CADWG Team,

For your awareness, I am including the information below from a separate discussion:

 

“As we make final preparations for the CLC, the EUCOM team is working through evolving policy guidance regarding signing CSOPs.  Policy direction, from the EUCOM CPC lead, based upon legal guidance, stipulates that CSOPs, and their  revisions will no longer be signed documents but rather, be addressed/noted in sub-committee minutes.  The sub-committee minutes will continue to be signed.  Again. the CSOPs themselves, will no longer be signed documents by the U.S.

 

“To illustrate, we have the medical sub-committee looking to sign their revised CSOP 4.5 at this CLC.  The CSOP won't be signed however, within the Medical Sub Committee minutes, they will include language that says something like "During CLC 19-1, the Medical Sub-Committee reviewed and made revisions to CSOP 4.5. Key revisions included: x, y, z items. The Medical Sub Committee Co-Chairs and IDF/EUCOM Legal representatives agreed with the revisions."  Those medical sub-committee will capture any/all CSOP revisions.”

 

What does this mean for CADWG?  Not much for the actual work that occurs on the CTSOPs.  However, because legal guidance stipulates that the documents are no longer signed, as we modify CSOPs/CTSOPs in the future their approval will simply be noted in the CADWG notes as having been reviewed and agreed upon by the pertinent committee and legal representatives from both IDF and EUCOM.  This greatly simplifies the process (and eliminates the concern for formal General Officer signing events … and the scheduling challenge that they can be).

 

IAN KEMP, Lt Col, USAF

USAFE-AFAFRICA/A30

Deputy, OT&E Division

Deputy Chief of Staff, JTF-Israel

 

NIPR - ian.kemp@us.af.mil 

Duty cell - (+49) 0174-934-4106

SEAGULL - ian.kemp@us.seagull.cmil.mil 

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