BY ORDER OF THE
SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE
AIR FORCE INSTRUCTION 10-401
7 DECEMBER 2006
Incorporating Through Change 4, 9 March 2012
AIR NATIONAL GUARD
Supplement
13 NOVEMBER 2014
Operations
AIR FORCE OPERATIONS PLANNING AND
EXECUTION
COMPLIANCE WITH THIS PUBLICATION IS MANDATORY
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OPR: AF/A5XW
Supersedes: AFI10-401, 25 April 2005
Certified by: AF/A5X
(Brig Gen Gorenc)
Pages: 381
(ANG)
OPR: NGB/A3XW
Certified by: NGB/A3XW
(Mr. Richard A. Jeffries)
Pages:26
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, employment, sustainment, redeployment and reconstitution
of forces. If this publication is in conflict with DOD or Joint guidance, then the joint publication
