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Defense Primer: Joint Capabilities Integration and Development
System (JCIDS)
Introduction
The Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System
(JCIDS) is the primary U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
process for determining military weapon systems
requirements. According to the JCIDS Manual, which was
last publicly updated in 2021, the JCIDS process includes
assessing joint military capabilities, and identifying,
approving, and prioritizing gaps in these capabilities, to
meet applicable requirements in the National Defense
Strategy (NDS).
JCIDS is designed to formally document recommendation
and justification for the development and acquisition of new
or enhanced military materiel, equipment, and weapon
systems. DOD refers to these recommendations, with their
justifications, as capability requirements. The
requirements validated during the JCIDS process are then
incorporated into the broader DOD procurement process.
In Section 811 of the National Defense Authorization Act
(NDAA) for FY2024 (P.L. 118-31), Congress required that
DOD modernize its requirements process, including JCIDS,
to improve alignment between modern warfare concepts,
technologies, and system development and reduce the time
to deliver needed capabilities to warfighters.
ackground
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) are the most senior leaders
of the U.S. military services. Per 10 U.S.C. §§153 and 163,
the Chairman of the JCS (CJCS) is responsible for joint
military capability development, including serving as
spokesman especially on the operational requirements of
[combatant] commands. This role includes evaluating and
integrating such requirements across the department, and
providing advice to the Secretary of Defense regarding such
requirements. JCIDS exists within the JCS's broader Joint
Strategic Planning System (JSPS), the system used by the
JCS to perform its statutorily required functions. JCIDS is
maintained by the Joint Staff, a DOD organization that is
led by the most senior officers from each of the military
services. For more information about the JCS, see CRS In
Focus IF10543, Defense Primer: The Department of
Defense, coordinated by Michael J. Vassalotti.
JCIDS is one of DOD's three main acquisition-related
support systems, along with the Planning, Programming,
Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process, which allocates
resources across DOD, and the Defense Acquisition System
(DAS), which manages acquisition programs. For more
information on PPBE, see CRS In Focus IF10429, Defense
Primer: Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution
(PPBE) Process, by Brendan W. McGarry.
JCIDS identifies and validates capabilities to fill gaps in
military requirements. These requirements are then fulfilled
by the acquisition of weapon systems using the DAS, which
is funded through the PPBE process. According to the Joint
Staff, JCIDS and PPBE collectively foster the horizontal
integration of planning, resource prioritization, current
readiness, and Joint Force Development.
In 2003, DOD released guidance creating JCIDS, which
updated and replaced its predecessor, the Requirements
Generation System. The Joint Requirements Oversight
Council (JROC), a body chaired by the Vice Chairman of
the JCS, manages JCIDS. Title 10 U.S.C. §181 establishes
the JROC and describes its mission as identifying,
assessing, and approving joint military requirements ... to
meet the national military strategy and ensuring that
appropriate trade-offs are made ... in the establishment and
approval of military requirements.
In Section 925 of the FY2017 NDAA (P.L. 114-328),
Congress amended 10 U.S.C. §181 to direct the Joint Staff
to revise its requirements process and reorient the JROC to
focus less on individual military service-specific programs
and more on joint programs. In the 2024 NDAA, Congress
required that the Secretary of Defense, working with other
civilian and military leaders, implement a streamlined
requirements development process, including revising
JCIDS. The law specified that the effort focus on programs
below the major defense acquisition program (MDAP)
threshold and align such programs with the Adaptive
Acquisition Framework (AAF). Congress received an
interim report on the effort on October 1, 2024, and
required a final report by October 1, 2025.
JC S Process
JCIDS supports the National Security Strategy (NSS) and
National Defense Strategy (NDS), authored by the National
Security Council (NSC) and the Office of the Secretary of
Defense (OSD), respectively. The NSS and NDS set the
President's and DOD's national security goals and
priorities. JCIDS catalogues and enables validation of
requirements before entry into the broader DOD acquisition
process. Once validated by the JROC, the documents
inform various DOD program acquisition milestones.
The JCIDS process is initiated when a military service or
agency identifies a need for a new capability. JCIDS
includes two broad categories of capability requirements:
deliberate capability requirements or urgent/emergent
capability requirements. Deliberate capability
requirements align with historic DOD requirements and
acquisition processes, and, as such, go through the formal,
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