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Air Force Building Integrated 10-Year Plan For Fiscal Year 2018

Pat Host

Thursday, February 18th, 2016

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Air Force Building Integrated 10-Year Plan For Fiscal Year 2018

Air Force Gen. James "Mike" Holmes, commander of Air Combat Command. Photo: USAF.

The Air Force will build an integrated 10-year plan when it begins planning for fiscal year 2018, as opposed to previous planning approaches that featured 12 separate “cobbled together” core functions.Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Plans and Requirements Lt. Gen. Mike Holmes said Thursday the 10-year integrated plan will build varied courses of action on how the service might choose to move forward, instead of “salami slicing” across 12 core functions. This new approach, he said, would…

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