This document discusses generating sustainable capabilities for security forces. It covers: 1. The components of capability including doctrine, organizational structure, training, materials, automation, personnel, facilities and funding. 2. Growing confident and capable leaders through mentors who regulate information, pressure and incentives to foster incremental growth within a leader's "growth zone". 3. How contractor support in a combat environment provides continuity, needed skill sets like law enforcement training, and "train the trainer" programs. It also discusses risk tolerance and self-sustainment capabilities.

1. DynCorp International
Generating Sustainable Fighting Power
Dick McEvoy
Program Manager
DynLogistics Group
24 June 2014

2. U.S. Army Field Manual 3-0
Mission
Command
Intelligence
Fires
Protection
Movement &
Maneuver
Sustainment
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3. Components of Capability
Endstate
Security forces have
the sustainable
capability,
confidence, and will
to function effectively
as an essential
component of a
democratic society.
Doctrine / Policies / Procedures / Processes
Organizational Structure
Training/Education
Materials
Automation
Personnel
Facilities / Infrastructure
Funding
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Organizational Structure
Training/Education
Materials
Automation
Personnel

4. Growing Confident & Capable Leaders
Growth Zone
Current Capabilities
Opportunities for Growth
Current capabilities
Current repertoire of problem
solving, management,
leadership skills.
Growth zone
Area of problem solving,
management, and leadership
challenges that have the
potential to use for adaptive
learning.
Opportunity for growth
Specific challenges where
Mentors help foster adaptive
learning in the growth zone.
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5. Growing Confident & Capable Leaders
Deliberately regulated information,
pressure, incentives
Mentors must carefully regulate a
balance of information, pressure, and
incentives in order to help instill
knowledge, values, and confidence.
Too little, and the aspiring leaders will
rarely wander out of their current
competence zone (comfort zone). Too
much, and Mentors could overwhelm
the aspiring leaders and cause
paralysis.
Deliberately Regulated Information,
Pressure, IncentivesForensics Leader Training
Current Capabilities
Growth Zone
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6. Growing Confident & Capable Leaders
Incremental growth
Incremental growth generally works
best in fostering adaptive learning,
building confidence, and growing
capability. Enemies of incremental
growth are:
• short rotations
• time
• egotism
Ministry of Interior Mentors
Incremental Capability Growth
Growth Zone
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7. Contractor Support in a Combat Environment
Continuity
Plans, operations, relationships,
history, context (what’s worked,
what hasn’t, and why)
Skill Sets
Augment military with skill sets that
military don’t have / don’t have in
sufficient quantities (e.g. law
enforcement training)
“Train the Trainer”
Combat Medic Course Police Academy Training
SWAT Leader Course
English Language Training
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8. Contractor Support in a Combat Environment
Static / Mobile Security Force
Weapons Removal & Destruction
Police Field Training
Risk Tolerance/Capabilities
Capabilities to deal with risk and
work ‘outside the wire’
Support Systems
Can self-sustain and self-secure
in a hostile environment
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