IF THE SHOE FITS
Soldiers assigned to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division (3-25 BCT) try on jungle combat boots at East Range on Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, in March. Fielding a new jungle boot is a long, cumbersome process—and one that could be improved significantly by following the author’s approach. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Armando R. Limon, 3-25 BCT)
• The C-BA establishes that the benefit of the jungle boot is worth the cost.
• The CDD establishes requirements needed not only to develop the jungle boot but to maintain, field, provide training and dispose of it.
A SLOW PROCESS Te Joint Capabilities Integrated Development System (JCIDS) started in 2003 to provide a process by which military leadership can validate capabilities and, through the approval of a CDD, try to ensure that a product acquired by one branch of the military can interface with a product in another branch of the military. For example, if the Army wanted to purchase a radio by submit- ting a CDD, the JCIDS approval process would try to ensure that, before the Army purchased that radio, it would interface with an existing Navy radio. Once the CDD is approved, it is given to a program or project manager (PM) somewhere within the Defense Acquisition System who is responsible for develop- ing the contract to acquire the capability that the CDD identifies.
Step 1: In the first step in JCIDS, the requirement writer estab- lishes an integrated project or product team (IPT). An IPT usually has between five and 15 members. (See Figure 1, Page 116.) Te team members should be key stakeholders associated with the jungle boot, and each member should provide advice on how the CDD should be written. Te knowledge and experience of the stakeholders are vital to the approval of the CDD.
Creating a good stakeholder IPT reduces the time needed to write and obtain approval of the CDD. An IPT should include enough members to generate a good CDD without taking years. An experienced requirement writer who understands the capabil- ity should decide how many stakeholders—not too few and not too many—will form the IPT. (Unfortunately, this was not the case for the jungle boot. See “Te Jungle Boot” in the April – June 2017 issue of Army AL&T magazine.)
Step 2: Te second step in writing the CDD is to understand but not question the need for the capability. IPT members address all
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