BY ORDER OF THE
SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE
AIR FORCE INSTRUCTION 10-401
7 DECEMBER 2006
Incorporating Change 4, 9 March 2012
AIR COMBAT COMMAND
Supplement
13 FEBRUARY 2012
Certified Current, 7 August 2020
Operations
AIR FORCE OPERATIONS PLANNING
AND EXECUTION
COMPLIANCE WITH THIS PUBLICATION IS MANDATORY
ACCESSIBILITY: Publications and forms are available for downloading or ordering on the
e-Publishing website at www.e-publishing.af.mil/.
RELEASABILITY: There are no releasability restrictions on this publication
OPR: AF/A5XW
Supersedes: AFI10-401, 25 April 2005
Certified by: AF/A5X
(Brig Gen Gorenc)
Pages: 365
(ACC)
OPR: HQ ACC/A3OP
Supersedes: AFI10-401_ACCSUP1,
12 Aug 2009
Certified by: HQ ACC/A3
(Major General Charles W. Lyon)
Pages: 14
This instruction implements Air Force Policy Directive (AFPD) 10-4, Operations Planning: Air
& Space Expeditionary Force Presence Policy (AEFPP). AFI 10-401 prescribes and explains how
the Air Force participates in the Joint Planning and Execution Community (JPEC), including force
presentation and Deliberate and Crisis Action Planning and Execution Segment (DCAPES), for
the planning, deployment, employment, sustainment, redeployment and reconstitution of forces. It
covers the procedures and standards that govern operations planning and execution throughout the
Air Force. It also carries out the tenets of Executive Order (E.O.) 12861, Elimination of One-Half
of Executive Branch Internal Regulations, September 11, 1993; and E.O. 12866, Regulatory
Planning and Review, September 30, 1993. It applies to all Air Force, including Air Reserve
Component (ARC) personnel, who participate in the JPEC, including the planning, deployment,
