HAFMD1-57 governs the Deputy Chief of Staff for Air Force Futures, including organizational relationships, responsibilities, and delegated authority.
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It covers Air Force strategy, future force design, capability development, operational requirements, and coordination with senior leaders, allies, and partners. It requires written re-delegations and keeps delegated authorities subject to specified oversight and control.
The AF/A5/7 reports directly to the CSAF, but provides support to the SecAF, the Under Secretary of the Air Force (USecAF), and other Secretariat offices, and Air Staff offices. (paragraph 2)
The AF/A5/7 leads HAF efforts in the development and integration of Air Force strategy, key operational capability requirements, and future force design. (paragraph 3)
Implements strategies, develops threat-informed warfighting concepts, conducts strategic (net) assessments and comparative analysis, identifies, and prioritizes concept required capabilities, assesses capability gaps, builds, and executes portfolio-focused capability development plans, reviews commercial ecosystems for potential solutions, crafts and validates operational capability requirements, and identifies and champions technologies and opportunities that address those capability needs. (paragraph 3)
The authorities delegated/responsibilities assigned to the AF/A5/7 by this HAFMD may generally be re-delegated to other DAF officials unless re-delegation is expressly prohibited by the attached delegation or superseding law, regulation, or DoD issuance. (paragraph 4)
Any re-delegation of authority/assignment of responsibility made shall not be effective unless it is in writing. (paragraph 4)