The Strategic issues that come out of the whole box that is the Input & Analysis part of the process become the initiatives for the next step in planning done by a larger and comprehensive aggregation of the stakeholders in the system.  That group crafts the direction and some of the inputs that will be absorbed by the individual units as they conduct their own distinct and separate planning activities.  This assures both a step towards coordinated activity but also the preservation of the distinct character of the parts so that all might adequately balance their historical legacies and their needed and desired future missions

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