JPEO-CBD’s tailored AoA process incorporates user feedback and accounts for the impacts of threat across the joint environment, while allowing it to remove the requirement to identify additional potential solution sets outside of RFI responses. JPEO-CBD has found the risk of eliminating research to be acceptable for programs in well-developed fields with known vendors, and it allows for faster execution of the AoA. (Image by U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center/Nico El Nino/iStock)