JBM-HH Strategic Plan published, outlines 10-year mission roadmap

The blueprint that will take Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall to 2025 and beyond is complete.

The JBM-HH Strategic Plan outlines how the installation will define and meet its mission of delivering installation services in support of Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region/Military District of Washington and to the community it serves, explained Lavonda Lessane of the Plans, Analysis and Integration Office.

"This is how we envision where we are going to go," she said.

The plan's opening memo introduces the 37-page document and noting that it "provides a road map to empower and challenge the workforce to meet and overcome potential constraints [while] defining long-term strategic goals and objectives for carrying out its core mission."

Work on the plan began in 2014, according to Lessane. A series of off-site meetings were held and out of those, three lines of effort or LOE's were developed. The LOE's include the development of a professional management workforce, effective base operations support services and infrastructure sustainment and revitalization.

"All of our directors were engaged in developing the plan and then we had additional personnel to assist also," she said.

JBM-HH's Strategic Plan is based on and aligned with the U.S. Army Installation Management Command's IMCOM 2025 and Beyond, a campaign plan released in November of 2015 that operationalizes the command's vision for the organization. The plan serves as a change management document that applies to all of IMCOM's components, including JBM-HH, and directs base commanders to incorpate the plan's strategic framework into installation plans, said Lessane.

The plan begins in Fiscal Year 2016, with a strategic period of five years, but has a strategy projection as far as 2025, explained Lessane.

"As we adapt to the ever-changing surrounding environment, we are focusing on the mission and increasing our service efficiency to strengthen our position as a responsive, technically innovative organization supporting customer needs and expectations for our current and future missions," the document reads.

While the document acknowledges that the Army faces both an uncertain fiscal environment and multiple potential threats in the global environment, it also reiterates that IMCOM has the ability to adapt to an ever changing landscape.

"It is our ability to identify, manage and mitigate risk that will enable us to successfully support the operating force," states the document.

The plan states that three major challenges facing the joint base in the future are resources, service delivery methods and infrastructure.

Stressing that personnel are the joint base's most precious resource, the plan notes that the installation's workforce is the engine that drives the command to successful mission accomplishment.

"As IMCOM moves forward, it will be important to find people with the right skills, develop our personnel and enable them to execute our mission in the most effective ways possible," the plan states.

Base leaders will also focus renewed attention on the cost of operations, according to the plan.

"As a command we need to capitalize on savings at all levels; enterprise, regional and local … we must use our resources wisely by delivering the right services at the right cost and assessing these services through a cost culture, performance oriented customer feedback lens," the document notes.

According to the plan, base leaders will also focus on preserving the natural resources found on the installation.

"Natural resources have become a national security issue," the plan states. "Our command has a great responsibility when it comes to natural resources as we manage large areas of water, energy and land. It is our inherent duty to manage these resources wisely and find the most effective ways to preserve precious resources for future generations."

The plan also states that Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization Funds must be stretched to capitalize on the most effective architectural engineering concepts in order to revitalize existing facilities and communities.

The plan is available online at https://www.army.mil/article/171747/.