1ST RADIO

BATTALION

MARINE FORCES PACIFIC

STRATEGIC PLAN

COMMANDING OFFICER: COL R. J. INGOLD
REVISED: APRIL, 1996

VISION

BY THE 21ST CENTURY, WE WILL BE THE RECOGNIZED
LEADER IN TACTICALLY-FOCUSED SIGNALS
INTELLIGENCE (SIGINT), ELECTRONIC WARFARE
(EW) AND INFORMATION WARFARE (IW), WITH A
REPUTATION AMONG OUR CUSTOMERS FOR QUALITY
PRODUCTS, COMMITMENT TO OUR MARINES
AND SAILORS AS OUR NUMBER ONE RESOURCE, AND
EFFECTIVE USE OF ALL ASSETS, ACHIEVED THROUGH A
DYNAMIC FORWARD-LOOKING STRATEGY!

GUIDING PRINCIPLES:

We will be prepared to go to war now!
We will exploit technology in order to defeat the enemy.
We will develop the attitude that "It is my job!"
We will ensure that every member of the Command has a clear
understanding of their function and its importance to the
accomplishment of the Battalion's mission.
We will strike a balance among people, procedures, and technology,
recognizing that our greatest resource is the Marine and Sailor.
Our Focus will be on satisfying our customer.
We will emphasize the hallmarks of the Marine Corps Leadership by
encouraging initiative, innovation, and the downward shift of authority.
We will employ innovation, ingenuity, and an ability to anticipate and
adapt to change, across the spectrum of conflict.

GOAL#1

TO PROVIDE COMMARFORPAC AND HIS

MARINE EXPEDITIONARY FORCES A UNIQUE AND

EFFECTIVE SIGINT, EW, AND IW WARFIGHTING

CAPABILITY.

STRATEGIES:
- Increase dialogue with warfighters to understand their requirements
  and priorities, and make them aware of the Battalion's resources and
  constraints.
- Maintain and improve an integrated 1st Radio Battalion as
  COMMARFORPAC's foundation for SIGINT, EW, and IW.
- Enhance 1st Radio Battalion's support to COMMARFORPAC's MEUs
  (SOC) and other Expeditionary Forces engaged across the continuum of
  military operations to include support to Biological and Chemical
  Response Missions.
- Improve GENSER and SCI communications for Marine Component
  Headquarters and JTF Headquarters.
- Develop a rapidly deployable (nucleus) Joint Cryptologic Resource
  Coordination Cell (JCRCC for Marine JTF's).
- Integrate SIGINT, EW, IW throughout the MAGTF.
- Develop an Information Warfare capability, defensive and offensive.
- Integrate the Battalion's C2 capability into the Global Command and
  Control System (GCCS) and appropriate Theater Command and
  Control System (TCCS) architectures in garrison, enroute, and while
  deployed.
- Expand electronic collocation/connectivity capabilities between 1st
  Radio Battalion, its deployed detachments, Marine Expeditionary
  Forces.
- Formalize Company B, 7th Communication Battalion's T/O and T/E
  for complete integration of the Company into the expanding missions
  and capabilities of the Battalion.
- Emphasize warfighter feedback mechanisms.
  
  GOAL #2
  
  TO DEVELOP APPROPRIATE DOCTRINE AND TO
  CONDUCT REALISTIC, DEMANDING AND CONTINUOUS
  TRAINING IN ORDER TO ENSURE THE READINESS OF OUR
  MARINES AND SAILORS.
  
  STRATEGIES:
- Effetivly manage training resources to include improved utilization of the
  1st Radio Battalion TEEP.
- Ensure our Marines and Sailors are prepared mentally and physically for
  the rigors of combat
- Emphasize individual initiative, rapid decision-making, high quality small
  unit leadership, moral courage and strength of character, flexibility in
  staff action and command and control, decentralized execution, and a
  bias for decisive action in all of the training and education we conduct.
- Emphasize mentoring as a critical factor in building a team of military
  leaders and professionals.
- Maximize training investments through train the trainer and feedback
  mechanisms.
- Institute individual and unit training, in order to validate and improve
  specific architectures for SIGINT, EW, and IW with appropriate
  emphasis on combined and joint operations.
- Make our training innovative , challenging, and satisfying.
- Implement training that includes appropriate background reading, tactical
  decision games, exercise, and critiques.
- Refine and extend participation in CAX and WTI to represent established
  doctrine and organization consistent with the type of exercising unit.
- Increase computer based training and education initiatives that improve
  upon our Cryptologic Learning Center (CLC) experience.
  
  GOAL #3
  
  TO EXPLOIT THE LATEST IN EQUIPMENT AND
  TECHNOLOGY RAPIDLY INTEGRATING IT INTO THE
  BATTALION'S WARFIGHTING SYSTEM
  
  STRATEGIES:
- Serve as a warfighting laboratory for SIGINT, EW, and IW systems and
  equipment via COMMARFORPAC for USMC and other Services, CINCs
  NSA, OSO and other sources as appropriate in concert with CMC,
  MCCDC, MARCORSYSCOM, and our warfighting customers.
- Ensure that our unique SIGINT, EW, AND IW requirements for systems and
  equipment are reflected via COMMARFORPAC for USMC and other Services, CINC, Agency
  PPBS related activities to include the enhanced JROC, the Joint warfighting
  capability assessments, and the development of CINC integrated priority
  lists.
- Employ the anticipatory talents and capabilities of our Marines and Sailors
  to produce innovative and ingenious solutions to equipment and systems
  issues.
  
  GOAL #4
  
  TO BE CONTINUOUSLY PREPARED FOR IMMEDIATE
  PHASED DEPLOYMENT OF THE BATTALION.
  
  STRATEGIES:
- Develop and exercise ready deployable modules.
- Continuously apply the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) process to 1st Radio
  Battalion's Field SOP in order to achieve dynamic deployment readiness for applicable plans and orders.
- Fully plan to integrate and employ Reserve Force Personnel into all
  operations, and exercises.
- Fully integrate Marine Support Battalion augmentation in all appropriate
  plans and operations.
  
  GOAL #5
  
  TO OPTIMIZE THE ALLOCATION OF FINITE RESOURCES,
  INCLUDING THE TOTAL FORCE OF MARINES AND
  SAILORS, DOLLARS, SYSTEMS AND FACILITIES.
  
  STRATEGIES:
- Optimize and improve the utilization of Battalion Facilities.
- Identify needs and provide internal fiscal guidance and external fiscal
  fiscal requests in order to properly address and capture present and future
  requirements.
- Identify and correct T/E and T/O shortages and excesses so that they are in
  concert with operational requirements.
  
  Goal #6
  
  TO FULLY UTILIZE THE TALENTS OF OUR MARINES
  AND SAILORS BY INVESTING TIME AND RESOURCES SO
  THAT THEY CAN REALIZE THEIR FULLEST POTENTIAL.
  
  STRATEGIES:
- Promote the shift of authority downward and encourage our Marines
  and Sailors to make decisions and accept responsibility.
- Delegate responsibility with commensurate accountability to the
  lowest appropriate level.
- Minimize layered bureaucracy.
- Institutionalize a continuous improvement process.
- Implement programs to recognize individual and team achievements.
- Institutionalize universal TQL training within the Battalion.
  
  GOAL #7
  
  TO CREATE A QUALITY ENVIRONMENT FOR OUR
  MARINES AND SAILORS AND THEIR FAMILIES WHILE
  ENSURING ALL ARE PREPARED FOR THE DEMANDS
  PLACED ON A FORCE IN READINESS.
  
  STRATEGIES:
- Foster an atmosphere of mutual respect and support.
- Provide a quality environment for our Marines, Sailors, and their
  families by ensuring individual and family readiness. >Develop innovative and participatory utilization of Battalion facilities to
  enhance the quality of life of our Marines and Sailors.
- Assist our Family members through an active efficient Key Volunteer
  System.
- Effectively utilize our available agencies to ensure the maximum
  support to our Marines, Sailors, and their families.
  Published July, 1996
  Battalion Total Quality Coordinator:
  Captain John A. Polanco

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GOAL #2