Precision access is the SOF imperative. It’s necessary to create the means to go anywhere—physically or virtually—at any time to take precise, attribution-managed actions that advance U.S. interests and/or degrade adversary capabilities. SOF is required to operate in politically sensitive and denied areas to develop relationships, enhance partner capabilities, prepare the environment, and hold adversary systems and interests at risk. Precision access gives national leaders options to create strategic effects and scale escalation risk. USSOCOM needs to better understand key aspects of precision access by examining the following: In the future, what are SOF's physical and virtual infiltration challengers, opportunities and necessities? How can SOF improve its capability to operate directly and indirectly with allies, partners, proxies and/or surrogates—overtly, clandestinely and/or covertly—in competition, crisis, and conflict? In the physical domains, how can SOF platforms infiltrate and operate in contested or denied spaces? How can SOF operate effectively in arctic waters? What percentage of the SOF force needs to be proficient in special-access skills (e.g., military freefall capability, SCUBA, high-altitude land operations)? What are the optimal types of platforms and capacities for SOF land mobility? How must SOF modernize and integrate cross domain ISR systems to include novel approaches?