Leader: Christopher J. Lamb
The Structure Working Group assesses the importance of
organizational structure for ensuring effective integration of all
elements of national power, primarily through the means of interagency
collaboration. The overarching goal is to identify structural problems
that impede interagency collaboration and best solutions to those
problems.
The Structure Working Group is conducing a thorough review of
literature on national security structure to determine, inter alia, the
current organizational structure of the national security apparatus,
how it has evolved, and the effects of past structural adjustments and
whether they accomplished their purported objectives. The group is also
examining trends in organizational theory and practice to determine the
importance of structure for explaining organizational performance, and
how optimal structure depends on factors such as the organization’s
strategy for producing desired output, the nature of the desired
output, and the operating environment.
In the course of its work, the Structure Working Group has a
number of important objectives. To begin, the working group must
determine the importance of structure as a component part of
organizational design in general and for national security organization
in particular. More specifically, the working group must determine the
extent to which current structure (or its absence) contributes to
departments and agencies failing to cooperate and achieve unity of
effort. Once this is determined, the working group will go on to
identify options that would best solve the core structural problems,
and the extent to which they might solve peripheral ones as well.
Finally, the working group will accomplish these objectives for the
national, regional, and country levels of national security
organization and account for collaboration with allies and U.S. state
and local governments.
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