Executive Summary

The Long-Range Plan Executive Steering Committee of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMAVA) has provided oversight for the development of this Future Reach Plan and the Action Plans.

The Executive Steering Committee is composed of representatives from each of the core components that comprise the Department and formed the committees in each respective area: Army National Guard, Air National Guard, Veterans Affairs, Central Support Services Division and the Division of Homeland Security.

The Future Reach Plan is a broad perspective plan that covers ten years and provides a corporate framework for the Army National Guard, the Air National Guard and Veterans Affairs. The core component committees provided input into each of these areas.

Previous departmental plans utilized the scenario based planning process. The Executive Steering Committee opted to develop and use planning assumptions as the basis for the Future Plan.

Departmental Vision and Mission Statements are highlighted.

Core values are developed and articulated in the Future Reach Plan by the component committees. Each component has established objectives and strategies for each of the core planning areas.

The planning areas are:
- Missions
- Force Structure
- Human Resources
- Training
- Infrastructure

The Army and the Air National Guard both have a significant focus on transformation, modernization of hardware and equipment, strength, readiness, and jointness.

A full-time weapons of mass destruction civil support team (WMD-CST ) is identified as key to responding to the potential future threat.

Veterans Affairs focused on missions that provided expansion in transitional housing for homeless vets, expansion and quality of life issues in the long term care facilities, assuring benefits and opportunities for all vets, and preserving military history and memorials.

Force structure, human resources, training, and infrastructure objectives and strategies were all designed to meet the specific missions identified by component.

Next steps will include the process for developing two-year Action Plans by the core component committees for the Army National Guard, Air National Guard, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security. Central Support will devise an Execution Matrix to support all of the Action Plans.