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Strategic Planning & Requirements Definition

MSI has provided planning and analysis support to multiple clients to produce strategic business plans and requirements definition as part of an integrated business process improvement methodology, including:

• Strategic and Operational Plan Development. – MSI has facilitated development of multiple strategic, operational and implementation plans for multiple clients.
• Joint Interagency Task Force West (JIATF West) Strategic Plan. – Facilitated offsite workshops and development of the JIATF West Strategic Plan and specific goals within the plan.  Developed plan to implement initiatives and activities targeted toward producing accomplishments and expected outcomes that shape JIATF West support to U.S. and partner nation law enforcement in Asia and the Pacific.  Customer:  JIATF West
• Coast Guard Maritime Security Strategy. – Provided advice and guidance on Coast Guard policy and concepts for attaining and maintaining security.  Guides the transformation of the Coast Guard to more proactively meet the strategic intent of reducing security risk in the maritime domain.  Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard
• Coast Guard Maritime Homeland Security Strategy Deployment Plan. – Supported development of the Coast Guard’s strategy deployment framework for Maritime Homeland Security (MHLS).  The Strategy includes supporting objectives and performance standards – what is required to be accomplished and to what level – and provides for major initiatives with associated milestones – how the Coast Guard will progress toward the objectives.  Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard
• Commandant’s Strategy for Boat Forces. – Synthesized the results of previous studies into a coherent, executable plan that establishes a comprehensive strategic framework, an implementation sequence for improvements, and a measurement plan to evaluate both force readiness and plan progress.  Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard
• Intelligence Program Implementation and Management Plan. – Supported development of this plan, which included an assessment and feedback of Intelligence Program contributions to operational effectiveness.  The plan informed Coast Guard policymakers of Intelligence Program impact on national security and Coast Guard goals.  Established a framework and comprehensive process to address intelligence requirements and capabilities to support the Coast Guard Intelligence Capstone Document.  Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard
• Coast Guard Maritime Domain Awareness Concept Deployment Plan. – Supported the Coast Guard’s deployment framework for Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA). Plan amplifies the characterization set forth in Maritime Domain Awareness:  Key elements included strategic and supporting objectives and performance standards.  Plan shows what is required to be accomplished and to what level, major initiatives with associated milestones, and how the Coast Guard will progress toward the objectives.  Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard
• Commandant's Strategy for Alien Migration Interdiction Operations (AMIO) – Identified strategic goals, objectives, and organizational foundations of AMIO that formed the basis of a 10-year AMIO Strategic Plan.  Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard
• Aids to Navigation Program Plans. – Developed Program Plans document for the Short Range Aids to Navigation, Radio Aids to Navigation, and Ice Operations Programs in support of the Coast Guard Office to Aids to Navigation.  Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard
• Oil Pollution Research & Technology Plan. – Developed a 15-year outlook and plan to coordinate R&D activities by federal agencies to be submitted to Congress.  Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard/Interagency Coordinating Committee on Oil Pollution Research
• Capability Management (Pub 7-0). – Pub 7-0 serves as an authoritative statement for conducting capability management activities in the U.S. Coast Guard. Organizational-level doctrine in Publication 7-0 provides underlying principles for the development of more specific operational-level doctrine and TTP to manage cutters, boats, aircraft, facilities, C4ISR, personnel and special resources used for mission execution and mission support. This doctrine identifies four disciplines; Requirements and Capability Analysis, Requirements Generation and Management, Capability Sustainment, and Process Management Interfaces.  Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard
• Coast Guard Planning Doctrine (Pub 5-0). – Provides a collection of doctrinal publications to categorize the policy and planning doctrine and support an identified overall doctrine hierarchy for all operations and support within the Coast Guard (later validated by the Riker Doctrine Study Group).  Pub 5-0 includes enduring best practices to provide guidance on mission analysis, performance assessment, and planning within the Coast Guard from Strategic to Operational and Tactical implementation.Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard
• Unified Performance Logic Model (UPLM) Development. – Developed the UPLM for the Office of Planning and Performance (CG-81).  The UPLM is a “cognitive” mapping tool that captures the relationships between implementing capabilities, functional requirements, activities, outputs, and goals/outcomes achieved.  The model clarifies the relationship between operational performance (risk management) and support (readiness management).  UPLM has both descriptive and prescriptive applications to facilitate and support causal analysis and organizational and performance metrics alignment and features a standardized, disciplined planning and management lexicon.  Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard
• Deployable Specialized Forces (DSF) Stem-to-Stern Review. – This review of the effectiveness of DSF and ability to retain proficiency involved hundreds of high-ranking Coast Guard subject matter experts and analyzed all areas, including resources, force management, operations, training, requirements, and organizational structure.  Effort included development of many products in a very short time frame, including resource management documents in support of a full analysis of the effectiveness of over 1,300 DSF personnel in performing their mission and sustaining proficiency.  The analysis resulted in a collection of recommendations to improve the entire DSF program.  Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard
• eCoast Guard Business Plan. – Provides support to develop the Coast Guard’s strategy to deploy, and operate eCoast Guard.  Includes an explanation of the desired “end state” of eCoast Guard; key strategic objectives; supporting objectives and performance measures to determine accomplishments; and strategy elements, major initiatives, and key projects tied to the development of eCoast Guard.  This support includes the planning, preparation, development of materials, workshops and meeting facilitation.  Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard Office of Information and Technology (G-CIT)
• Legacy Asset Sustainment Model (LASM) Enhancement. – The LASM is a spreadsheet model that compares the results of funding a limited number of specific legacy asset sustainment AC&I projects to determine which combinations of projects provide the greatest gains in capability versus cost.  The LASM is the critical analytical component in the Systems’ Directorate’s Integrated Support Strategy Model. The outputs of this model defines the Systems’ input into the budget build process.  This project focused on enhancing the functionality of the LASM tool beyond the current capabilities of the existing tool to support investigation and analysis of the alternative mixes of AC&I and OE funding for all projects (existing and proposed) on the capability of legacy asset platforms at each stage of the budget. Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard
• Model Requirements Study. – Investigation and assessment of modeling methods and requirements to support Coast Guard mission analysis efforts.  Scope of study includes simulation, projection and assessment models along with development and support requirements.Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard
• Coast Guard Modernization. – Provides planning, facilitation, and analytical support for the Coast Guard Modernization, including organizational design, alignment, change management, measurement, and information system management.  Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard
• Coast Guard Management Blueprint (CGMB). – Provides an overall framework for planning and decision-making support that identifies essential initiatives and systems and an implementation plan.  Developed in conjunction with the Coast Guard Office of Performance Management and Decision Support (G-CPD).  The CGMB is a set of management methods and management tools that collectively contribute to minimizing public risk, maximizing readiness, and promote responsible stewardship of resources according to a coherent and authoritative management framework.  Primary designer of the Unified Performance Logic Model (UPLM), which provides a framework for the relationships between resources, Coast Guard activities, and the goals they intend to achieve.  The conceptual model links the strategic goals to support goals by way of capability and readiness measures with the purpose of aligning support activities with operational activities.  The UPLM serves as the central alignment framework for the CGMB.  Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard
• Comprehensive Measurement Policy Manual. – Developed manual that describes the measurement system in the Coast Guard and is designed to be the authoritative source for all Coast Guard measurement policy.  The manual was developed through research of measurement best practices of other federal, state, international, and industry organizations.  The phrase “measurement system” is used to describe the overall management practice of performance measurement in the Coast Guard.  The document prescribes the framework, authoritative tools, and lexicon and established a foundation for performance measurement policy in the Coast Guard.  Customer: U.S. Coast Guard
• Institutional Research (INRE) Support. – Provided support to Guidance Team and Working Group chartered by the Chief of Staff to investigate ongoing Institutional Research (INRE) initiatives within the Coast Guard.  Investigation included making recommendations on multiple INRE initiatives value, contribution, and “implementability.”  The Working Group identified and considered more than 50 candidate initiatives within the Coast Guard.  Developed a “road map” report that clearly identified executable segments, sequencing, and priorities.  Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard
• Coast Guard Coastal Zone Mission Analysis (CZMA) Technical Support. – Provided comprehensive analysis of Coast Guard mission requirements, assessment of statutory mandates, development of Waterways User Profiles, and identification of capability shortfalls  Assessed emerging, developmental, and alternative technologies that may improve Coast Guard mission performance in the Coastal Zone.  Results will be used to identify technology solutions that address potential gaps in the Coast Guard’s ability to perform its Coastal Zone missions.  Customer:  U.S. Coast Guard

Updated January 2016