Business Capability Definitions
Name Description
Operational Activities
Collect and Disburse The ability to collect funds; issue and track disbursements; and monitor cash position.
Manage Collections
Manage Disbursements
Conduct Program Management This capability exercises centralized authority and responsibility for planning, organizing, staffing, controlling and leading the combined efforts of participating/assigned civilian and military personnel organizations for the management of specific defense acquisition or programs throughout the system life cycle.
Conduct Acquisition Resource Analysis
Control Program Execution
Develop Program
Manage Earned Value Management Performance Data
Manage Other Contract Reporting
Manage Oversight Information
Manage and Support Program Retirement and Closeout
Monitor and Support Program Deployment
Deliver Property and Forces Ability to satisfy the needs of internal and external customers, as evidenced by orders (i.e. requisitions, purchase orders or contracts), by issuing or transporting forces, inventory and related materials or capital equipment.
Assemble and Marshal Forces
Conduct Logistics Business Planning
Consolidate Orders into Conveyance-Based Loads
Determine Route and Carriers
Identify and Reserve Supply Chain Resources
Manage Inbound and Outbound Shipments
Transport Materiel and Forces
Develop Personnel This capability includes the ability to train and educate human resources. It includes enhancing a person's personal and professional skills including functions that support: managing careers; competency development; identifying and satisfying training and education requirements; managing quotas, courses and throughput including cataloging and scheduling.
Develop Personnel
Dispose or Return Property and Materiel Ability to send goods and equipment back into the supply chain when they are received in error, in excess of required quantities, or defective, obsolete, damaged, or worn until rendered no longer useful in their current condition. This capability also includes the disposal of real property by demolition or transfer.
Authorize Return or Disposal
Conduct Logistics Business Planning
Dispose Property or Materiel
Identify Property and Materiel for Return or Disposal
Schedule Return or Disposal
Environmental Liabilities Identification and Valuation Directly supporting the DoD Enterprise Priority of Financial Visibility as well as Real Property Accountability, and especially given their significance (estimated at over $64B), DoD requires the ability to prepare auditable and complete environmental liability estimates. This includes data capture; inventory recording, integration with core financial systems and linkage to real property assets where appropriate.
Assess ESOH Risk
Develop ESOH Solution
Develop Environmental Liability Information
Implement ESOH Solution
Perform ESOH Aspect Assessment
Perform ESOH Aspect Identification
Financial Reporting Ability to provide relevant financial visibility and real-time information dashboards for DoD decision-makers and to summarize financial information for the purpose of producing mandatory reports in compliance with regulatory requirements and discretionary reports in support of other requirements.
Manage Financial Reporting Requirement
Forecast, Plan, Program, Budget, and Funds Distribution and Control The ability to develop, review, evaluate, and support financial forecasts, plans, programs and budgets and to integrate them with appropriate performance indicators to achieve effective business operations and program goals. This capability also includes the ability to control and distribute funds based on appropriation and authorization laws.
Allocate Funds
Collect Program and Budget Information
Conduct Budget Review
Develop Budget Guidance
Develop Program Guidance
Develop and Resolve Programmatic Issues
Evaluate Budget Submission
Evaluate Program Information
Evaluate Strategic Goals
Execute Apportionment
Execute Continuing Resolution
Execute Rescission Deferrals and Cancellations
Incorporate Program Decisions
Issue Budget Decision
Issue Fiscal Guidance
Issue Program Decision Memorandum
Manage Baseline for Reprogramming
Negotiate OMB Passback
Perform Executive Level Planning
Perform Reprogramming and Transfers
Prepare DoD Submission for President's Budget
Support Congressional Budget Review
Track Congressional Action
Update FYDP
Hazardous Materials Process Controls and Information Management This capability enables the Department to provide mission-specific controls for warfighter and business operations involving hazardous materials. In addition, the capability enables common product hazard data across the enterprise.
Develop ESOH Control Agreement
Manage Acquisition Oversight Integration This capability manages and integrates acquisition oversight performed by DoD, DoD components and congressional committees of DoD programs to determine current status, ascertain if the requirements are achievable and/or require modification. These activities include capabilities based acquisition, periodic and ad-hoc reporting, and acquisition assessments.
Conduct Acquisition Assessment
Conduct Periodic and Ad-hoc Reporting
Execute Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System
Execute Other Acquisition Statutory Responsibility
Manage Capabilities Based Acquisition
Manage Defense Acquisition System
Manage Assignment and Transfer This capability includes the ability to assign DoD designated personnel to positions (e.g., in-processing selected candidate and processing transfer actions).
Administer Assignment Action
Execute Individual Assignment
Manage Military Personnel Transfer
Manage Benefits This capability includes the ability to conduct and manage specified benefit programs (e.g., Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan, life, long-term care and unemployment insurance programs) for persons within Department of Defense oversight to include eligibility determination, counseling, and enrollment. This includes medical, dental, life and long-term insurance; pension/retirement; flexible spending; disability benefits; human resources entitlements; benefits eligibility, including management of housing and educational benefits, enrollment and termination; savings management (Thrift/Bonds); and benefits reporting.
Manage Foreign Government Support
Manage Other Benefits
Manage Other Federal Government Support
Manage Private Organization Support
Manage Retirement Benefits
Manage State and Local Support
Provide Education Benefits
Support Health Insurance Program
Manage Compensation and Reimbursement This capability includes the ability to authorize pay, determine earnings and deductions, execute payroll, and manage reimbursements. This capability also includes determining the following: pay eligibility, special pay and human resources entitlements, pay adjustments, allotments, bonds, garnishments and offsets, and payroll and tax withholding reporting.
Determine Compensation Eligibility
Determine Deductions
Determine Earnings
Execute Payroll
Manage Reimbursements
Manage Financial Assets and Liabilities Ability to identify, classify, value and manage financial (fiscal) assets to include accounts receivable and liabilities to include accounts payable from acquisition or inception to disposal or liquidation.
Calculate Supply Chain Entitlement
Establish Accounts Receivable
Manage Accounts Receivable Balance
Manage Billing
Manage Delinquent Debt
Manage Execution with Treasury
Manage Investments
Manage Liabilities
Manage Scheduled Payments
Monitor Payment
Prepare Certified Business Partner Payment
Manage General Ledger Ability to record proprietary and budgetary general ledger (GL) transactions in accordance with FASAB standards, GAAP and regulatory requirements; to define the use of, and rules to, control GL accounts; and to conduct GL analyses and reconciliations.
Issue Policy and Guidance
Manage Execution Fund Account
Manage General Ledger Structure
Manage Standard Financial Information Structure
Post to General Ledger
Record Loans and Grants
Manage Human Resource Information This capability includes the ability to create, maintain, use, and execute disposition of temporary and permanent Human Resource Information. Required privacy information assurance actions must be addressed.
Administer Correction of Military Human Resource Record
Consolidate Human Resource Profiles
Create Human Resource Profiles
Create Human Resource Record
Execute Disposition of Human Resource Information
Maintain Human Resource Record
Provide Human Resource Information
Update Human Resource Profiles
Manage Human Resources Information Security This capability includes the ability to ensure employees, contractors, and other designated persons are eligible for and issued badges to enter federal buildings, utilize federal services, and serve in positions requiring certification of personal reliability. This capability also includes determining and tracking individual personnel security clearances as well as supporting the National Industrial Security Program.
Manage Human Resources Information Security
Manage Military Health Services This capability includes the ability to provide direction, resources, health care, eligibility, enrollment, and other means necessary to promote the health of the Department of Defense (DoD) TRICARE beneficiary population. This activity also includes developing and promoting health awareness issues to educate customers, discovering and resolving environmentally based health threats, providing health services, providing preventive care and problem intervention, and improving the means and methods for maintaining the health of the beneficiary population by constantly evaluating the performance of the health care services system.
Manage Military Health Services
Manage Organization This capability includes the ability to manage the human resources infrastructure for DoD organizations. This includes managing the implementation of DoD mission plans by formulating force structure, strength projections, accession targets and distributing peacetime authorizations and wartime requirements. It encompasses workforce analysis to develop, analyze and implement position and other plans including managing strength levels against those plans. This includes integrating force structure requirements into personnel functions enabling proper utilization of DoD human resources through structuring organizations as well as validating organizations against budgetary constraints, establishing and allocating positions, and managing human resources programs required to support strategic goals.
Account for Workforce
Administer Position Management
Manage Organizational Structure and Organization Unique Identification
Manage Personnel Distribution
Perform Workforce Analysis
Perform Workforce Budgeting
Perform Workforce Planning and Programming
Manage Payment The ability to calculate entitlement, and disburse funds.
Calculate Supply Chain Entitlement
Manage Disbursements
Manage Scheduled Payments
Monitor Payment
Prepare Certified Business Partner Payment
Manage Personnel Sustainment This capability includes the ability to account for personnel, manage performance/career progression, as well as retention actions such as extensions of enlistment contract and reenlistment. Provisions for exceptional activities involving adverse actions and grievances are also addressed. This also includes oversight of military retirees and inactive reservists.
Administer Legal Personnel Programs
Administer Performance Evaluation
Administer Performance Program
Administer Recognition Program
Administer Reenlistment Process
Manage Enlistment Extension
Manage Human Resources Relations
Manage Law Enforcement
Manage Personnel Demotion
Manage Personnel Promotion
Manage Workforce Occupational Safety Analysis
Manage Quality of Life and Morale, Welfare and Recreation This capability includes the ability to maintain or improve personnel's quality of life. This includes developing policies, future plans, revenue-producing and cost saving initiatives to support Quality of Life programs. Quality of Life programs include support for Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR); family support; casualty assistance and social action programs, providing budget and program related guidance, and providing policy and oversight.
Manage Human Resources Recovery Coordination Program
Manage Quality of Life
Manage Receipt and Acceptance The ability to receive goods and services and accept goods and services. This capability maps to the "Manage Receipt and Acceptance" activity in the BEA.
Manage Receipt and Acceptance
Manage Recruiting and Accessions This capability includes the ability to recruit, identify, evaluate and select a candidate(s) to fill a position or organizational requirement. The scope of this capability ranges from receiving guidance and interpreting recruiting policy, programming resources, planning program execution and conducting recruiting operations (from initial identification and screening of potential prior service and non-prior service enlistees and officer candidates through initial processing at the Military Entrance Processing Stations and subsequent training locations (such as lead-in processing at Officer Candidate Schools, Basic Training, before the formal training begins)). This may consist of the use of incentives, bonuses and scholarships. Civilian recruiting includes the entire scope of recruiting to include accessions.
Manage Candidate Accession
Manage Vacancy Recruiting
Manage Request The ability to process approved requirements, collect and analyze requirements, conduct market research, forecast demand, analyze spend data, develop or refine sourcing plans, and identify agreements. This capability maps to the "Manage Request and Sourcing Strategy" activity in the BEA.
Manage Request and Sourcing Strategy
Manage Retirement and Separation This capability includes the ability to terminate an affiliation with accessed persons (e.g., military, civilian, coalition force members, volunteers, and contract personnel). It includes voluntary separation (e.g., resignations, contract completion), involuntary separation (e.g., adverse actions), civilian retirement, and death. It also includes identifying losses, which are used to identify replacement needs, perform final out-processing functions (e.g., exit interview, travel arrangement), and document the termination of the specific affiliation.
Manage Personnel Separation and Retirement
Manage Sourcing The ability to establish a sourcing vehicle with government sources, conduct a solicitation, establish a sourcing vehicle with commercial sources, execute the contract, administer the contract through closeout, and monitor and improve processes. This capability maps to the "Conduct Solicitation and Source Selection", "Establish Sourcing Vehicle", and "Monitor Sourcing Execution" activities in the BEA.
Conduct Solicitation and Source Selection
Establish Sourcing Vehicle
Monitor Sourcing Execution
Manage Travel This capability includes the ability to provide oversight and management of the Defense Travel Enterprise to include: consolidating and acquiring Commercial Travel Office services; Reengineering and simplifying travel policy; Providing customer support and overseeing training for all travel-related topics; Managing Commercial Travel Programs; Optimizing the technology by developing travel requirements and implementing new functionality; and exploring innovations and leading practices within the travel industry to determine the best strategy and course of action for providing travel services in the future.
Manage Travel Authorization
Manage Travel Resource Scheduling
Manage Travel Voucher
Manage Traveler Visibility
Managerial Accounting Ability to accumulate, classify, measure, analyze, interpret and report cost and other financial information useful to internal and external decision makers reviewing the execution of an organization’s program or project resources to ensure they are effectively being used to meet objectives.
Define Cost Performance Model
Perform Cost Performance Analysis
Populate Cost Performance Model
Monitor Commercial Request for DoD Technology Export This capability provides DoD regulatory review and recommendation for the commercial business request to export DoD technology. This includes munitions and dual use technologies.
Conduct Science and Technology
Monitor Commercial Request for DoD Technology Export
Perform Asset Accountability Ability to record accountability and control for all property throughout its lifecycle, from when the government takes title to or possession of property until when formally relieved of accountability by authorized means. It establishes the responsibility imposed by law, lawful order, or regulation, accepted by the Department for keeping accurate records, to ensure control of property, with or without physical possession.
Conduct Physical Inventory
Initiate Asset Valuation
Maintain Asset Information
Relieve Asset Valuation
Update Asset Valuation
Perform Build and Make and Maintenance and Sustainment Ability to develop; sustain/ maintain; or upgrade property and equipment.
Perform Build and Make and Maintenance and Sustainment
Real Property Acceptance The ability to provide consistent, complete and auditable information (e.g., legal, financial and physical), as generated by DoD construction agents for newly-acquired real property.
Accept Real Property
Manage Receipt and Acceptance
Real Property Inventory Ability to create and maintain real-time, complete, secure, and accurate physical, geospatial, legal, and financial information about the DoD Real Property portfolio in a net-centric environment; includes updating the inventory as part of the business processes for asset acquisition, sustainment, improvement, and disposal.
Conduct Physical Inventory
Dispose Property or Materiel
Perform Build and Make and Maintenance and Sustainment
Relieve Asset Valuation
Update Asset Valuation