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| deliberate and accelerated |
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| JCIDS problems with old system |
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| too stovepipe, focused on a single system/ lacked analysis |
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| Process for identifying capabilities required by the warfighter to support the National Defense Strategy, the National Military Strategy, and Homeland Defense. |
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“Deliberate” approach
“Accelerated” approach (Next Week) |
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| Created to support the statutory requirement of the Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff and JROC to validate joint warfighting capabilities for SECDEF. Title 10 |
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| Process for identifying capabilities required by the warfighter to support the National Defense Strategy, the National Military Strategy, and Homeland Defense. |
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| processes form the principal DOD decision support processes for developing capabilities required by the military forces to support the national military strategy and the defense strategy. |
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| JCIDS along with the Defense Acquisition System and the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution |
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| The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction 3170 and Manual for Operations of JCIDS Key Elements |
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| Capabilities-Based Planning (CBP) |
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| Connects capability requirements to priorities, goals, and objectives identified through various strategic guidance documents |
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--- Is a top dwn driven process
Strategic guidance documents
Analytic Agenda
Joint Concepts
Joint Capability Development System (JCIDS)
Defense Acquisition System (DAS)
Planning, Programming, Budget, Execution (PPBE) |
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| NSS (president), NDS (Sec Def), JMS (joint) |
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| Functional Area Analysis (FAA) |
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Identify operational tasks, conditions, and standards needed to accomplish military objectives
Result: List of required capabilities to be accomplished with their associated tasks, conditions, standards |
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| Functional Needs Analysis (FNA) |
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Assess ability of current and programmed capabilities to accomplish the tasks under the required conditions and standards
Result: List of capability gaps or redundancies |
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| Functional Solution Analysis (FSA) |
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Material/nonmaterial
Operationally based assessment of doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership & education, personnel, and facilities (DOTMLPF) approaches to solving or mitigating capability gaps
Result: Potential integrated DOTMLPF or policy approaches to gaps or redundancies. Execute ICDs and/or DCRs/DICRs as directed by ARCIC |
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| CBA focuses on three three things |
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| req capabilities/ gaps / solutions |
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| possible material solution, first ducument |
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Resource Informed
Integration Focused
Outcome Based |
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| Identify service or combatant command gaps and requirements that cannot wait for full deliberate process CBA |
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| Initial Capabilities Document (ICD) |
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Broad
Identifies a capability gap or other deficiency
Describes evaluation of DOTMLPF approaches
Support Materiel Development Decision (MDD), Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), Materiel Solution Analysis (MSA), Technology Development, and Milestone A
Not updated once approved
May lead to several CDDs/CPDs |
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| Capability Development Document (CDD) |
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KSA/KPP
Identifies operational performance attributes of proposed system
System specific, may apply to a single increment, or multiple increments if an evolutionary program
Results from Technology Development and supports Milestone B
Updated or rewritten for subsequent increments |
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| Material Development Decision - every program has to go through an MDD |
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pre systems ACQ - init to MS A - MS B
System ACQ - MS B - MS C - IOC
Susteiment - FOC |
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| DOTMLPF Change Recommendation (DCR [DICR for Army only]) |
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| (*non-materiel/materiel but still a JCIDS document) |
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| Evolutionary (a change to existing) - |
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DoD’s preferred strategy for rapid acquisition of mature technology for the user is evolutionary acquisition:
Delivers capability in increments
Recognizes, up front, the need for future capability improvements
Depends on definition of requirements and maturing of technologies |
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- Desired capability ID’ed
- End-state requirement is known
- Requirement met over time by
development of increments
- Each increment depends on
available mature technology |
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| Focuses on capability/ JCIDS is not System Aqusition |
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| (KM/DS) tool -gateway - siprnet |
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| JCIDS documents are submitted into and staffed through the Joint Staff Knowledge Management/ Decision System |
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| The Deputy Director J8, as the JCIDS “gatekeeper”, |
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Performs initial review of all JCIDS proposals:
Determine the Joint Staffing Designator (JSD)
Designate the lead FCB and supporting FCBs
Maintain a database of capabilities proposals (DOTMLPF) processed through the gatekeeper function |
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| JROC, JCB Interest, Joint Integration, Joint Info, Independent |
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| JROC/ JCB (maybe Joint Integration) |
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| 30% cost growth per unit - requires CONGRESS oversight |
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| – tradoc reg that lay out mission of tradoc in support of big army - TRADOC ensures the coordination and integration of doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, and facilities (DOTMLPF-P) initiatives |
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| – Army Capability Integration Center – ARCIC integrates concepts, requirements & DOTMLPF-P initiatives, Products from Army activities, Unified Land forces warfighting doctrine, all aspects of the force into the joint force, from concept to capability development |
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| – OWNS THE DOTMLPF for the army |
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| – OV, and CV – operational view and concept vie belongs to TRADOC |
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| – training/ implement training program -designs, builds and integrates a versatile mix of capabilities, formations, and equipment (2) primary capability developer for the Army (3) designs, builds and integrates a versatile mix of capabilities, formations, and equipment |
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| - 1. Integration (concepts, requirements, capabilities)/ 2. establish priorities |
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– 3 levels (level 1 concepts development integration - leads to requirements)-scenarios, vignettes
ARCIC Level 2 – done by CoE CDIDs-capa dev integration dir-product=formation based assessment, requirements document, cost benefit analysis
ARCIC Level 3 – integrates all the warfighter functions (WfF)- gaps across the Army is the big product of Lv 3 |
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| ARCIC – incharge of Establishment priorities – |
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| what CoE focuses on what- ARCIC concepts and capabilities guidance (2 year plan) |
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| Fires, Intel, Maneuver, Maneuver Support, Mission Command, Sustainment |
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| – most have battle labs – validate conceps – look at future tech – (benning has a concept dev division, soldier div, mounted requirement division, and six TCM (user reps)) |
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Produce warfighting concepts
Identify current and future operational capabilities
Participate in warfighting assessments and analysis
Lead participation in S&T assessments
Sponsor warfighting experiments
Use experimental insights to determine potential capabilities (non-materiel solutions / materiel prototypes)
Document and defend required capabilities
Lead/participate in ICDT/IPT |
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| capability developers leads team-six standing ICDT teams |
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| integrated product teams from the material developer side of the house (Test IPT, Config Management IPT) |
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(used to be TSMs) – six in Benning -Direct development of capabilities assigned by Commander, TRADOC; intensively manage and integrate all user aspects of those capabilities.
TPO – not chattered TCMs |
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| Who does stubby pencil capability development work for the army? |
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CDID
CDID are located in the CoEs |
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| – Single Gap List maintained at ARCIC (Capabilities Assessment and RAM Division) |
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| Capability Needs Analysis - funding once you get on the capabilities needs analysis - Rack & Stack Requirements. Annual/ complicated process |
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| – enables prioritization for Resourcing solutions rack and stack – line in the sand |
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| Integrated Capabilities development Team (ICDT)n – |
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Functional Concepts
CBAs / FbA / CNAs (other studies and analysis)
Documents (DCR, DICR, ICD, CDD, CPD)
Strategic Frameworks
Operational Architectures |
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| - Aligned along the 6 Warfighting Functions (WfF) & other directed efforts |
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| – database for information |
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| – joint capability area / Common framework / Common Lexicon – How you “Bin” the requirement (broken out into nine capability areas) |
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| There are nine JCA , how many tiers = |
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JCIDS process looks at requirements
Policies – top level 3170
JCIDS manual |
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| – more detail, how to manual |
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| JCIDS two ways of identifying requirements |
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| – future/ deliberate, current/accelerated (near term) |
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| JCIDS deliberate approach starting point – |
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| strategic guidance documents NSS, NDS, NMS, QDR, Homeland Defense HDS |
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| – six army functional concepts |
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| Appendix B of concepts – required capabilities |
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| Analytical piece for deliberate approach |
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| – 1. understand required capability (FAA) , 2. Gaps (FNA), 3. Solutions (FSA) |
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| tasks (starting point for tasks – |
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| AUTL/UJTLS (army universal task lists/ joint universal task lists) , |
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| conditions , and standards |
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| all services have universal tasks lists; very broad and assist in assessing gaps/ shortfalls |
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| – tied to vignettes scenarios |
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| – must come up with criteria/ tables and measures i.e analysis that wed do |
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| – start addressing gaps, Define gaps – it is aided by criteria, prioritize gaps |
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| – two solutions ideas for non material is the first thing that you do or DOTMLPF analysis (should always be our 1st choice – easier/faster/cheaper –training, personnel…) .and |
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| – 1. white board , list of all possible non material solutions, 2. Impact on other DOTMLPF (second and third order effects) |
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| – refereed to as the big M infers a new program of record |
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| – look at what we already have and perhaps change quantity and is already a program of record |
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| document solution – DCR (joint doc) for non material solution (Army uses DICR –dotmil pf integration capability change request) |
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| starts with an ICD (potential material solution) |
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| Material development decision MDD/ where we are going to enter the Acquisition process. |
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| – the capability developer is responsible for doing the AoA (sponsor) – focuses on capability |
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| – material solution analysis – done by the material developer |
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| look at two A’s is it affordable and is it achievable (i.e. TRL) |
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| – init a program of record – funding associated and a program manager (charter) |
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| focused on the development of the capability |
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| production , must have a CPD (more than one CPD is authorized |
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| Increments relation to CPD |
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| gap and required capabilities (addressed in wide operational focus) |
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| required capabilities and gaps – KPP, KSA |
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| gateway enters through knowledge managements decision tool |
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| – functional capability board (FCB)/ joint staffing designator (JSD)-who approves documents |
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| – JROC, JCB (JOINT) ---– joint integration / joint information/ independent (sponsor) |
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| – drives who approves the document |
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| How the document flows from the ground up to KM/DS? |
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CoEs develops JCIDS documents (staff it)
Staff internally and externally to other WfF (30-45 days)
TRADOC/ARCIC (ARCIC gatekeeper)
HQDA G3 (Army gatekeeper)
@HQDA – 1 star review, 3 star review – AROC Review
CSA/VCSA (validates)
---> once is validated, it goes to the gatekeeper, place into KM/DS – assign a staffing designator
FCB
JCB
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administrative
From an Army perspective, AROC approves it, vice CSA, Chief of Staff of the Army (ultimate aproval) |
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| DCR – address what type of solution? – |
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| DCR captures and implement recommendations for a non-material approach |
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| DOTMILPF Change Recommendation -The capability developer |
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| D integrated capability recommendation = army |
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– aprox 30 pages/ 10 sections – 1. purpose = bluf – DOTMILPF domains, conceps,
DCR par 2. – background / set the tone for technologies or procedures that are going to be affected
DCR 5 – meat of the dcr and lay out the rough order magnitude of the precesss |
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DCR par 6, 7 , 8 – road blocks/ speed bumps
DCR par 6 – constraints (i.e funding, manpower, etc)
DCR par 7 – policy roadblocks
DCR par 10 – disposition, who approves the document
Purpose?
Approves it DCR? JROC |
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DICR par 1-4 – identical to DCR
DICR par 5 – different
DICR – is approved by – AROC (different from the DCR on who approves it) |
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ICD – potential birth certificate for a material solution
Purpose of ICD – identify a solution for a potential material approach (Big M)
ICD supports – AoA that lead toward that material solution/ you find required capabilities in broad operational terms/ gaps/ written very operational focus
Why is the ICD broad? – multiple CDDs can be derived from it
ICD should be no more than pages – 10 (most are 10 – 25 pages) |
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ICD – describes the need for a material approach/ broad operational focus
ICD Informs - the Materiel Development Decision, Analysis of Alternatives and Materiel Solution Analysis and Milestone A
ICD writen by? – Capbility developer and Army approved by the CSA (VCSA) |
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CDD – one of the most important ones in terms of a capability document. (done after the AoA and MSA – material sol analysis)
CDD – drives into a specific material solution. Must be put into place prior to MS B |
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| between threshold and objective |
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CDD allows - Sponsor’s primary means of defining authoritative, measurable, testable capabilities for the warfighter.
CDD – contains – KPPs , KSAs, additional attributes - 1. operational relevant, 2. must be achievable a (TRL), 3. measurable
CDD requirements – Treshhold and opbectives |
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CDD par – 16
DCD KPP/KSA – par 6
CDD TRL – par 11
CDD program affordability – life cycle cost |
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CPD – supports a MS C decision – LRIP/FRP
LRIP – prove out your system – quantities for your OT&E
CPD – typicalle doe not have new requirement and is for a single production increment |
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| CDD and CPD must have a cost benefit analysis |
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CDD/ CPD must have a system training plan (STRAP)
CDD/CPD OMS/MP – operational mode summary – mission profile
CDD/CPD system threat assessment Report (STAR) |
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How many mandatory KPPs - 6
Mandatory KPPs = Net-Ready, Force Protection, Survivability (regulatory and/or statutory),
Mandatory KPP - Sustainment (materiel availability = ACAT I systems),
Mandatory (selectively applied) System Training, & Energy Efficiency
Checking “yes” for Weapon System requires:
performance, environment, storage, transport useage KPPs |
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Four inputs for KPPs.
Must identify the threshold.
Must identify the objective.
In the rationale (“narrative”) paragraph state operational
consequences of not meeting the KPP threshold (A MUST).
Tier 1 & 2 JCAs ( must be linked to a JCA tier 1/2) |
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| KPP Change?/ approval for change or relaxation of a requirement - Requires MDA, JROC (AROC), and CSA (VCSA) approval to change.-all must agree- after a risk assement |
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KSA focus on – system attributes/ characteristics
Mandatory KSA – sustainment 1. material reliability, 2. Ownership cost (fuel, mint, specific training) |
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| Additional performance attributes |
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| – do not need to be linked back to a JCA |
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| ALL PA’s must show a linkage to the Joint Operational Concepts. |
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Requirements must be:
Operational (what, not how).
Measurable (testable & verifiable).
Achievable & Affordable (defendable / justified with operational rationale, technology is obtainable, can be resourced |
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