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Testing in a Joint Environment Roadmap
environment; determine if thresholds in the approved CPD and critical operational issues have
been satisfied; and assess impacts to combat operations.
DoD Interim Acquisition Guidebook. Recommend that the acquisition guidebook be
changed to provide that joint mission T&E requirements be identified in Test and Evaluation
Master Plans (TEMPs) and that, in situations involving multi-Service participation, all applicable
Service OTA commanders are expected to coordinate during review and approval of the TEMP.
TENA Implementation Directive. A draft DoD TENA Directive is being prepared under
the auspices of the Business Initiative Council to make TENA the standard architecture for test
and training range systems interoperability. Recommend this directive be completed and issued
by FY2005.
JDEP Utilization, Management and Operation Directive. A JDEP Utilization,
Management and Operation Directive may be appropriate to govern JDEP compliance and its
management and operations as a central Department-wide systems engineering and testing
capability. Recommend the need for such a directive be reviewed during implementation
planning, and if needed, prepared and issued by FY2006.
C.3.2 Requirements/Capabilities Generation
Changes to the CJCS 3170 series for the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development
System (JCIDS) are essential to ensure the CDD and CPD documents contain, or reference the
source for, the explicit mission capability needed, including the joint mission requirement.
CJCSI 3170.01D. The following suggested changes are provided as examples:
Paragraph. 4. Policy, Subparagraph 4.c., Recommend the following additions to the first two
sentences: New solution sets must be crafted to deliver technologically sound, testable,
sustainable, and affordable increments of militarily useful capability. All capabilities shall be
developed, tested, and procured to leverage the unique attributes of other DoD Components,
international systems from allies and cooperative opportunities.
Enclosure A - Joint Capabilities Integration And Development System (JCIDS) Process,
Subparagraph 2e. Defining Capabilities., Suggest adding the following wording to subparagraph
2.e.(2): (2) Capability definitions should be general enough so as not to prejudice decisions in
favor of a particular means of implementation, but specific enough to evaluate alternative
approaches to implement the capability and provide for measurement of system performance
through the T&E process for the lifecycle of the system.
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