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The Multinational Planning Augmentation Team (MPAT) Program is a cooperative multinational effort to facilitate the rapid and effective establishment and/or augmentation of a multinational task force headquarters. The MPAT provides responsive coalition/combined expertise in crisis action planning.</td></tr></tbody></table>
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The Concept
- Operational planning augmentation for multinational staff
- Team composition determined by contingency and nations cooperating in a common response
- May include experts in: Ground, Air, Sea, Communications, Intelligence, Legal, Logistics, Medical, Engineering and other areas as required
- Military Operations Other Than War
- Small Scale Contingencies
- A cadre of multinational military planners from nations with interests in the Asia-Pacific region capable of rapidly augmenting a multinational force headquarters established to plan and execute coalition operations in response to small scale contingencies
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- Improve Speed of Multinational Response
- Improve Multinational Force Interoperability
- Increase CTF Mission Effectives
- Unity of Effort
- Strengthen & Practice Common Crisis Action Planning Procedures
- Develop and become familiar with common Standing Operating Procedures (SOP)
Future Events (registration links will be activated when officially approved &/or venues selected; invitations and exact location will be passed separately):
Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii
co-hosted by U.S. Pacific Command and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
MNF SOP Workshop-11, November 2007 / Manila (Tentative)
MPAT TE-14 Staff Planning Workshop, March 2008 / Location: TBA
MNF SOP Workshop-12, June 2008 / India (Tentative)
MPAT TE-15 Staff Planning Workshop, July 2008 / Location: TBA
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