Abstract
To enable the transformation of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) military systems acquisition process from a “platform-based” point-of-view to a “capability-based” one, the Joint Chiefs of Staff established the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS). JCIDS prescribes a joint forces approach to identify capability gaps against current force capability needs. JCIDS sets the framework for assessing capability redundancies as well as gaps, whereby requirements officers, acquisition sponsors, program managers and systems engineers evaluate alternate approaches toward achieving resolution of capability shortcomings of the overarching system of systems. JCIDS acknowledges that the acquisition of warfare systems is an evolutionary process of integrating capability improvements over a system life-cycle lasting in some cases, twenty years or more. The Systems Engineering (SE) Method applies to each iteration of the systems life-cycle from capability inception through system retirement. Good systems engineering practice is necessary for successfully implementing JCIDS.
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