Joint Capability Area

JCA Number	JCA	Description
1	Force Support	The ability to establish, develop, maintain and manage a mission ready Total Force.
1.1	Force Management	The ability to integrate new and existing human and technical assets from across the Joint Force and its mission partners to make the right capabilities available at the right time and place to support National security.
1.1.1	Global Force Management	The ability to align force apportionment, assignment, and allocation methodologies in support of the National Defense Strategy and joint force availability requirements; present comprehensive insights into the global availability and operational readiness of U.S. military forces; globally source joint force requirements; and provide senior decision makers a vehicle to quickly and accurately assess the impact and risk of proposed allocation, assignment and apportionment changes. (From Annex A (Glossary) "Global Force Management Guidance FY 2005")
1.1.1.1	Apportionment	The ability to designate forces and resources to a combatant commander for contingency planning.
1.1.1.2	Assignment	The ability to place forces and resources under the combatant command authority of a combatant commander IAW Title 10 USC Section 162.
1.1.1.3	Allocation	The ability to provide forces and resources, without transferring combatant command authority, to another combatant commander for execution planning or actual execution.
1.1.1.4	Readiness Reporting	The ability to evaluate, appraise, and characterize the status of military forces and the supporting infrastructure to perform assigned missions.
1.1.2	Force Configuration	The ability to take DOTMLPF requirements and translate them into programs and structure to accomplish the missions and functions required by the Secretary of Defense.
1.1.3	Global Posture Execution	The ability to develop a global network of host-nation relationships, activities, and footprint of facilities and forces by refining operational requirements for, implementing, and sustaining posture changes.
1.2	Force Preparation	The ability to develop, enhance, adapt and sustain the total force to effectively support National security.
1.2.1	Training	The ability to enhance the capacity to perform specific functions and tasks using institutional, operational, or self-development (to include distance learning) domains in order to improve the individual or collective performance of personnel, units, forces, and staffs. (Derived from CJCSM 3500.03B)
1.2.2	Exercising	The ability to plan, prepare, execute and evaluate maneuvers or simulated operations to validate training or conduct mission rehearsal. (Derived form CJCSM 3500-03A)
1.2.3	Educating	The ability to convey general bodies of knowledge and develop habits of mind applicable to a broad spectrum of endeavors to foster breadth of view, diverse perspectives, critical analysis, and abstract reasoning. (Derived from CJCSI 1800.01C)
1.2.3.1	Professional Military Education	The ability to convey (by in-residence or distant learning) the broad body of knowledge that develops the habits of mind essential to increasing proficiency in the art and science of war.
1.2.3.2	Civilian Education	The ability to develop knowledge at the post-secondary academic level to enhance the DoD's mission.
1.2.4	Doctrine	The ability to provide fundamental principles that guide the employment of US military forces in coordinated action toward a common objective and serves to make US policy and strategy effective in the application of US military power. (Developed from CJCSI 3170.01F/CJCSI 5120.02)
1.2.5	Lesson Learned	The ability to obtain results from an evolution or observation of an implemented corrective action that contributed to improved performance or increased capability or from an evaluation or observation of a positive finding that did not necessarily require corrective action other than sustainment. (Derived from CJCSI 3150.25C)
1.2.6	Concepts	The ability to provide a notion or statement of an idea – an expression of how something might be done. (Derived from CJCSI 3010.02B)
1.2.7	Experimentation	The ability to conduct an iterative process for developing and assessing concept-based hypotheses to identify and recommend the best value-added solutions for changes in doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, and facilities and policy required to achieve significant advances in future operational capabilities. (derived from CJCSI 3170.01F)
1.3	Human Capital Management	The ability to ensure, within the life cycle management of total force human resources, the availability of highly motivated personnel equipped with required skill sets and capabilities to achieve mission success.
1.3.1	Personnel and Family Support	The ability to provide essential programs and services that support total force members and their families’ quality of life and development in a transforming and expeditionary environment.
1.3.1.1	Community Support	The ability to sustain a military member and family support platform encompassing tuition assistance, children's education, spouse training and employment, child and youth services, morale welfare and recreation, and other programs that underwrite support to military members and their families.
1.3.1.2	Casualty Assistance	The ability to provide authorized and necessary support services to eligible family members of deceased, Duty Status - Whereabouts Unknown (DUSTWUN), Excused Absence - Whereabouts Unknown (EAWUN), missing, ill, or injured personnel.
1.3.1.3	Mortuary Affairs	The ability to provide for search, recovery, identification, preparation, and disposition of remains of persons for whom the Services are responsible by policy and statute.
1.3.1.4	Wounded, Ill and Injured Support	The ability to provide seamless support (not already covered under Health Readiness) for wounded, ill and injured military members, their families, and caregivers, across the continuum of care including recovery and rehabilitation.
1.3.2	Personnel Management	The ability to provide the oversight and provision of human resource policies and programs that contribute to the retention of total force members fully equipped to execute national strategy.
1.3.2.1	Manning	The ability to recruit, retain, sustain, assign, separate and retire members of the Total Force.
1.3.2.2	Compensation	The ability to develop, implement and oversee policies that maintain fair and competitive pay, and entitlement systems.
1.3.2.3	Disability Evaluation	The ability to provide comprehensive assessment of a Service member's fitness for continued service and recommend a disability disposition or return to duty recommendation.
1.3.2.4	Personnel Accountability	The ability to account for DoD personnel across the spectrum of peace and wartime activities.
1.4	Health Readiness	The ability to enhance DOD and our Nation's security by providing health support for the full range of military operations and sustaining the health of all those entrusted to our care.
1.4.1	Force Health Protection	The ability to sustain and protect the health and effectiveness of the human centerpiece of the American military.
1.4.1.1	Human Performance Enhancement	The ability to restore, sustain, and optimize human capabilities and augment human activities to allow the force to operate at or beyond naturally occurring performance thresholds.
1.4.1.2	Medical Surveillance / Epidemiology	The ability to collect data, perform health risk assessments, develop health risk communication and provide countermeasure options to mitigate risk.
1.4.1.3	Preventive Medicine	The ability to provide interoperable and modular public health capabilities to deliver protective and preventive countermeasures that support a fit and healthy force.
1.4.1.4	In-Transit Care	The ability to provide medical care and stabilization during transport of ill and injured.
1.4.1.4.1	In-Transit Care within a Joint Operational Area Intra-Theater	The ability to provide medical care necessary to stabilize patients to affect the movement to appropriate levels of care, while maintaining full visibility of same.
1.4.1.4.2	In-Transit Care Outside a Joint Operational Area Inter-Theater	The ability to provide medical care necessary to sustain conditions required to allow movement from a JOA to an appropriate definitive care facility (with en route care provided).
1.4.1.5	Casualty Management	The ability to provide incident site first response care, essential care (Forward Resuscitative), and definitive care in JOA and supporting theaters.
1.4.1.5.1	Biomedical Support	The ability to manage blood products, materiel, operations, and maintain all critical or medically-unique apparatus and resources.
1.4.1.5.2	Ocular Health	The ability to improve warfighter's vision through comprehensive care to include optical fabrication.
1.4.2	Health Care Delivery	The ability to build healthy communities by managing and delivering the TRICARE health benefit, utilizing both Military Treatment Facilities and the TRICARE network of healthcare providers.
1.4.2.1	Comprehensive Care Delivery in Military Facilities	The ability to provide or arrange high quality primary through tertiary care utilizing the direct care system of health care facilities.
1.4.2.2	Comprehensive Care Delivery via the Network of Civilian Providers	The ability to provide or arrange high quality primary through tertiary care using the purchased care network, as well as federal partners such as the Veterans Health Administration.
1.4.3	Health Service Support	The ability to sustain and continuously improve military health system mission effectiveness through the focused development of people, technology, infrastructure and joint organizational culture.
2	Battlespace Awareness	The ability to understand dispositions and intentions as well as the characteristics and conditions of the operational environment that bear on national and military decision-making.
2.1	Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance	The ability to conduct activities to meet the intelligence needs of national and military decision-makers.
2.1.1	Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Planning and Direction	The ability to synchronize and integrate the activities of collection, processing, exploitation, analysis and dissemination resources to meet information requirements of national and military decision-makers.
2.1.1.1	Define and Prioritize Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Requirements	The ability to translate national through tactical objectives and needs into specific information and operational requirements for ISR.
2.1.1.2	Develop a Collection Strategy	The ability to determine the best approach for collecting, processing, exploiting, disseminating (PED) and analyzing data and information to address requirements.
2.1.1.3	Task and Monitor Collection, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination Resource	The ability to task ISR resources to achieve requirements and collection strategies, continuously track status, and dynamically adjust, as required.
2.1.1.4	Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Evaluation	The ability to assess the results of ISR operations and intelligence products to ensure that user requirements are being met.
2.1.2	Collection	The ability to obtain required information to satisfy intelligence needs.
2.1.2.1	Signals Collection	The ability to gather information based on the interception of electromagnetic impulses, however transmitted.
2.1.2.1.1	Communications Signals Collection	The ability to intercept and derive information from voice and data communications passed by radio, wire, automated info systems/networks, or other electromagnetic means.
2.1.2.1.2	Electronic Emissions Signals Collection	The ability to intercept and derive information from non-communication emitter transmissions.
2.1.2.1.3	Foreign Instrumentation Signals Collection	The ability to intercept data from foreign equipment and control systems.
2.1.2.2	Computer Network Collection	The ability to use computer network exploitation (CNE) to gather data from target or adversary automated information systems, networks, and data bases.
2.1.2.3	Imagery Collection	The ability to obtain information from the visible and non-visible spectrum based on the likeness or visual presentation of any natural or man-made feature, object, or activity.
2.1.2.3.1	Electro-Optical Imagery Collection	The ability to gather information from a visual presentation derived from the ultraviolet through far infrared electromagnetic spectrum.
2.1.2.3.1.1	Panchromatic Collection	The ability to obtain a visual presentation from the visible spectrum of any natural or man-made feature, object, or activity.
2.1.2.3.1.2	Infrared Collection	The ability to obtain a likeness or visual presentation from the Infrared spectrum of any natural or man-made feature, object, or activity.
2.1.2.3.1.3	Ultraviolet Collection	The ability to obtain a likeness or visual presentation from the ultraviolet spectrum of any natural or man-made feature, object, or activity.
2.1.2.3.1.4	Spectral Collection	The ability to obtain data from reflected or emitted radiation based on the interaction of radiant energy and various materials, using discrete bands across a wide spectral band width.
2.1.2.3.1.5	Light Detection and Ranging Collection	The ability to obtain information from a visual presentation produced from emitted timed pulses of light.
2.1.2.3.2	RADAR Imagery Collection	The ability to derive information from a visual presentation produced by recording radar waves from a given object within the radiofrequency spectrum.
2.1.2.4	Measurements and Signatures Collection	The ability to collect finite metric parameters and distinctive characteristics of phenomena, equipment, or objects.
2.1.2.4.1	Electro-Optical Signatures Collection	The ability to collect information on phenomena that emit, absorb, or reflect electromagnetic energy in the ultraviolet through infrared spectrum.
2.1.2.4.2	Radar Measurements and Signatures Collection	The ability to actively or passively collect energy reflected from an object to derive information on radar cross-sections, spatial measurements, motion and radar reflectance, and absorption characteristics.
2.1.2.4.3	Geophysical Measurements and Signatures Collection	The ability to detect phenomena and gather information transmitted through the earth (ground, water, and atmosphere) and man-made structures including emitted or reflected sounds, pressure waves, vibrations and magnetic field/ionosphere disturbances.
2.1.2.4.4	Radio-Frequency Signatures Collection	The ability to collect information from radiation transmissions and electromagnetic pulses.
2.1.2.4.5	Chemical / Biological Materials Measurements and Signatures Collection	The ability to gather information to aid in the identification and characterization of chemical and biological objects and activities.
2.1.2.4.6	Nuclear Radiation Measurements and Signatures Collection	The ability to obtain information derived from nuclear radiation and other physical phenomena associated with nuclear weapons, reactors, devices, facilities and fissile materials.
2.1.2.5	Human Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Collection	The ability to acquire information from human resources and human reconnaissance assets.
2.1.2.5.1	Interrogation	The ability to procure information by direct or indirect questioning techniques.
2.1.2.5.2	Source Operations	The ability to develop information through the direct or indirect use and elicitation of sources.
2.1.2.5.3	Debriefing	The ability to obtain information through questioning of cooperating human sources.
2.1.2.5.4	Ground Reconnaissance	The ability to use human resources to obtain, by visual observation and other detection methods, information about activities and resources.
2.1.2.5.5	Biometrics Collection	The ability to gather information on an individual based on measurable anatomical, physiological, and behavioral characteristics.
2.1.2.5.6	Media Collection	The ability to obtain information from acquired, seized or open-sourced hardcopy documents and electronic media.
2.1.3	Processing / Exploitation	The ability to transform collected information into forms suitable for further analysis or action.
2.1.3.1	Data Transformation	The ability to select, focus, simplify, tag and transform overtly or covertly collected data into human or machine interpretable form for collaboration across the ISR community for further analysis or other action.
2.1.3.2	Objective / Target Categorization	The ability to identify, classify and verify objectives/targets enabling further analysis or action.
2.1.4	Analysis and Production	The ability to integrate, evaluate, and interpret information from available sources and develop intelligence products that enable situational awareness.
2.1.4.1	Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Analysis Integration	The ability to identify and correlate relevant information from single or multiple sources.
2.1.4.2	Intelligence Evaluation and Interpretation	The ability to provide focused examination of problems, sources, and analytic strategies to derive knowledge and develop new insight on information and postulate its intelligence significance.
2.1.4.3	Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Product Generation	The ability to develop and tailor intelligence content and products per customer requirements.
2.1.5	Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Dissemination	The ability to present information and intelligence products that enable understanding of the operational environment to military and national decision-makers.
2.1.5.1	Real-Time Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Data Transmission	The ability to send collected data directly to ISR processing, exploitation and analysis systems, leveraging both Net-Centric information transport and intelligence-controlled systems.
2.1.5.2	Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Data Access	The ability to provide controlled customer access to ISR data and its products, leveraging both Net-Centric computing infrastructure and intelligence-controlled systems.
2.2	Environment	The ability to characterize and exploit the meteorological, space and oceanographic information from the subbottom of the earth’s oceans up to and including space.
2.2.1	Collect	The ability to sense or acquire meteorological, oceanographic and space environmental data.
2.2.1.1	Collect Land Environmental Measurements	The ability to sense and observe the ground, soil, and/or terrain measurements to develop surface parameters.
2.2.1.2	Collect Ocean Environmental Measurements	The ability to sense and observe the oceanographic measurements to include the physical, chemical and biological aspects of oceanic and coastal processes.
2.2.1.3	Collect Hydrographic Measurements	The ability to sense and observe the maritime characteristics to aid in navigation.
2.2.1.4	Collect Bathymetric Measurements	The ability to sense and observe the precise ocean depths to determine sea floor topography.
2.2.1.5	Collect Astrometry Measurements	The ability to sense and observe the precise location, motion and intensity of celestial objects.
2.2.1.6	Collect Atmospheric Environmental Measurements	The ability to sense and observe the environmental properties of the air.
2.2.1.7	Collect Space Environmental Measurements	The ability to sense and observe space weather characteristics in the region that extends out from the atmosphere of the Earth.
2.2.2	Analyze	The ability to transform meteorological, oceanographic and space environmental data into information.
2.2.2.1	Analyze Land Environment	The ability to interpret, fuse and evaluate environmental data into an integrated depiction of the past and current state of the ground, soil, or terrain.
2.2.2.2	Analyze Ocean Environment	The ability to interpret, fuse and evaluate environmental data into an integrated depiction of the past and current state of the oceanographic measurements to include the physical, geological, chemical and biological aspects of oceanic and coastal processes.
2.2.2.3	Analyze Hydrographic Measurements	The ability to interpret, fuse and evaluate maritime characteristics to aid in navigation.
2.2.2.4	Analyze Bathymetric Measurements	The ability to interpret, fuse and evaluate precise ocean depths and sea floor topography.
2.2.2.5	Analyze Atmospheric Environment	The ability to interpret, fuse and evaluate environmental data into an integrated depiction of the past and current state of the air surrounding the Earth.
2.2.2.6	Analyze Space Environment	The ability to interpret, fuse and evaluate environmental data into an integrated depiction of the past and current state of the region that extends out from the atmosphere of the Earth.
2.2.3	Predict	The ability to describe the anticipated future state of the meteorological, oceanographic and space environment.
2.2.3.1	Predict Land Environment	The ability to describe the future state of the geologic and/or hydrologic conditions of the ground.
2.2.3.2	Predict Ocean Environment	The ability to describe the future state of oceanographic conditions to include the physical, geological, chemical and biological aspects of oceanic and coastal characteristics.
2.2.3.3	Predict Atmospheric Environment	The ability to describe the future state of the air surrounding the Earth.
2.2.3.4	Predict Space Environment	The ability to describe the future state of the region that extends out from the atmosphere of the Earth.
2.2.4	Exploit	The ability to provide relevant meteorological, oceanographic and space environmental information for integration into operational activities.
2.2.4.1	Determine Environmental Impacts	The ability to derive actionable decision parameters from environmental information.
2.2.4.2	Assess Environmental Effects	The ability to couple thresholds with actionable decision parameters to convey operation-impacting environmental knowledge to decision makers.
2.2.4.3	Produce Environmental Decision Aids	The ability to package environmental products that are discoverable and accessible.
3	Force Application	The ability to integrate the use of maneuver and engagement in all environments to create the effects necessary to achieve mission objectives.
3.1	Maneuver	The ability to move to a position of advantage in all environments in order to generate or enable the generation of effects in all domains and the information environment.
3.1.1	Maneuver to Engage (MTE)	The ability to move to a position of advantage in all environments in order to employ force.
3.1.1.1	Air (MTE)	The ability to maneuver to engage in the region beginning at the upper boundary of the land or water and extending upward to the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs).
3.1.1.2	Space (MTE)	The ability to maneuver to engage in the region beginning at the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs) and extending outward. (JP 1-02)
3.1.1.3	Land (MTE)	The ability to maneuver to engage on the surface of the land.
3.1.1.4	Maritime (MTE)	The ability to maneuver to engage on the surface of the sea.
3.1.1.5	Underground (MTE)	The ability to maneuver to engage beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.).
3.1.1.6	Underwater (MTE)	The ability to maneuver to engage below the surface of a body of water.
3.1.1.7	Cyberspace (MTE)	The ability to maneuver to engage within the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures and the data within them.
3.1.2	Maneuver to Insert (MTI)	The ability to place forces at a position of advantage in all environments.
3.1.2.1	Air (MTI)	The ability to maneuver to insert in the region beginning at the upper boundary of the land or water and extending upward to the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs).
3.1.2.2	Space (MTI)	The ability to maneuver to insert in the region beginning at the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs) and extending outward. (JP 1-02)
3.1.2.3	Land (MTI)	The ability to maneuver to insert on the exterior or upper boundary of the land.
3.1.2.4	Maritime (MTI)	The ability to maneuver to insert on the exterior or upper boundary of the sea.
3.1.2.5	Underground (MTI)	The ability to maneuver to insert beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.).
3.1.2.6	Underwater (MTI)	The ability to maneuver to insert below the surface of a body of water.
3.1.2.7	Cyberspace (MTI)	The ability to maneuver to insert within the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures and the data within them.
3.1.3	Maneuver to Influence (MTinfl)	The ability to move to a position of advantage in all environments in order to affect the behavior, capabilities, will, or perceptions of partner, competitor, or adversary leaders, military forces, and relevant populations.
3.1.3.1	Air (MTInfl)	The ability to maneuver to influence in the region beginning at the upper boundary of the land or water and extending upward to the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs).
3.1.3.2	Space (MTInfl)	The ability to maneuver to influence in the region beginning at the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs) and extending outward. (JP 1-02)
3.1.3.3	Land (MTInfl)	The ability to maneuver to influence on the exterior or upper boundary of the land.
3.1.3.4	Maritime (MTInfl)	The ability to maneuver to influence on the exterior or upper boundary of the sea.
3.1.3.5	Underground (MTInfl)	The ability to maneuver to influence beneath the surface of the earth, (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.).
3.1.3.6	Underwater (MTInfl)	The ability to maneuver to influence below the surface of a body of water.
3.1.3.7	Cyberspace (MTInfl)	The ability to maneuver to influence within the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures and the data within them.
3.1.4	Maneuver to Secure (MTS)	The ability to control or deny (destroy, remove, contaminate, or block with obstacles) significant areas, with or without force, in the operational area whose possession or control provides either side an operational advantage.
3.1.4.1	Air (MTS)	The ability to secure the region beginning at the upper boundary of the land or water and extending upward to the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs).
3.1.4.2	Space (MTS)	The ability to secure the region beginning at the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs) and extending outward. (JP 1-02).
3.1.4.3	Land (MTS)	The ability to secure the surface of the land.
3.1.4.3.1	Populations (MTSL)	The ability to provide security to individuals in an area.
3.1.4.3.2	Infrastructure (MTSL)	The ability to provide security for the basic installations and facilities on which a community depends.
3.1.4.3.3	Resources (MTSL)	The ability to provide security for critical assets.
3.1.4.4	Maritime (MTS)	The ability to secure the surface of the sea.
3.1.4.5	Underground (MTS)	The ability to secure areas beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.).
3.1.4.6	Underwater (MTS)	The ability to secure areas below the surface of a body of water.
3.1.4.7	Cyberspace (MTS)	The ability to maneuver to secure within the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures and the data within them.
3.2	Engagement	The ability to use kinetic and non-kinetic means in all environments to generate the desired lethal and/or non-lethal effects from all domains and the information environment.
3.2.1	Kinetic Means	The ability to create effects that rely on explosives or physical momentum (i.e., of, relating to, or produced by motion).
3.2.1.1	Fixed Target (EK)	The ability to kinetically engage a geographic area or object that is unable to move. (Modified from JP 1-02)
3.2.1.1.1	Surface (EKF)	The ability to kinetically engage targets on land or water.
3.2.1.1.1.1	Point (EKFS)	The ability to kinetically engage a target of such small dimension that it requires the accurate placement of ordnance in order to neutralize or destroy it. (FM 101-5-1)
3.2.1.1.1.1.1	Hardened (EKFSP)	The ability to kinetically engage targets reinforced (with armor, concrete, dirt, etc.) to protect against blast, heat, or radiation.
3.2.1.1.1.1.2	Soft (EKFSP)	The ability to kinetically engage targets that are not protected against attack.
3.2.1.1.1.1.3	Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (EKFSP)	The ability to kinetically engage targets which include hazardous materials and capabilities associated with chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons production or storage.
3.2.1.1.1.2	Area (EKFS)	The ability to kinetically engage a target consisting of a region rather than a single point. (JP 1-02) This includes circular, linear, and irregular shaped targets.
3.2.1.1.1.2.1	Hardened (EKFSA)	The ability to kinetically engage targets reinforced (with armor, concrete, dirt, etc.) to protect against blast, heat, or radiation.
3.2.1.1.1.2.2	Soft (EKFSA)	The ability to kinetically engage targets that are not protected against attack.
3.2.1.1.2	Underground (EKF)	The ability to kinetically engage targets beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.).
3.2.1.1.2.1	Hardened (EKFU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets reinforced (with armor, concrete, dirt, etc.) to protect against blast, heat, or radiation.
3.2.1.1.2.2	Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (EKFU)	The ability to kinetically engage underground targets that include hazardous materials and capabilities associated with chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons production or storage.
3.2.1.1.3	Underwater (EKF)	The ability to kinetically engage targets below the surface of a body of water.
3.2.1.1.3.1	Surf Zone (EKFU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at a depth of 0-10 feet.
3.2.1.1.3.2	Very Shallow (EKFU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at a depth of 10-40 feet.
3.2.1.1.3.3	Shallow (EKFU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at a depth of 40-200 feet.
3.2.1.1.3.4	Deep Water (EKFU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at depths greater than 200 feet.
3.2.1.2	Stationary Target (EK)	The ability to kinetically engage an object that could move but is currently not moving. (modified from JP 1-02)
3.2.1.2.1	Surface (EKS)	The ability to kinetically engage targets on land or water.
3.2.1.2.1.1	Point (EKSS)	The ability to kinetically engage a target of such small dimension that it requires the accurate placement of ordnance in order to neutralize or destroy it. (FM 101-5-1)
3.2.1.2.1.1.1	Hardened (EKSSP)	The ability to kinetically engage targets reinforced (with armor, concrete, dirt, etc.) to protect against blast, heat, or radiation.
3.2.1.2.1.1.2	Soft (EKSSP)	The ability to kinetically engage targets that are not protected against attack.
3.2.1.2.1.1.3	Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (EKSSP)	The ability to kinetically engage targets which include hazardous materials and capabilities associated with chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons production or storage.
3.2.1.2.1.2	Area (EKSS)	The ability to kinetically engage a target consisting of a region rather than a single point. (JP 1-02) This includes circular, linear, and irregular shaped targets.
3.2.1.2.1.2.1	Hardened (EKSSA)	The ability to kinetically engage targets reinforced (with armor, concrete, dirt, etc.) to protect against blast, heat, or radiation.
3.2.1.2.1.2.2	Soft (EKSSA)	The ability to kinetically engage targets that are not protected against attack.
3.2.1.2.2	Underground (EKS)	The ability to kinetically engage targets beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.).
3.2.1.2.2.1	Soft (EKSU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets that are not protected against attack.
3.2.1.2.2.2	Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (EKSU)	The ability to kinetically engage underground targets that include hazardous materials and capabilities associated with chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons production or storage.
3.2.1.2.3.1	Surf Zone (EKSU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at a depth of 0-10 feet.
3.2.1.2.3.2	Very Shallow (EKSU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at a depth of 10-40 feet.
3.2.1.2.3.3	Shallow (EKSU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at a depth of 40-200 feet.
3.2.1.2.3.4	Deep Water (EKSU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at depths greater than 200 feet.
3.2.1.3	Moving Targets (EK)	The ability to kinetically engage a system, unit, or person that is in the process of moving from one place to another.
3.2.1.3.1	Air (EKM)	The ability to kinetically engage moving targets in the region beginning at the upper boundary of the land or water and extending upward to the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs).
3.2.1.3.2	Space (EKM)	The ability to kinetically engage moving targets in the region beginning at the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs) and extending outward. (JP 1-02)
3.2.1.3.3	Surface (EKM)	The ability to kinetically engage moving targets on land or water.
3.2.1.3.3	Underwater (EKS)	The ability to kinetically engage targets below the surface of a body of water.
3.2.1.3.3.1	Point (EKMS)	The ability to kinetically engage a moving target of such small dimension that it requires the accurate placement of ordnance in order to neutralize or destroy it. (FM 101-5-1)
3.2.1.3.3.1.1	Hardened (EKMSP)	The ability to kinetically engage moving targets that are reinforced (with armor, concrete, dirt, etc.) to protect against blast, heat, or radiation.
3.2.1.3.3.1.2	Soft (EKMSP)	The ability to kinetically engage moving targets that are not protected against attack.
3.2.1.3.3.1.3	Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (EKMSP)	The ability to kinetically engage targets that are moving at the time of decision to engage and which include hazardous materials and capabilities associated with chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons production or storage.
3.2.1.3.3.2	Area (EKMS)	The ability to kinetically engage a large moving target within a region.
3.2.1.3.3.2.1	Hardened (EKMSA)	The ability to kinetically engage moving targets that are reinforced (with armor, concrete, dirt, etc.) to protect against blast, heat, or radiation.
3.2.1.3.3.2.2	Soft (EKMSA)	The ability to kinetically engage targets that are not protected against attack.
3.2.1.3.4	Underground (EKM)	The ability to kinetically engage moving targets beneath the surface of the earth.
3.2.1.3.4.1	Soft (EKMU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets that are not protected against attack.
3.2.1.3.4.2	Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (EKMU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets that are moving at the time of decision to engage and which include hazardous materials and capabilities associated with chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons production or storage.
3.2.1.3.5	Underwater (EKM)	The ability to kinetically engage moving targets below the surface of a body of water.
3.2.1.3.5.1	Surf Zone (EKMU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at a depth of 0-10 feet.
3.2.1.3.5.2	Very Shallow (EKMU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at a depth of 10-40 feet.
3.2.1.3.5.3	Shallow (EKMU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at a depth of 40-200 feet.
3.2.1.3.5.4	Deep Water (EKMU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at depths greater than 200 feet.
3.2.2	Non-Kinetic Means	The ability to create effects that do not rely on explosives or physical momentum. (e.g., directed energy, computer viruses/hacking, chemical, and biological).
3.2.2.1	Fixed Target (ENK)	The ability to non-kinetically engage a geographic area or object that is unable to move. (modified from JP 1-02)
3.2.2.1.1	Surface (ENKF)	The ability to non-kinetically engage targets on the land or water.
3.2.2.1.1.1	Point (ENKFS)	The ability to non-kinetically engage a target of such small dimension that it requires the accurate placement of ordnance in order to neutralize or destroy it. (FM 101-5-1)
3.2.2.1.1.2	Area (ENKFS)	The ability to non-kinetically engage a target consisting of a region rather than a single point. (JP 1-02) This includes circular, linear, and irregular shaped targets.
3.2.2.1.2	Underground (ENKF)	The ability to non-kinetically engage targets beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.).
3.2.2.1.3	Underwater (ENKF)	The ability to non-kinetically engage targets below the surface of a body of water.
3.2.2.2	Stationary Target (ENK)	The ability to kinetically engage an object that could move but is currently not moving. (modified from JP 1-02)
3.2.2.2.1	Surface (ENKS)	The ability to non-kinetically engage targets on the exterior or upper boundary of the land or water.
3.2.2.2.1.1	Point (ENKSS)	The ability to non-kinetically engage a target of such small dimension that it requires the accurate placement of ordnance in order to neutralize or destroy it. (FM 101-5-1)
3.2.2.2.1.2	Area (ENKSS)	The ability to non-kinetically engage a target consisting of a region rather than a single point. (JP 1-02) This includes circular, linear, and irregular shaped targets.
3.2.2.2.2	Underground (ENKS)	The ability to non-kinetically engage targets beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.).
3.2.2.2.3	Underwater (ENKS)	The ability to non-kinetically engage targets below the surface of a body of water.
3.2.2.3	Moving Targets (ENK)	The ability to non-kinetically engage a system, unit, or person that is in the process of moving.
3.2.2.3.1	Air (ENKM)	The ability to non-kinetically engage moving targets in the region beginning at the upper boundary of the land or water and extending upward to the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs).
3.2.2.3.2	Space (ENKM)	The ability to non-kinetically engage moving targets in the region beginning at the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs) and extending outward. (JP 1-02)
3.2.2.3.3	Surface (ENKM)	The ability to non-kinetically engage moving targets on the exterior or upper boundary of the land or water.
3.2.2.3.3.1	Point (ENKMS)	The ability to non-kinetically engage a moving target of such small dimension that it requires the accurate placement of ordnance in order to neutralize or destroy it. (FM 101-5-1)
3.2.2.3.3.2	Area (ENKMS)	The ability to non-kinetically engage a moving target consisting of a region rather than a single point. (JP 1-02) This includes circular, linear, and irregular shaped targets.
3.2.2.3.4	Underground (ENKM)	The ability to non-kinetically engage moving targets beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.).
3.2.2.3.5	Underwater (ENKM)	The ability to non-kinetically engage moving targets below the surface of a body of water.
3.2.2.4	Cyberspace (ENK)	The ability to conduct non-kinetic engagements to attack and defend the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures and the data within them.
3.2.2.4.1	Computer Network Attack	The ability to disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy information resident in information technology infrastructures, or the information technology infrastructure itself. (derived from CM-0363-08 and JP 1-02)
3.2.2.4.2	Computer Network Defense	The ability to employ operational defensive measures to counter unauthorized activity within the Department of Defense information systems and information technology infrastructure.
3.2.2.5	Electromagnetic Spectrum (ENK)	The ability to conduct non-kinetic engagements against an adversary's use of the range of electromagnetic radiation.
3.2.2.5.1	Position, Navigation and Timing (ENKES)	The ability to disrupt, deny, degrade or destroy an adversary's use of position, navigation and timing sources.
3.2.2.5.2	Radar (ENKES)	The ability to disrupt, deny, degrade or destroy an adversary's use of radio ranging technology.
3.2.2.5.3	Communications (ENKES)	The ability to disrupt, deny, degrade or destroy an adversary's use of signals technology.
3.2.2.5.4	Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ENKES)	The ability to disrupt, deny, degrade or destroy adversarial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.
3.2.2.6	Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (ENK)	The ability to non-kinetically engage targets which include hazardous materials and capabilities associated with chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons production or storage.
4	Logistics	The ability to project and sustain a logistically ready joint force through the deliberate sharing of national and multi-national resources to effectively support operations, extend operational reach and provide the joint force commander the freedom of action necessary to meet mission objectives.
4.1	Deployment and Distribution	The ability to plan, coordinate, synchronize, and execute force movement and sustainment tasks in support of military operations. Deployment and distribution includes the ability to strategically and operationally move forces and sustainment to the point of need and operate the Joint Deployment and Distribution Enterprise. (JL(D) JIC pg 5 and pages 14-21)
4.1.1	Move the Force	The ability to transport units, equipment and initial sustainment from the point of origin to the point of need and provide JDDE resources to augment or support operational movement requirements of the JFC. (JL(D) JIC pg. 16)
4.1.1.1	Strategically Move the Force	The ability to move forces, equipment and initial sustainment over intertheater distances.
4.1.1.2	Operationally Move the Force	The ability to move forces, equipment, and initial sustainment within theater operational areas and over intratheater distances.
4.1.2	Sustain the Force	The ability to deliver supplies, equipment and personnel replacements to the joint force. (JL(D) JIC pg. 17)
4.1.2.1	Deliver Non-Unit-Related Cargo	The ability to move non-unit-related cargo (supplies and equipment) between point of origin and point of need.
4.1.2.2	Deliver Non-Unit-Related Personnel	The ability to deliver and retrograde non-unit-related personnel between point of origin and point of need.
4.1.3	Operate the Joint Deployment and Distribution Enterprise	The ability to control, conduct and protect Joint Deployment Distribution Enterprise (JDDE) operations and accomplish necessary JDDE capability development activities to operate across the strategic, operational, and tactical continuum with integrated, robust, and responsive physical, information, communication and financial networks. (From JL(D) JIC page 11 and pages 18-21)
4.2	Supply	The ability to identify and select supply sources, schedule deliveries, receive, verify, and transfer product and authorize supplier payments. It includes the ability to see and manage inventory levels, capital assets, business rules, supplier networks and agreements (to include import requirements) as well as assessment of supplier performance.
4.2.1	Manage Supplies and Equipment	The ability to maintain accountability and set retention levels of materiel and equipment.
4.2.2	Inventory Management	The ability to control cataloging requirements forecasting, procurement scheduling, distribution, and overhaul (DX/RX) and disposal of materiel.
4.2.3	Manage Supplier Networks	The ability to source requirements from the industrial base to meet routine and surge requirements.
4.3	Maintain	The ability to manufacture and retain or restore materiel in a serviceable condition.
4.3.1	Inspect	The ability to determine faults or verify repairs or determine condition of an item of equipment based on established equipment maintenance and serviceability standards.
4.3.2	Test	The ability to evaluate the operational condition of an end item or subsystem thereof against an established standard or performance parameter.
4.3.3	Service	The ability to conduct preventive maintenance checks and scheduled maintenance to detect, correct or prevent minor faults before these faults cause serious damage, failure, or injury.
4.3.3.1	Activate / Inactivate	The ability to return an item from preservation, storage, or inactive status to an active, serviceable status by means of removal from storage and containers, stripping, inspection, servicing, testing and repair, or replacement of components, assemblies, or subassemblies as required.
4.3.3.2	Reclaim	The ability to process authorized end items, assemblies, or subassemblies to obtain parts or components that are to be retained in operating materials and supplies prior to taking disposal action. Includes demilitarization actions on items prior to disposal.
4.3.4	Repair	The ability to restore an item to serviceable condition through correction of a specific failure or condition.
4.3.5	Rebuild	The ability to recapitalize an item to a standard as nearly as possible to its original condition in appearance, performance, and life expectancy.
4.3.5.1	Modify	The ability to change an item such that one or more measurable characteristics is altered to improve equipment performance, increase reliability, improve supportability, or enhance safety. Modify includes conversion of items to change their mission, performance, or capability.
4.3.5.2	Renovate	The ability to prove, test, evaluate, inspect, and rework ammunition or ordnance items as required for retaining their desired capability.
4.3.6	Calibration	The ability to compare an instrument with an unverified accuracy to an instrument of known or greater accuracy to detect and correct any discrepancy in the accuracy of the unverified instrument.
4.4	Logistics Services	The ability to provide services and functions essential to the technical management and support of the joint force.
4.4.1	Food Service	The ability to plan, synchronize and manage subsistence support to the joint force to include dining facility management, subsistence procurement and storage, food preparation, field feeding and nutrition awareness.
4.4.1.1	Basecamp Feeding	The ability to receive, store, prepare, and serve nutritious meals, authorized enhancements, and supplements in a sanitary expeditionary dining facility environment, based on theater ration cycle and mix, with the ability to project meals to disbursed populations.
4.4.1.2	Forward Unit Feeding	The ability to receive, store, centrally prepare and serve operational rations, authorized enhancements, and supplements under sanitary field feeding conditions to disbursed populations in a tactical field environment.
4.4.1.3	Remote Unit Feeding	The ability to receive, store, and prepare meals, authorized enhancements, and supplements under sanitary field feeding conditions to dispersed populations and return the supporting equipment.
4.4.1.4	Installation Feeding	The ability to receive, store, prepare and serve nutritious meals, authorized enhancements, and supplements in a sanitary garrison dining facility environment based on Service ration cycle and mix, with the ability to project meals to disbursed populations.
4.4.2	Water and Ice Service	The ability to produce, test, store and distribute bulk, packaged and frozen water in an expeditionary environment.
4.4.2.1	Bulk Water (non-potable)	The ability to provide and distribute fresh, brackish, or seawater from storage to point of use that has not been treated or disinfected and has not been approved for human consumption.
4.4.2.2	Bulk Water (potable)	The ability to produce, inspect, and distribute bulk potable water from storage to point of use.
4.4.2.3	Packaged Water (bottled/pouched)	The ability to provide potable bottled/packaged water for individual consumption.
4.4.2.4	Ice Service	The ability to provide block, crushed, and cubed ice to support feeding, medical, mortuary affairs, and individual hydration.
4.4.2.5	Water Reuse	The ability to collect, process and return grey water from showers and laundries for re-use in showers and laundry.
4.4.3	Basecamp Services	The ability to provide shelter, billeting, waste management and common user life support management in an expeditionary environment.
4.4.3.1	Shelter	The ability to provide covered areas and other spaces for industrial operations, administration, and personnel.
4.4.3.2	Billeting	The ability to provide lodging to steady state, surge and ebb populations.
4.4.3.3	Utility Operations	The ability to manage and operate power, environmental control, water, and waste systems.
4.4.4	Hygiene Services	The ability to provide laundry, shower, textile and fabric repair support.
4.4.4.1	Personal Hygiene Services	The ability to provide personal shower and sink facilities and human waste collection and processing for individuals of both sexes in a field environment.
4.4.4.2	Textile Services	The ability to receive, segregate, clean, repair, replace, and return individual clothing, light textile items, and individual equipment (OCIE) in a field environment.
4.5	Operational Contract Support	The ability to orchestrate and synchronize the provision of integrated contract support and management of contractor personnel providing that support to the joint force in a designated operational area.
4.5.1	Contract Support Integration	The ability to synchronize and integrate contract support being executed in a designated operational area in support of the Joint Force.
4.5.2	Contractor Management	The ability to manage and maintain visibility of associated contractor personnel providing support to the Joint Force in a designated operational area.
4.6	Engineering	The ability to execute and integrate combat, general, and geospatial engineering to meet national and JFC requirements to assure mobility, provide infrastructure to position, project, protect, and sustain the joint force, and enhance visualization of the operational area, across the full spectrum of military operations.
4.6.1	General Engineering	The ability to employ engineering capabilities and activities, other than combat engineering, that modify, maintain, or protect the physical environment. Examples include: the construction, repair, maintenance, and operation of infrastructure, facilities, lines of communication and bases; terrain modification and repair; and selected explosive hazard activities. (JP 3-34)
4.6.1.1	Gap Crossing	The ability to enable joint forces to overcome breaks or openings in terrain (dry or wet, natural or man-made) by providing a system of temporary and permanent crossing techniques and equipment.
4.6.1.2	Develop and Maintain Facilities	The ability to develop, rehabilitate, and maintain bases and installations by providing design, real estate, construction and environmental services which extend through final disposition.
4.6.1.3	Establish Lines of Communications	The ability to assess, construct, repair, and improve routes, railroads, intermodal facilities, and supporting infrastructure to allow the speedy flow of personnel, supplies, and equipment into theater and forward to tactical units.
4.6.1.4	Global Access Engineering	The ability to enable theater access by determining and documenting infrastructure capacities, in-situ soils, hydrology, and environmental conditions, and forecast and mitigate limitations to enable deployment and improve throughput capacities.
4.6.1.5	Repair and Restore Infrastructure	The ability to rehabilitate critical infrastructure. This capability includes repairing or demolishing damaged buildings, restoring utilities such as electrical power, and bringing critical facilities such as hospitals, water treatment plants and waste management facilities online.
4.6.1.6	Harden Key Infrastructure and Facilities	The ability to apply site- and threat-adaptable plans and designs, advanced construction techniques and materials in order to enhance the prevention or mitigation of hostile actions against materiel resources, facilities and infrastructure.
4.6.1.7	Master Facility Design	The ability to integrate land use, bills of material and forecasts, and construction requirements that facilitate project execution and developing infrastructure and facilities.
4.6.2	Combat Engineering	The ability to employ engineering capabilities and activities that support the maneuver of land combat forces and that require close support to those forces. Combat engineering consists of three types of capabilities and activities: mobility, countermobility, and survivability. (JP 3-34)
4.6.2.1	Defeat Explosive Hazards	The ability to locate and neutralize the full range of enemy and friendly explosive hazards that may impede routine operations and, in particular, decrease mobility or present a threat to force protection. It includes the capability to detect, avoid, and neutralize hazards in concert with mounted or dismounted maneuver (breach) or as part of tactical/operational movement (route clearance).
4.6.2.2	Enhance Mobility	The ability to enable both mounted and dismounted movement and maneuver where and when desired without interruption or delay through complex terrain (ranging from littoral to mountainous areas), built up areas (cities, towns, and villages to include subterranean structures), and complex manmade and natural obstacles to achieve the commander's intent without loss of speed or flexibility.
4.6.2.3	Deny Enemy Freedom of Maneuver	The ability to enable the Joint Force Commander to quickly dominate terrain and modify the physical environment in order to isolate enemy forces, deny key terrain and impede, deny or canalize enemy movement via lethal and non-lethal means.
4.6.2.4	Enhance Survivability	The ability to provide coordinated and synchronized engineer support (including camouflage techniques) and construction to increase force protection and conserve the Joint Force's fighting capabilities and freedom of action.
4.6.3	Geospatial Engineering	The ability to portray and refine data pertaining to the geographic location and characteristics of natural or constructed features and boundaries in order to provide engineer services. Examples include: terrain analyses, terrain visualization, digitized terrain products, nonstandard tailored map products, facility support, and force beddown analysis. (JP 3-34)
4.6.3.1	Utilize Geospatial Data	The ability to provide the Joint Force Commander with the foundation layer of the operational environment for use with collaborative decision-support, and terrain analysis tools.
4.6.3.2	Provide Mobility Assessments	The ability to understand a planned area of operations through the development of assessments on aerial and sea ports, transportation networks, cross country mobility, and mobility corridors.
4.7	Installations Support	The ability to provide installation assets and services necessary to support US military forces.
4.7.1	Real Property Life Cycle Management	The ability to provide for the acquisition, operation, sustainment, recapitalization, realignment, and disposal of real property assets to meet the requirements of the force.
4.7.1.1	Provide Installation Assets	The ability to purchase, lease, program for construction, or gain real property installation assets by any other means, including all land, natural resources, anything growing on the land, buildings, structures, housing, stationary mobile facilities, linear structures, firmly attached and integrated equipment (such as light fixtures), plus all "interests" in the property such as easements, oil and mineral rights, or use water and airspace.
4.7.1.2	Facilities Support	The ability to provide functional real property installation assets with utilities - energy, water, and wastewater; contract and real property management; pollution prevention; and essential services throughout natural or manmade disasters.
4.7.1.3	Sustainment of Installation Assets	The ability to assess, preserve, maintain, and repair any built, natural, and cultural installation assets. Includes regular surveys and inspections, and measures to comply with environmental and conservation requirements.
4.7.1.4	Recapitalization of Installation Assets	The ability to perform the restoration, modernization, and replacement of installation assets to meet tenant requirements and comply with safety and environmental laws to include cleanup of contamination from hazardous substances, pollutants, and contaminants.
4.7.1.5	Disposal of Installation Assets	The ability to conduct demolition and disposal activities resulting in the removal of installation assets from the asset inventory by any means, with consideration of the impact to local communities.
4.7.1.6	Economic Adjustment Activities	The ability to provide and manage activities to assist communities impacted by changes in the Defense footprint caused by base closures, realignments, expansions, or significant changes in Defense industry employment. Includes assessing economic hardships, evaluating alternatives for local recovery, identifying resource requirements, and assisting in creating action plans.
4.7.2	Installation Services	The ability to deliver selected services not related to real property (or personnel services) to meet the requirements of the installation population and mission.
4.7.2.1	Security Services	The ability to provide law enforcement functions and physical security to an installation.
4.7.2.1.1	Law Enforcement	The ability to provide the functions of Law Enforcement (LE) operations.
4.7.2.1.2	Base Physical Security	The ability to provide Physical Security operations and support functions to safeguard personnel, prevent unauthorized access to equipment, installations/facilities, material and documents, and to safeguard them against espionage, sabotage, damage and theft.
4.7.2.2	Emergency Services	The ability to protect and rescue people, facilities, aircrews, aircraft and other assets from loss due to accident or disaster.
4.7.2.3	Installation Safety	The ability to prevent and respond to accidents and mitigate risk to the lowest acceptable level.
4.7.2.4	Base Support Vehicles and Equipment	The ability to manage the procurement, dispatch, operation, maintenance, and disposal of all non-tactical, government-owned and -controlled vehicles and transportation related equipment used for the day-to-day support of installation operations.
4.7.2.5	Housing Services	The ability to manage housing or billeting assignments, referrals, and physical asset management, and provide necessary furnishings and equipment.
4.7.2.6	Airfield Management	The ability to provide airfield services including weather, air traffic control, terminal/special use airspace management, airfield and flight management, cargo and passenger services, and transient aircraft support.
4.7.2.7	Port Services	The ability to perform and provide port services including ship movements, berth days, magnetic silencing, cargo handling, transient vessel support, and waterborne spill response at DoD and commercial seaports.
4.7.2.8	Range Management	The ability to safely maintain, schedule, control and monitor ranges, and uses associated with airspace/sea space and safety zone environments related to fixed point (non-maneuver) ranges.
5	Command and Control	The ability to exercise authority and direction by a properly designated commander or decision maker over assigned and attached forces and resources in the accomplishment of the mission.
5.1	Organize	The ability to align or synchronize interdependent and disparate entities, including their associated processes and capabilities to achieve unity of effort.
5.1.1	Establish and Maintain Unity of Effort with Mission Partners	The ability to foster and maintain cooperative relations with mission partners.
5.1.1.1	Cultivate Relations with Mission Partners	The ability to facilitate professional and personal relationships with military and civilian counterparts.
5.1.1.2	Cultivate Coordination with Partner Organizations	The ability to facilitate and sustain organizational synergy with military and civilian counterparts.
5.1.2	Structure Organization to Mission	The ability to dynamically organize elements and define roles, responsibilities, and authorities.
5.1.2.1	Define Structure	The ability to organize forces to best accomplish the mission.
5.1.2.2	Assess Capabilities	The ability to determine existing and future functional competencies.
5.1.2.3	Assign Roles and Responsibilities	The ability to assign and refine appropriate decision authorities and accountability between leaders and subordinates.
5.1.2.4	Integrate Capabilities	The ability to understand, select and synthesize contributing functional competencies to achieve optimized action.
5.1.2.5	Establish Commander's Expectations	The ability to provide command priorities, intent, guidance, and standards to planning, execution, and assessment.
5.1.3	Foster Organizational Collaboration	The ability to establish internal structures and processes and external interfaces that facilitate interaction and coordination.
5.1.3.1	Establish Collaboration Policies	The ability to promulgate authoritative direction that facilitates the exchange of information and ideas.
5.1.3.2	Establish Collaborative Procedures	The ability to define and develop the mechanism and methodologies to ensure mission partners fully leverage shared information and the exchange of ideas.
5.2	Understand	The ability to individually and collectively comprehend the implications of the character, nature, or subtleties of information about the environment and situation to aid decision-making.
5.2.1	Organize Information	The ability to discover, select, and distill information within an established context.
5.2.1.1	Compile Information	The ability to gather information from available sources (e.g. friendly, adversary, neutral, environmental, sociological).
5.2.1.2	Distill Information	The ability to filter and refine the discovery and selection of information.
5.2.1.3	Disseminate Information	The ability to present the refined information to enable comprehension.
5.2.2	Develop Knowledge and Situational Awareness	The ability to apply context, experience, and intuition to data and information to derive meaning and value. (Derived from NCE JFC)
5.2.2.1	Understand Implications	The ability to derive meaning and significance of selected information in a given context (within specific time and geographic constraints) and to assess the consequences of potential decisions.
5.2.2.2	Analyze Information	The ability to methodically examine information by decomposing it into its constituent parts and studying their interrelations in a given context.
5.2.2.3	Define Knowledge Structure	The ability to organize information into cogent, actionable context.
5.2.3	Share Knowledge and Situational Awareness	The ability to communicate synthesized information and context. (Derived from NCOE JIC)
5.2.3.1	Define Associated Community	The ability to identify relevant stakeholders.
5.2.3.2	Establish Collective Meaning (collaboration)	The ability to form collective perspective of the situation.
5.2.3.3	Prepare Distributable Context	The ability to share cognizant, user-tailorable conclusions with stakeholders.
5.3	Planning	The ability to establish a framework to employ resources to achieve a desired outcome or effect.
5.3.1	Analyze Problem	The ability to review and examine all available information to determine necessary actions.
5.3.1.1	Analyze Situation	The ability to evaluate synthesized situational awareness, including intelligence assessments, environmental condition, and force assessments to prepare strategies or plans.
5.3.1.2	Document Problem Elements	The ability to produce a description of the situation based on the analysis of the guidance and synthesized information.
5.3.2	Apply Situational Understanding	The ability to use synthesized information and awareness applicable to a given situation or environment to further understand the problem.
5.3.2.1	Evaluate Operational Environment	The ability to assess the circumstances and characteristics of a situation.
5.3.2.2	Determine Vulnerabilities	The ability to assess existing and potential weakness.
5.3.2.3	Determine Opportunities	The ability to assess existing and potential circumstances leading to success.
5.3.3	Develop Strategy	The ability to create a framework that synchronizes and integrates the resources available to achieve a desired outcome or effect.
5.3.3.1	Determine End State	The ability to unambiguously define a set of desired final objective conditions.
5.3.3.2	Develop Assumptions	The ability to analyze and build suppositions on the current situation or a presupposition on the future course of events, in the absence of positive proof. (Derived from JP 1-02)
5.3.3.3	Develop Objectives	The ability to clearly define decisive and obtainable goals towards which every operation should be directed in accomplishment of the mission. (Derived from JP 5-0)
5.3.4	Develop Courses of Action	The ability to build and refine sequences of activities to achieve a desired outcome or effect.
5.3.4.1	Assess Available Capabilities	The ability to determine the adequacy and readiness of the current resources and the means to accomplish a defined objective.
5.3.4.2	Understand Objectives	The ability to comprehend intent and guidance within a given situation.
5.3.4.3	Develop Options	The ability to create a potential or series of potential activities or actions to achieve the assigned objectives.
5.3.5	Analyze Courses of Action	The ability to evaluate potential solutions to determine likelihood of success.
5.3.5.1	Establish Selection Criteria	The ability to define the valuation metrics to compare COAs.
5.3.5.2	Evaluate Courses of Actions	The ability to assess the strengths and weaknesses of each proposed COA (e.g., exercises, wargames, modeling and simulation, etc.).
5.4	Decide	The ability to select a course of action informed and influenced by the understanding of the environment or a given situation.
5.4.1	Manage Risk	The ability to recognize and balance the likelihood and consequences of undesired effects with the desired outcomes/effects.
5.4.2	Select Actions	The ability to choose a prudent idea or set of ideas that leads to a desired outcome or end-state within a defined set of constraints.
5.4.2.1	Select Course of Action	The ability to choose the sequence of activities that most efficiently and effectively achieves the desired objective.
5.4.2.2	Select Plan	The ability to choose a framework to employ resources, according to established selection criteria.
5.4.3	Establish Rule Sets	The ability to construct directives that delineate circumstances and limitations for actions.
5.4.4	Establish Intent and Guidance	The ability to formulate a concise expression of purpose, methods, acceptable risk, and desired end state.
5.4.5	Intuit	The ability to make instinctive assessments and preemptive decisions to adjust to and/or shape change.
5.5	Direct	The ability to employ resources to achieve an objective.
5.5.1	Communicate Intent and Guidance	The ability to promulgate a concise expression of the operational purpose, assessment of acceptable operational risk, and guidance to achieve the desired end state.
5.5.1.1	Issue Estimates	The ability to provide current situation, development, or trend analysis and interpret the significance, appraise the future possibilities and forecast the prospective results of the various actions that could be undertaken (DoD Dictionary).
5.5.1.2	Issue Priorities	The ability to provide prioritized elements to all required organizations and assets.
5.5.1.3	Issue Rule Sets	The ability to provide all directives applicable to subordinate organizations and assets.
5.5.1.4	Provide Concept of Operations	The ability to distribute leadership's initial determination of a concept of operations, leader expectations, and follow-on adjustments, as necessary, for achieving the mission.
5.5.1.5	Provide Warnings	The ability to communicate and then gain acknowledgement of dangers implicit in a wide spectrum of activities by potential opponents.
5.5.1.6	Issue Alerts	The ability to forewarn military decision makers, operating location population and civilian authorities of immediate threats and other dangers.
5.5.2	Task	The ability to direct actions and resources.
5.5.2.1	Synchronize Operations	The ability to arrange actions through established links with mission partners to ensure coordination of operations.
5.5.2.2	Issue Plans	The ability to provide relevant plans.
5.5.2.3	Issue Orders	The ability to provide directives.
5.5.3	Establish Metrics	The ability to establish objective criteria to assess performance and results.
5.5.3.1	Establish Measures of Performance	The ability to establish criteria or conditions used to measure task accomplishment.
5.5.3.2	Establish Measures of Effectiveness	The ability to establish criteria used to assess changes in system behavior, capability, or operational environment that are tied to measuring the attainment of an end state, achievement of an objective, or creation of an effect.
5.6	Monitor	The ability to adequately observe and assess events/effects of a decision.
5.6.1	Assess Compliance with Guidance	The ability to determine if performance adheres to established parameters and expectations.
5.6.1.1	Assess Employment of Forces	The ability to determine if forces have been applied to assigned objectives.
5.6.1.2	Assess Manner of Employment	The ability to determine if force employment has followed established guidance.
5.6.2	Assess Effects	The ability to analyze, track, and measure the results of actions taken.
5.6.3	Assess Achievement of Objectives	The ability to determine when the desired end-state has been reached.
5.6.4	Assess Guidance	The ability to determine if direction is achieving the desired end-state and is appropriate for the situation.
6	Net-Centric	The ability to provide a framework for full human and technical connectivity and interoperability that allows all DoD users and mission partners to share the information they need, when they need it, in a form they can understand and act on with confidence, and protects information from those who should not have it.
6.1	Information Transport	The ability to transport information and services via assured end-to-end connectivity across the NC environment.
6.1.1	Wired Transmission	The ability to transfer data or information with an electrical/optical conductor.
6.1.1.1	Localized Communications	The ability to disseminate, transmit, or receive voice, data, video and integrated telecommunications via wire or optical means within the confines of a platform or an installation (e.g., command post, post, camp, station, base, installation, headquarters, or Federal building).
6.1.1.2	Long-Haul Telecommunications	The ability to disseminate, transmit, or receive voice, data, video and integrated telecommunications via wire or optical means to, from and between platforms and/or installations (e.g., command post, post, camp, base, stations or federal buildings).
6.1.2	Wireless Transmission	The ability to transfer data or information without an electrical/optical conductor.
6.1.2.1	Line of Sight	The ability to exchange data or information via electromagnetic spectrum within line of sight.
6.1.2.2	Beyond Line of Sight	The ability to exchange data or information via electromagnetic spectrum beyond line of sight.
6.1.3	Switching and Routing	The ability to move data and information end to end across multiple transmission media.
6.1.3.1	Communication Bridge	The ability to interface two or more common communications media or networks.
6.1.3.2	Communication Gateway	The ability to interface two or more disparate communications media or networks.
6.2	Enterprise Services	The ability to provide to all authorized users awareness of and access to all DoD information and DoD-wide information services.
6.2.1	Information Sharing / Computing	The ability to provide physical and virtual access to hosted information and data centers across the enterprise based on established data standards.
6.2.1.1	Information Sharing	The ability to establish a trusted environment that promotes information sharing, extends the DoD Information Enterprise to DoD mission partners and accommodates unanticipated partners and events.
6.2.1.2	Computing Infrastructure	The ability to acquire, store, process, manage, control and display data or information (shared and/or distributed).
6.2.1.2.1	Shared Computing Infrastructure	The ability to provide computing processing and storage resources that can be used by more than one component, community of Interest, program, or DOD user.
6.2.1.2.2	Distributed Computing	The ability to provide a virtual computing capability to an end user or application through federation of distributed, location-independent computing resources.
6.2.2	Core Enterprise Services	The ability to provide awareness of, access to and delivery of information on the GIG via a small set of CIO mandated services.
6.2.2.1	User Access (Portal)	The ability to access user defined DoD Enterprise Services through a secure single entry point.
6.2.2.2	Collaboration	The ability to conduct synchronous and asynchronous communications and interaction across the enterprise, including voice, data, video, and manipulated visual representation.
6.2.2.3	Content Discovery	The ability to identify, search for, or locate relevant information.
6.2.2.4	Content Delivery	The ability to accelerate delivery and improve reliability of enterprise content and services, by optimizing the location and routing of information.
6.2.2.5	Common Identity Assurance Services	The ability to establish and deploy common identity assurance services across the enterprise.
6.2.2.6	Enterprise Messaging	The ability to perform electronic messaging between users and organizational entities across the enterprise, including providing customer support.
6.2.2.7	Directory Services	The ability to provide, operate, and maintain a global directory of users, to include directory synchronization with other lower-level systems and information integrity.
6.2.3	Position, Navigation and Timing	The ability to determine accurate and precise location, orientation, time and course corrections anywhere in the battlespace and to provide timely and assured PNT services across the DOD enterprise.
6.2.3.1	Provide Position, Navigation and Timing Information	The ability to provide and control temporal and spatial reference information.
6.2.3.2	Utilize Position, Navigation and Timing Information	The ability to acquire and apply temporal and spatial reference information to produce continuous PNT solutions.
6.3	Net Management	The ability to configure and re-configure networks, services and the underlying physical assets that provide end-user services, as well as connectivity to enterprise application services.
6.3.1	Optimized Network Functions and Resources	The ability to provide DOD with responsive network functionality and dynamically configurable resources, to include allocation of required bandwidth, computing and storage.
6.3.1.1	Network Resource Visibility	The ability to determine real time status and effectiveness of network services and resources.
6.3.1.2	Rapid Configuration Change	The ability to rapidly configure and reconfigure enterprise services and resources in concert with the established CONOPS.
6.3.2	Deployable Scalable and Modular Networks	The ability to design, assemble, transport, and establish mission-scaled networks from adaptable components network modules.
6.3.3	Spectrum Management	The ability to synchronize, coordinate, and manage all elements of the electromagnetic spectrum through engineering and administrative tools and procedures.
6.3.3.1	Spectrum Monitoring	The ability to monitor and characterize the electromagnetic environment.
6.3.3.2	Spectrum Assignment	The ability to identify spectrum requirements; evaluate electromagnetic environmental effects (E3); and dynamically plan, allot, and modify frequency assignments to exploit available spectrum.
6.3.3.3	Spectrum Deconfliction	The ability to dynamically predict, detect, and mitigate frequency interference.
6.3.4	Cyber Management	The ability to assure network support for all DOD missions through the synchronization, deconfliction, coordination, and awareness of all elements of computer network operations.
6.4	Information Assurance	The ability to provide the measures that protect, defend and restore information and information systems.
6.4.1	Secure Information Exchange	The ability to secure dynamic information flow within and across domains.
6.4.1.1	Assure Access	The ability to identify and authenticate individuals, groups, and entities and provide authorization to services and information.
6.4.1.2	Assure Transfer	The ability to exchange authentic data, information, and knowledge between authorized individuals, groups, and entities.
6.4.2	Protect Data and Networks	The ability to anticipate and prevent successful attacks on data and networks.
6.4.2.1	Protect Against Network Infiltration	The ability to prevent unauthorized access.
6.4.2.2	Protect Against Denial or Degradation of Services	The ability to prevent or contain activities which may degrade or deny authorized use of network resources.
6.4.2.3	Protect Against Disclosure or Modification of Data	The ability to prevent or contain activities which may expose or modify data.
6.4.3	Respond to Attack / Event	The ability to maintain services while under cyber-attack, recover from cyber-attack, and ensure availability of information and systems.
6.4.3.1	Detect Events	The ability to identify anomalous activities and behavior.
6.4.3.2	Analyze Events	The ability to diagnose anomalous activities and behavior by determining cause, characterizing and assessing impact.
6.4.3.3	Respond to Incidents	The ability to take action to mitigate the impact of anomalous activities and behavior.
7	Protection	The ability to prevent/mitigate adverse effects of attacks on personnel (combatant/non-combatant) and physical assets of the United States, allies and friends.
7.1	Prevent	The ability to neutralize an imminent attack or defeat attacks on personnel (combatant/non-combatant) and physical assets.
7.1.1	Prevent Kinetic Attack	The ability to defeat attacks being delivered by systems which rely upon physical momentum.
7.1.1.1	Above Surface (PK)	The ability to defeat kinetically delivered attacks in air and space.
7.1.1.1.1	Maneuvering (PKA)	The ability to defeat kinetically delivered attacks that can change speed, direction or altitude based on internal or external guidance.
7.1.1.1.2	Non-Maneuvering (PKA)	The ability to defeat kinetically delivered attacks that cannot change speed, direction or altitude based on internal or external guidance.
7.1.1.2	Surface (PK)	The ability to defeat kinetically delivered attacks on the exterior or upper boundary of the land or water.
7.1.1.2.1	Maneuvering (PKS)	The ability to defeat kinetically delivered attacks that can change speed or direction based on internal or external guidance.
7.1.1.2.2	Non-Maneuvering (PKS)	The ability to defeat kinetically delivered attacks that cannot change speed or direction based on internal or external guidance.
7.1.1.3	Sub-Surface Kinetic (PK)	The ability to defeat kinetically delivered attacks beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.) or beneath the surface of a body of water.
7.1.1.3.1	Maneuvering (PKSS)	The ability to defeat kinetically delivered attacks that can change speed, direction or depth based on internal or external guidance.
7.1.1.3.2	Non-Maneuvering (PKSS)	The ability to defeat kinetically delivered attacks that cannot change speed, direction or depth based on internal or external guidance.
7.1.2	Prevent Non-kinetic Attack	The ability to defeat attacks being delivered by systems which do not rely upon physical momentum.
7.1.2.1	Above Surface (PN)	The ability to defeat non-kinetically delivered attacks in air and space.
7.1.2.2	Surface (PN)	The ability to defeat non-kinetically delivered attacks on the exterior or upper boundary of the land or water.
7.1.2.3	Sub-Surface (PN)	The ability to defeat non-kinetically delivered attacks beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.) or beneath the surface of a body of water.
7.2	Mitigate	The ability to minimize the effects and manage the consequence of attacks (and designated emergencies) on personnel and physical assets.
7.2.1	Mitigate Lethal Effects	The ability to minimize the effects of attacks or designated emergencies which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.1.1	Chemical (ML)	The ability to minimize the effects of chemical attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.1.2	Biological (ML)	The ability to minimize the effects of biological attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.1.2.1	Contagious (MLB)	The ability to minimize the effects of contagious biological attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.1.2.2	Non-Contagious (MLB)	The ability to minimize the effects of non-contagious biological attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.1.3	Radiological (ML)	The ability to minimize the effects of radiological attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.1.4	Nuclear (ML)	The ability to minimize the effects of nuclear attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.1.5	Electromagnetic Pulse (ML)	The ability to minimize the effects of electromagnetic pulse attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.1.6	Explosives (ML)	The ability to minimize the effects of explosive attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.1.7	Projectiles (ML)	The ability to minimize the effects of projectile attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.1.8	Directed Energy (ML)	The ability to minimize the effects of directed energy attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.1.9	Natural Hazards (ML)	The ability to minimize the effects of natural hazards which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.2	Mitigate Non-Lethal Effects	The ability to minimize the effects of attacks or designated emergencies which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.2.1	Chemical (MN)	The ability to minimize the effects of chemical attacks which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.2.2	Biological (MN)	The ability to minimize the effects of biological attacks which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.2.2.1	Contagious (MNB)	The ability to minimize the effects of contagious biological attacks which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.2.2.2	Non-Contagious (MNB)	The ability to minimize the effects of non-contagious biological attacks which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.2.3	Electromagnetic Pulse (MN)	The ability to minimize the effects of electromagnetic pulse attacks which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.2.4	Explosives (MN)	The ability to minimize the effects of explosive attacks which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.2.5	Projectiles (MN)	The ability to minimize the effects of projectile attacks which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.2.6	Directed Energy (MN)	The ability to minimize the effects of directed energy attacks which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.2.7	Electromagnetic Spectrum (MN)	The ability to minimize the effects of electromagnetic spectrum attacks which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.2.2.8	Natural Hazards (MN)	The ability to minimize the effects of natural hazards which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
7.3	Research and Development	The ability to conduct fundamental research, science, technology, development and experimentation important to all Departmental capabilities and operations.
7.3.1	Basic Research	The ability to conduct a systematic study directed toward the discovery of knowledge or understanding of the fundamental aspects of phenomena and of observable facts without specific applications.
7.3.2	Applied Research	The ability to conduct a systematic study to understand the means to meet a recognized and specific need.
7.3.3	Advanced Technology Development	The ability to produce innovative and unique components and prototypes that can be integrated into defense systems for field experiments and/or tests in a simulated "or operational" environment "to assess military utility" prior to full development.
8	Building Partnerships	The ability to set the conditions for interaction with partner, competitor or adversary leaders, military forces, or relevant populations by developing and presenting information and conducting activities to affect their perceptions, will, behavior, and capabilities.
8.1	Communicate	The ability to develop and present information to domestic audiences to improve understanding; and, to develop and present information to foreign audiences to affect their perceptions, will, behavior and capabilities to further U.S. national security or shared global security interests.
8.1.1	Inform Domestic and Foreign Audiences	The ability to develop and present objective information and to correct misinformation or disinformation to domestic and foreign audiences to improve their understanding of the strategies, policies, and operations of the U.S. Government and its partners.
8.1.1.1	Develop Objective Information	The ability to develop U.S. Government interagency synchronized themes and messages, and associated metrics, for presentation, to clarify, reinforce, or improve domestic or foreign audience's understanding of the strategies, policies, and operations of the U.S. Government and its partners.
8.1.1.2	Identify Misinformation and Disinformation	The ability to identify misinformation and disinformation that degrades the domestic and foreign audience's understanding of the strategies, policies, and operations of the U.S. Government and its partners as well as to recognize and promote favorable information.
8.1.1.3	Deliver and Adjust Information	The ability to use selected senders and media to deliver themes, messages, and objective information in accordance with U.S. government goals and objectives, and, if required, recommend modifications to theme, message, senders or medium.
8.1.2	Persuade Partner Audiences	The ability to develop and present truthful information and motivational appeals to foreign audiences for the purpose of convincing them to accept or support the strategies, policies, and operations of the U.S. Government and its partners.
8.1.2.1	Identify Foreign Audience Attitudes	The ability to identify and comprehend the cultures, social dynamics, and interrelationships of relevant foreign audiences regarding their understanding of the strategies, policies, objectives, and operations of the U.S. Government and its partners considering the political milieu, adversary domestic politics, partner reaction and US domestic considerations.
8.1.2.2	Develop Cognitive Programs and Products	The ability to develop objective, U.S. Government interagency-synchronized themes and messages, with associated metrics, which will persuade foreign audiences to accept and support the strategies, policies, and operations of the U.S. Government and its partners.
8.1.2.3	Deliver and Adjust Persuasive Content	The ability to use selected senders and media to deliver themes and messages in accordance with U.S. government goals and objectives, and, if required, recommend modification to theme, message, senders or medium.
8.1.3	Influence Adversary and Competitor Audiences	The ability to develop and present truth-based information to competitor and adversary audiences to prompt them to react in a manner that is favorable to U.S. interests.
8.1.3.1	Identify Adversary and Competitor Attitudes	The ability to identify beliefs, perceptions and reactions of adversary and competitor audiences relevant to the strategies, policies, objectives and operations of the U.S. Government and its partners considering the political milieu, adversary domestic politics, partner reaction and US domestic considerations.
8.1.3.2	Develop Influential Programs and Products	The ability to develop U.S. Government interagency synchronized themes, messages, information, indicators, with associated metrics, to cause adversary and competitor audiences to react in a manner that is favorable to U.S. interests.
8.1.3.3	Deliver and Adjust Influential Content	The ability to use selected senders and media to deliver themes, messages, information, and indicators to cause behavioral activities that accord with U.S. government goals and objectives and, if required, recommend modification to theme, message, senders or medium.
8.2	Shape	The ability to conduct activities to affect the perceptions, will, behavior, and capabilities of partner, competitor, or adversary leaders, military forces, and relevant populations to further U.S. national security or shared global security interests.
8.2.1	Partner with Governments and Institutions	The ability to establish or strengthen formal or informal relationships with domestic and foreign institutions, countries, or populations to further U.S. national security or shared global security interests.
8.2.1.1	Engage Partners	The ability to interact with selected domestic and foreign institutions, countries, or populations under available identified and aligned authorities and resources authorities to facilitate development of formal or informal relationships.
8.2.1.2	Develop Partnership Agreements	The ability to negotiate and establish partnership agreements based on prioritized relationships, containing measurable objectives, with domestic and foreign institutions, organizations, and governments.
8.2.2	Provide Aid to Foreign Partners and Institutions	The ability to provide assistance, materiel, or services to foreign partners or institutions for the purpose of advancing U.S. national security or shared global security interests.
8.2.2.1	Identify Aid Requirements	The ability to identify requirements and required resources to provide assistance to foreign partners or institutions.
8.2.2.2	Supply Partner Aid	The ability to facilitate the delivery and receipt of aid in a manner that advances partnership goals and national security interests.
8.2.3	Build the Capabilities and Capacities of Partners and Institutions	The ability to assist domestic and foreign partners and institutions with the development of their capabilities and capacities -- for mutual benefit -- to address U.S. national or shared global security interests.
8.2.3.1	Determine Partner Requirements	The ability to identify and prioritize the specific type and magnitude of partner capability and capacity needed to address shared goals.
8.2.3.2	Enhance Partner Capabilities and Capacities	The ability to facilitate the development of partner capabilities and capacities in a manner that advances partnership goals and mutual interests.
8.2.4	Leverage Capacities and Capabilities of Security Establishments	The ability to stimulate foreign governments and institutions to employ capabilities that complement or assist the U.S. in furthering its national security or shared global security interests.
8.2.4.1	Identify Foreign Security-Related Capabilities	The ability to identify capabilities of governments and institutions that may complement or assist the U.S. in furthering its national security or shared global security interests.
8.2.4.2	Determine Utility of Foreign Security-Related Capabilities	The ability to understand and evaluate the actions and incentives necessary to access the capabilities of foreign governments and institutions.
8.2.4.3	Stimulate the Use of Foreign Security-Related Capabilities	The ability to facilitate the employment of foreign capabilities that complement or assist the U.S. in furthering its national security or shared global security interests.
8.2.5	Strengthen Global Defense Posture	The ability to develop a network of host-nation relationships activities, and footprint of facilities and forces through decision-making and diplomatic efforts which enable relevant and flexible forward U.S. military presence for contending with uncertainty and shaping the strategic environment.
9	Corporate Management and Support	The ability to provide strategic senior level, enterprise-wide leadership, direction, coordination, and oversight through a chief management officer function.
9.1	Advisory and Compliance	The ability to provide advice, counsel, review, inspection and evaluation of policies, standards, systems, procedures and internal controls to ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements and to propose changes to existing requirements.
9.1.1	Advice and External Matters	The ability to provide advice on and manage all matters and services (domestic and international) performed within, or involving DOD to establish and oversee DOD policies and standards on matters including but not limited to Legal, Legislative, and the Media.
9.1.1.1	Legal Matters	The ability to support decision makers on all civil, acquisition, fiscal, military, international, and operational law issues.
9.1.1.2	Legislative Matters	The ability to advise and assist the Department of Defense leaders on all issues involving Congressional testimony or reporting.
9.1.2	Audit, Inspection and Investigation	The ability to understand and monitor matters relating to effective operations of DOD with particular regard to internal review activities.
9.1.2.1	Audits	The ability to analyze the control of DoD resources to ensure compliance and to provide recommendations for improvement.
9.1.2.2	Inspections	The ability to perform inspection of DoD personnel and property, particularly as relates to operational readiness.
9.1.2.3	Investigations	The ability to thoroughly examine issues raised by audits and investigations or by credible allegations including, but not limited to, negligence, misconduct, or misappropriation of funding.
9.1.3	Operational Test and Evaluation	The ability to understand and monitor matters relating to the operational effectiveness, suitability and survivability of systems in their expected combat environment.
9.2	Strategy and Assessment	The ability to establish the direction and priority of activities that DOD must do in support of its Constitutional responsibilities.
9.2.1	Strategy Development	The ability to assess the security environment, establish a DOD direction, strategic goals, priorities, objectives and guidance. Includes enterprise-level planning activities to determine the integrated and balanced military forces and Joint force capabilities needed to accomplish the DOD strategy.
9.2.2	Capabilities Development	The ability to translate, validate and prioritize capability and capacity requirements or gaps and acceptable areas to increase risk to support DOD strategy.
9.2.3	Enterprise-Wide Assessment	The ability to continually monitor the environment, examine progress towards and achievement of DOD strategic goals and priorities, and inform future strategy development or implement necessary corrective actions to stay on course.
9.2.4	Studies & Analyses	The ability to conduct reviews with appropriate rigor to improve and support policy development, decision making, management, and administration of DoD capabilities, programs and activities.
9.3	Information Management	The ability to establish, manage and oversee policies, standards and assessment mechanisms with regard to Information Technology (IT) architecture, data, security, and information sharing.
9.3.1	Enterprise Architecture	The ability to provide oversight and policy guidance to ensure compliance with standards for developing, maintaining, and implementing sound, integrated and interoperable architectures across the Department.
9.4	Acquisition	The ability to organize and execute the activities necessary to provide materiel for DOD operations.
9.4.1	Acquisition Program Execution	The ability to set up and run programs, to obtain materiel and services required for DOD activities.
9.4.2	Contracting	The ability and authority to organize and run activities required to legally bind non-DOD resources in support of DOD operational requirements.
9.5	Program, Budget and Finance	The ability to direct, supervise, provide advice, formulate policy, and conduct analysis on DOD program, budget, performance, and financial matters, pursuant to DOD strategic goals, objectives, priorities and approved strategies and policies.
9.5.1	Program / Budget and Performance	The ability to direct, supervise, provide advice, formulate policy, analyze, evaluate, and recommend efficient and effective resource allocation and performance targets/measures that support DOD missions, strategic goals, objectives, priorities, and approved strategies and policies including the ability to direct, formulate, justify, and present the costs, efficiency, effectiveness, and capabilities of DOD programs and Defense budgets timely and accurately.
9.5.2	Accounting and Finance	The ability to supervise, direct, advise, formulate policy, and account for the execution of DOD resources, including preparation of auditable financial statements. The ability to direct, supervise, and operate integrated DOD accounting and financial management systems and manage and execute financial operations that provide common DOD support in the areas of finance (payroll, commercial pay, etc), and accounting.