Topic 1: Requirements Manager Roles and Responsibilities Learner Outcome: Define the role and typical responsibilities of the Requirements Manager as the link between the JCIDS community, the warfighter, and the acquisition system.
A Requirements Manager is a military manager or DoD civilian charged with assessing, developing, validating, and prioritizing requirements through the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) process, which fulfills the requirements function for Capabilities-Based Planning (CBP).
The Requirements Manager is the link between the warfighter, the JCIDS community, and the acquisition system. Requirements Managers apply knowledge, tools, and skills to support:
Better capabilities
Better procedures
Better management systems
Requirements Managers ensure warfighters’ requirements get through the JCIDS and acquisition systems clearly, so DoD can field effective capabilities in a timely manner at an affordable cost. Specific responsibilities include:
Establish common understanding
Create clear communication
Prepare necessary documentation
To deliver capable, effective, efficient materiel solutions, Requirements Managers must understand “Big A Acquisition”: the combination of the Requirements Process; the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) processes; and the acquisition system.
To do a complete job, the Requirements Manager must:
Protect the information from the warfighters by making sense out of the feedback from the field and then getting that feedback into the Requirements process.
Assess, develop, and prioritize field requirements so the combined Acquisition processes work for the warfighters as DoD provides both non-materiel and material solutions.
Work with field units to be sure solutions will be effective.
Understand the PPBE and acquisition processes because those processes work with the requirements process to deliver effective capabilities.
Topic 2: Statutory and Regulatory Authority Learner Outcome: Recognize the legal authority for the Requirements process and for training Requirements Managers.
Congress established the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) under Title 10 of the United States Code. Congress has also recognized the need for qualified and certified Requirements Managers. As a result, Congress mandated that DoD establish a certification program that provides essential training to Requirements Managers.
Key authorities behind this training include:
The Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC)
The Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) as directed in the CJCSI 3170 series and the JCIDS Manual
The Fiscal Year 2007 National Defense Authorization Act (FY 2007 NDAA)
Topic 3: Key Terms
Learner Outcome: Define several key terms.
Requirement: An established need justifying the timely allocation of resources to achieve a capability to accomplish approved military objectives, missions, or tasks.
Need: A lack of something necessary, a necessity arising from the circumstances of a situation or case, or a condition marked by the lack of something requisite.
A lack of something deemed necessary:
We need the capability to kill the enemy!
Necessity arising from the circumstances of a situation or case: We need to respond rapidly to the changing designs of insurgent IEDs!
A condition marked by the lack of something requisite:
We need capabilities to move supplies around the battlefield!
Requirements Manager: A military manager or DoD civilian manager charged with assessing, developing, validating, and prioritizing requirements and associated requirements products through the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) process.
Warfighter: Those forces engaged in National Security Council (NSC)-directed missions around the world. A warfighter can be in a Combat, Combat Support, or Combat Service Support specialty. The term “warfighter” should be confined to those forces in or assigned to a Combat Zone. The term is intended to be totally neutral in regards to any specific military Service, branch, or agency.
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Capabilities-Based Requirement: A requirement written to specify and to provide a capability
Capabilities-Based Planning: An overarching framework for planning under uncertainty to provide capabilities suitable for a wide range of modern-day challenges and circumstances while working within an economic framework that necessitates choice.
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