Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS)

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• Framing Context
• Enterprise Architecture (EA) ... What is a Capability?
• Evaluation
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  • Main References
    • Main Acquisition References: Website: Defense Acquisition Guidebook (DAG), DOD Directive 7045.14: Program Planning Budget & Execution (PPBE) Process (pdf), and DAU Program Managers Toolkit (pdf) ...
      • DOD Directive 5000.01: The Defense Acquisition System
        • DOD Directive 5000.01: The Defense Acquisition System (pdf)
        • CJCS Instruction 3170.01H Charter of The Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) and Implementation of The Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) (pdf) | Joint Staff ...This instruction establishes the JCIDS as the process used by the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) to fulfill its advisory responsibilities to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in identifying, assessing, validating, and prioritizing joint military capability requirements
          • Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC)
            • CJCSI 3180.01 Joint Requirements Oversight Council (pdf) – 31 Oct 01
        • Website: JCIDS Intellipedia (CAC Required)
      • DOD Instruction 5000.02 - Acquisition Process
        • DOD Instruction 5000.02 Operation of The Adaptive Acquisition Framework January 2020 - reference AAF section below
        • DOD Instruction 5000.02T Operation of the Defense Acquisition System (pdf) – 10 Aug 17 (Change 3)
    • Key Guides and Handbooks: Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule Preparation and User Guide (pdf), DAU Systems Engineering Fundamentals (pdf), Test and Evaluation Management Guide (pdf), GAO Cost Estimating Guide (pdf), Draft Naval Aviation Systems Team Acquisition Logistics Support Plan Guide, and Navy DOD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process Handbook (pdf)
      • JCIDS Process - Capabilities Based Assessment (CBA)
        • Capabilities-Based Assessment (CBA) User’s Guide version 3 (pdf) March 2009
      • Systems Engineering Initial Capabilities Document (ICD)
        • Initial Capabilities Document (ICD) Writers Guide (pdf) August 2009 | TRADOC
      • Program Management - Business Case Analysis (BCA)
        • Performance Based Logistics (PBL) BCA in USD(AT&L) Memorandum, Performance Based Logistics (PBL) Business Case Analysis (BCA), (pdf) 23 January 2004
      • Acquisition Process Materiel Development Decision (MDD) ...where the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) analysis has identified a capability gap/need and a MDD Review has determined a materiel solution is needed. The MDD is the formal point that initiates the ...
        • Materiel Solutions Analysis (MSA) Phase.
        • JCIDS Process - Capability Development Document (CDD)
          • Capability Development Document (CDD) Writer’s Guide (pdf) June 2009 | TRADOC
    • DOD Document Databases: DOD Directives, DoD Instructions, DOD Manuals, Website: ASSIST forDefense Standardization Program (DSP), and EverySpec.com]...Specifications, Standards, Handbooks and Mil-Spec documents
  • DOD Guides and Handbooks
    • DAU – Publications and Catalogs
    • Navy Handbooks, Guides & Reports
  • Milestone Requirements Matrix ..tab ACAT I, ACAT II, and ACAT III & Below
  • Templates ...main templates that are used in defense acquisitions; need to check with requesting organization

Integrated Product Support Implementation Roadmap ...List ... Timeline

Adaptive Acquisition Framework (AAF)

• Acquisition Process - DOD Instruction 5000.02
  • DOD Instruction 5000.02 Operation of The Adaptive Acquisition Framework (pdf) January 2020 | Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment
• Adaptive Acquisition Framework | DAU
• The Adaptive Acquisition Framework - Better, Faster, More Tailored (pdf) .. An interview with Stacy Cummings, Principal Deputy for Acquisition Enablers in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (A&S)
• Overview of the Adaptive Acquisition Framework | Stacy Cummings, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition
• Modernizing DOD Software Production (pdf) | Jeff Boleng, OUSD(A&S), Special Assistant for Software Acquisition
• Milestone Document Identification tool (MDID) ...helps acquisition personnel identify statutory and regulatory program information requirements, as referenced in DODI 5000.85 and DODI 5000.81

The AAF is a major advancement for modern defense acquisition. It is more than a policy update. It is policy re-envisioned and restructured in a framework that encourages critical thinking by program managers in selecting and tailoring the best suited approach or pathway for a particular acquisition. It facilitates more rapid delivery to the point of need. The AAF acquisition pathways provide opportunities for MDAs/DAs and PMs to develop acquisition strategies and employ acquisition processes that match the characteristics of the capability being acquired.

5000.02 Hybrid Program Model A (Hardware Dominant) ...

• Interactive Adaptive Acquisition Framework Tool (ppt)
• Interactive Defense Acquisition Life Cycle Wall Chart (ppt)
• Defense Acquisition Life Cycle Wall Chart; Compliance Baseline (Pre-Tailoring) (pdf)
• Defense Acquisition Life Cycle Wall Chart; Objectives & Contributions with Tailoring, and Compliance with Tailoring (pdf)

Adaptive Acquisition Framework Methods (Pathways)

Urgent Capability Acquisition (UCA) 5000.81

Need identified by Commanders involved in an ongoing contingency operation or emergent need.

• Fielded less than 2 years
• There are three (3) types of of Urgent Needs: 1. Joint Urgent Operational Needs (JUON), 2. Joint Emergent Operational Need (JEON), and 3. Urgent Operational Need (UON)
• JCIDS Process - Urgent Capability Acquisition | AcqNotes
  • DODI 5000.81 Urgent Capability Acquisition | Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (A&S)
  • Urgent and Emergent Operational Needs and Their Fulfillment (pdf)

Middle-Tier Acquisition (MTA) 5000.84

Programs that are intended to be completed in a period of 2-5 years via two acquisition pathways.

• Acquisition Process Middle Tier Acquisition (Section 804) | AcqNotes
  • DODI 5000.80 Operation of the Middle Tier of Acquisition (MTA) (pdf) | Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (A&S)
• Section 804 “Middle Tier of acquisition paths to acquire critical national security capabilities”
• Section 806 “Developing, Prototyping, Developing of Weapons System Components or Technology”

Major Capability Acquisition (MCA) 5000.85

Execute to the standard defense acquisition model with modifications.

• Tailorable
• Major Capability Acquisition | DAU
• Acquisition Process DOD Instruction 5000.85 Major Capability Acquisition ...establishes policy and procedures that guide the acquisition of major capability acquisition programs including: Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs); Other programs categorized as Acquisition Category (ACAT); Major systems, usually categorized as ACAT II; Automated information systems (AIS) (not managed by other acquisition pathways); and Other capabilities developed via the major capability acquisition pathway.
  • DOD Instruction 5000.85 Major Capability Acquisition (pdf)

Software Acquisition

To facilitate rapid and iterative delivery of software capability to the user.

• 6 to 12 months; enable continuous integration and delivery
• Software Acquisition Pathway as the preferred path for acquisition and development of software-intensive systems
• Capability Needs Statements
• The Software Acquisition Pathway (pdf) 3 Jan 20 - Interim Policy
• DOD Software Acquisition: Can DOD Build Weapon Systems Software Better and Faster (pdf) 11 Apr 19 | Carmela B. Rice - Defense Acquisition University
• Example: AEGIS Virtual Twin system

Defense Business Systems (DBS) 5000.75

Business systems are information systems that are operated by, for, or on behalf of the DOD.

• Information Technology - Defense Business Systems (DBS) |AcqNotes
  • DOD Instruction 5000.75 Business Systems Requirements and Acquisition (pdf)

Acquisition of Services 5000.74

Acquisition of contracted services from private sector entities by or for the DOD.

• Acquisition Process - Acquisition of Services | AcqNotes
  • DOD Instruction 5000.74 Acquisition of Services (pdf) | Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment
  • DODI 5000.74 Presentation | Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy (pdf)
• DAU's virtual Service Acquisition Mall (SAM) ...create your performance-based service acquisition requirements

Prototyping & Experiments

Early Prototyping 3201.01

Technology or capability that is being matured by the research laboratories.

• DOD Instruction 3201.01 DOD Research and Development (R&D) Laboratories (pdf)

10 USC 2373: Procurement for Experimental Purposes: Rapid acquisition tool for fielding and testing new capabilities

• 10 USC 2373 Procurement for experimental purposes | Legal Information Institute

Overview of the Adaptive Acquisition Framework with Stacy Cummings Feb. 20, 2020, Stacy Cummings, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Enablers, delivers an overview of the DOD's new Adaptive Acquisition Framework as part of the annual Acquisition Update held at the DAU campus in Huntsville, Ala. During the hour-long presentation, Cummings addressed some of the monumental changes that the framework brings to DOD acquisition policy. The session also provided a look at the six new acquisition pathways programs can use to add flexibility and speed to their strategies.

Adaptive Acquisition Framework: Software Pathway In this round table discussion, senior DOD leaders and experts from the field discuss the interim software policy that is part of the new Adaptive Acquisition Framework. Based largely on the SWAP Report Line of Effort A1, released by the Defense Innovation Board, the policy establishes a new acquisition pathway for software that prioritize continuous integration and delivery of working software in a secure manner, with continuous oversight from automated analytics. Moderator: Dr. Jeff Boleng, Special Assistant for Software Acquisition. Panel members: a. Stacy Cummings, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense/ Acquisition Enablers, OUSD A-S b. Carmela Rice, OUSD A-S c. Robert Borka, Director, Navy Acquisition Policy, DASN APB d. Maj Zachary McCarty, Program Manager, F-22 Pipeline Operations.

Thinking Differently: Cybersecurity and the Adaptive Acquisition Framework NavalX

Adaptive Acquisition Framework: Software Authority to Operate Authority to Operate Reciprocity between Programs, Services and Agencies. Moderator: Dr. Jeff Boleng, Senior Advisor for Software Acquisition Roundtable. Panelists: Mr. Leo Garciga, U.S. Army, Director of Information Management, HQDA-DCS-G2 Mr. Chris Cleary, Navy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Director of the DON CIO Cybersecurity Directorate Ms. Lonye Ford, HAF RSRC MGMT.

Overview

Click: JCIDS Process Flow Chart (pdf)

Defense Acquisition University (DAU)

• Media

The Defense Acquisition System in 7 Minutes Provides an overview of the Defense Acquisition System, focusing on phases, milestones, and decision points.

The Acquisition Moment: Defense Acquisition Explained with S'mores Defense acquisition is complex. That doesn't mean it's impossible to understand. Learn how Warfighter needs flow through the acquisition process and its various milestones through the lens of making s'mores.

1 Defense Acquisition System Overview DAU Professor Matt Ambrose provides an overview of the Defense Acquisition System as described in the Department of Defense Instruction 5000.02, Operation of the Defense Acquisition System.

2 Materiel Solution Analysis Phase Overview DAU Professor Matt Ambrose provides an overview of the Materiel Solution Analysis Phase of the Defense Acquisition System as described in the Department of Defense Instruction 5000.02, Operation of the Defense Acquisition System.

3 Technology Maturation & Risk Reduction Phase Overview DAU Professor Matt Ambrose provides an overview of the Technology Maturation & Risk Reduction Phase of the Defense Acquisition System as described in the Department of Defense Instruction 5000.02, Operation of the Defense Acquisition System.

Defense Acquisition Categories Defense Acquisition U professor Matt Ambrose provides a top-level description of Acquisition Categories (ACATs) used in the U.S. Department of Defense and the role such categories play in the management of acquisition programs. Ambrose also discusses the differences between weapon system and automated information system categories and provides an explanation of what makes a system a Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP) or a Major Automated Information System (MAIS). The DODI 5000.02 and Milestone Documentation Identification tool (MDID) are referred to for further exploration of the topic and practical application.

AcqNotes Videos

DOD Acquisition Process AcqNotes The Defense Acquisition Process July 16, 2017

DOD JCIDS Process Overview AcqNotes Nov 4, 2012

PPBE Process Overview AcqNotes This tutorial provides an overview of the Programming, Planning, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) Process. Nov 12, 2012

Acquisition Categories (ACAT) Jan 9, 2013

U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC)

F100 CGSC JCIDS James Kennedy Supplemental instruction video for the JCIDS class within the CGSC F100 How the Army Runs block of instruction.

CGSC F100 Course Review James Kennedy This video provides a review of the F100 course at CGSC explaining the Force Management Module and using a simulated case study to explain all the F100 processes in one presentation.

Resource Management James Kennedy This video supports the CGSC F100 Force Management Core Curriculum block of instruction.

F100 - Fiscal Stewardship James Kennedy This lesson is designed to supplement the CGSC F100 Force Management.

Cybersecurity & Acquisition Lifecycle Integration

• DevSecOps in Government
• Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity - Visualization
• Cybersecurity and Acquisition Lifecycle Integration Tool (CALIT) | DAU
• The Cybersecurity and Acquisition Life-Cycle Integration Tool | Steve Mills and Tim Denman ...(pdf) - AcqNotes

Understanding what these processes are and how they interact will lead to better acquisition outcomes. The Cybersecurity & Acquisition Lifecycle Integration Tool (CALIT) provides the user the insight into these supporting processes and the ability to visualize how these processes work together to promote cyber resilient weapon systems.

DOD Cybersecurity Policy Chart | Cyber Security & Information Systems Information Analysis Center

• DODI 5000.02T - Operation of the Defense Acquisition System, Enclosure 14; Cybersecurity in the Defense Acquisition System
• Information Technology - Cybersecurity | AcqNotes
  • Guidance on Cybersecurity Implementation in Acquisition Programs (pdf)
  • DODI 8510.01 - Risk Management Framework (RMF) for DOD Information Technology (IT) (pdf)
  • PM Guidebook for Integrating Cybersecurity RMF into System Acquisition Lifecycle (pdf) – Sep 2015
• Cybersecurity Test and Evaluation Guidebook (pdf)
• Intelligence & Security - Cybersecurity Strategy ...The strategy is created and maintained by the Program Office and appended to the Program Protection Plan (PPP). It’s required for all ACAT level programs.
  • DoD CIO Cybersecurity Strategy Outline and Guidance (pdf) – 10 Nov 15
• Intelligence & Security - Program Protection Plan (PPP) | AcqNotes
  • Outline (doc)
  • Template (doc)
  • Defense Acquisition Guidebook (DAG) Chapter 9 (pdf) ...provides guidance for the system security engineering (SSE) discipline and Department of Defense (DOD) program protection for defense acquisition programs. The program manager (PM) and the systems engineer (SE) should use DAG
• Intelligence & Security - System Security Engineering (SSE) | AcqNotes ...Systems Security Engineering (SSE) is an element of Systems Engineering (SE) that applies scientific and engineering principles in a standardized, repeatable, and efficient manner to identify security vulnerabilities, requirements, and methods of verifications that minimize risks. SSE delivers systems that satisfy stakeholder security needs for weapon system operation in today’s cyber-contested environments.
  • Program Protection/Systems Security Engineering Guidebook (pdf) 12 Mar 20
  • Integrated Program Protection | Steve Kern and Vincent Lamolinara (pdf)
• Cyber Threat Analysis
  • Intelligence & Security - Validated Online Lifecycle Threat (VOLT) ...The VOLT Reports involve the application of threat modules, and are to be written to articulate the relevance of each module to a specific acquisition program or planned capability. Note: The STAR was replaced by the VOLT
• DODI 5200.39, Critical Program Information (CPI) Identification and Protection Within Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) (pdf)
• DODI 5200.44, Protection of Mission Critical Functions to Achieve Trusted Systems and Networks (TSN) (pdf)

Cybersecurity in the Defense Acquisition System Software Engineering Institute | Carnegie Mellon University Watch Mark Sherman in this SEI Cyber Minute as he discusses "Enclosure 14 and Cybersecurity in the Defense Acquisition System."

Cybersecurity and Acquisition Lifecycle Integration Tool: Preview Defense Acquisition University Cybersecurity affects every aspect of defense acquisition. Learn how to integrate proven practices in cybersecurity into the lifecycle of your acquisition program.

Insights

• 3 Volumes | Advisory Panel on Streamlining and Codifying Acquisition Regulations aka Section 809 Panel

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SERC TALKS: ’Mission Engineering’: Systems of Systems Engineering in Context Today most organizational or societal capabilities rely on a mix of material and non-material ‘systems’ working together to achieve desired outcomes – to achieve their ‘mission’. Organizations typically define mission statements about why they exist – their “reason for being” -- and they use these mission statements as the basis for planning actions and investments. Government or religious organizations often form ‘mission’ teams to achieve a set of goals to share ideas or conduct negotiations. Space and defense organizations commonly refer to planned actions to achieve objectives as their ‘missions’ - e.g. US NASA Apollo mission to the moon. In most cases these include a set of objectives and a plan of actions to achieve these objectives. Recently US Defense has started to apply systems engineering concepts and practices to missions in what is being termed ‘Mission Engineering” - the deliberate planning, analyzing, organizing, and integrating of current and emerging operational and system capabilities to achieve desired mission effects. In this presentation Dr. Dahmann will discuss the motivation for employing systems approaches to mission capabilities as an extension and a broader context for application of systems of systems engineering. BIO: Dr. Judith Dahmann is a Technical Fellow at the MITRE Corporation Center and the capability lead for Systems of Systems (SoS). Dr. Dahmann is the MITRE project leader for SE Technical Support to OUSD R&E supporting mission engineering (ME) activities and the application of digital engineering to ME. She was the technical lead for development of the DOD guide for systems engineering of systems of systems (SoS) and the project lead for ISO 21839, a international standard on ‘SoS Considerations Throughout the System Life Cycle’. Dr. Dahmann is also the task lead for a set of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) SoS programs investigating advanced technology approaches to complex SoS challenges. Dr. Dahmann is an INCOSE Fellow and the co-chair of the INCOSE Systems of Systems Working Group and the co-chair of the NDIA SE Division SoS Committee. She teaches Enterprise SE as an adjunct faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University in the Systems Engineering Program for Engineering Professionals. Presented on August 5, 2020

Graphs in Government: Achieving Total Cost Visibility for the U.S. Army Maximizing cost visibility is a common goal for large organizations, including the United States Department of Defense. The United States Army is required to track operating and support costs for weapon systems including weapons definition, force structure, inventory, requisitions, maintenance, ammunition and more. That equates to a vast amount of data and growing data management complexities. To address these challenges and achieve total cost visibility, the Army adopted the Neo4j graph database to create, manage, and analyze data relationships across the logistics community. In this webinar, Jason Zagalsky, Federal Account Manager at Neo4j, will provide a brief overview of Neo4j and Graphs In Government, followed by Preston Hendrickson, Principal Systems Analyst at CALIBRE Systems, describing how modernizing its cost tracking system gave the Army the cost visibility needed to meet DOD objectives

Resolving America’s Defense Strategy-Resource Mismatch: The Case for Cost-Per-Effect Analysis The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies Read the report here: https://bit.ly/31WPlha Slides from presentation available here: http://bit.ly/31Unb6x To support and see more of this content, like this video and subscribe to the Mitchell Institute’s channel. The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies held a live virtual rollout of its latest report Resolving America’s Defense Strategy-Resource Mismatch: The Case for Cost-Per-Effect Analysis by Lt Gen (Ret) David A. Deptula, Dean of the Mitchell Institute, and Douglas A. Birkey, Executive Director of the Mitchell Institute. The two authors hosted a panel discussion on the need to adopt cost-per-effect assessments across the Department of Defense as the preferred measure of merit in evaluating weapon system choices. They were joined on the panel by Dr. Bill LaPlante, Senior VP and General Manager for MITRE Corporation's National Security Sector, and Brig Gen David Harris, Director of the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability (AFWIC) and Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategy, Integration, and Requirements.

Changing Software Acquisition in DOD - Roundtable with the Defense Innovation Board Defense Acquisition University (Changing DOD's Software Acquisition Strategy, Workforce, Culture, and Metrics- A roundtable discussion with members of the Defense Innovation Board hosted by Dr. Jeff Boleng, Office of the Secretary of Defense.)

Accelerating the Delivery of Weapon and Embedded System Software Defense Acquisition University Dr. Jeff Boleng, Special Advisor for Software Acquisition, to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, held a roundtable with the Defense Innovation Board (DIB) to discuss how DOD can “shift left” and optimize the long tail of weapons software certification (e.g., weapons safety, flight safety, nuclear surety, cyber security, etc.) and testing (e.g., Developmental, Operational, Live Fire). On a modern battlefield and in a future war, DOD may need to change complex software every day as a necessary factor for winning. “Shift left” and adopting private-sector, modern software development practices, will be key to accelerating software-based capabilities to weapon systems and the Warfighter.

Center for Strategic & International Studies

Understanding Acquisition Center for Strategic & International Studies While defense acquisition is notoriously complex, understanding the basic structure of the acquisition process provides insight on the key factors to making defense acquisition successful. This video gives an overview of how the acquisition process works, the volume of people, time, and money that goes into making it function, and how this plays out in both simple purchases and complex weapons programs.

Supporting Global Integration: The Joint Staff Approach to Air and Missile Defense Center for Strategic & International Studies As the United States shifts its focus to the near-peer threat, it must prepare to defend and counter sophisticated air and missile threats. The Joint Staff and the Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization (JIAMDO) works to coordinate these functions. Within the Department of Defense, JIAMDO is chartered to develop and integrate sensors, weapons, command and control systems, and the concepts to employ them in the air and missile defense mission area. It operates in support of both the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Strategic Command. The CSIS Missile Defense Project cordially invites you to two panel discussions featuring current and past JIAMDO leaders, to discuss the organization's history, mission, and future opportunities.