COMDTINST 16114.20
enclosure (2) also provides a preliminary listing of Future Force boat type capabilities.
While such a methodology is well suited to established mission areas, it does not provide for
emerging requirements, such as Homeland Security and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Response. This plan is promulgated with a commitment to two important provisions for its
execution:
(1) This plan will remain a "living" document that will serve as a baseline and an
"intellectual table around which boat force leaders and customers can gather" to discuss
and implement changes both large and small. As the needs of individual Coast Guard
units and the Service as a whole change (new requirements are articulated and
approved), so will the force lay down of boats. To facilitate discussion and information
sharing, the Shore-Based Response Boat Siting Plan (the current and projected unit
boat allowances by district and unit) will be maintained on the Commandant (G-OCS)
intranet web site available at http://cgweb.comdt.uscg.mil/G-OCS/BoatBranch.htm.
Significant changes will not be made to this document without the participation and
concurrence of all involved parties.
(2) Operational requirements for acquisition of new boat fleets will be established with the
full involvement of all program offices. These requirements will, to the maximum
extent possible, incorporate the needs of emerging mission areas. However, the degree
to which requirements unique to an emerging mission can be incorporated into a fleet
purchase will depend upon the degree to which the requirements for that emerging
mission area have been articulated and approved.
8. POLLUTION PREVENTION (P2) CONSIDERATIONS. Pollution Prevention considerations
were examined in the development of the directive and have been determined to be not
applicable.
TERRY M. CROSS /s/
Assistant Commandant for Operations
Encl: (1) Current, Future, Interim Forces, and Transition Plan
(2) Shore-Based Response Boat Capability Chart
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