	13	N/A	N/A	13	N/A	N/A	6	3	50
	JSO	0	N/A	N/A	6	N/A	N/A	19	4	21
	Service Hqs	38	N/A	N/A	15	N/A	N/A	14	8	57
	Other Joint	25	N/A	N/A	13	N/A	N/A	8	6	75
	Board Avg	31	N/A	N/A	31	N/A	N/A	62	21	34
O-7	Joint Staff	19	N/A	N/A	12	N/A	N/A	97	66	68
	JSO	12	N/A	N/A	12	N/A	N/A	438	75	17
	Service Hqs	13	N/A	N/A	12	N/A	N/A	436	70	16
	Other Joint	13	N/A	N/A	12	N/A	N/A	179	64	36
	Board Avg	14	N/A	N/A	14	N/A	N/A	1167	91	8
O-6	Joint Staff	16	1	4	14	0	0	38	25	66
	JSO	0	0	0	0	0	0	104	54	52
	Service Hqs	51	3	4	13	1	4	119	70	59
	Other Joint	26	1	1	17	2	0	117	45	38
	Board Avg	41	0	0	41	0	0	736	328	45
O-5	Joint Staff	8	11	0	16	6	0	28	24	86
	JSO	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	16	89
	Service Hqs	45	2	0	21	0	0	97	70	72
	Other Joint	30	1	6	24	1	0	230	159	69
	Board Avg	66	0	0	66	0	0	1441	920	64
0-4	Joint Staff	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	JSO	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Service Hqs	27	1	0	13	0	0	13	10	77	Note 1
	Other Joint	42	0	19	34	2	0	22	16	73
	Board Avg	65	0	0	65	0	0	1957	1255	64

Note 1: No officers met this board who were JSOs or were serving in, or had served, on the Joint Staff.

Note 2: The Navy conducted 39 separate promotion boards in competitive categories this fiscal year. For consistency pruposes, they have been combined into one report.

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