1. Joint Seabasing and the JCIDS Process
Colonel Greg Cook, USAF
Chief, Studies, Analysis and Gaming Division
Joint Staff J-8
NDIA Expeditionary Warfare Conference
20 Oct 2004

2. Overview
What is JCIDS?
“Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System”
Review of New DoD Requirements, Acquisition and Test Process
FCBs, JICs, and CBAs
Seabasing CBA Overview
JFCOM Seabasing Concepts
Today, I would like to review with you the following items.

3. Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS)
JCIDS implements a capabilities-based process
Rigorous, up-front analysis by functionally-focused teams
More programs (below ACAT I) will get joint visibility
Nine month (+) development process
Processes are aligned
Capability Needs across OSD, Intelligence Community, National Security Space Architect
Acquisition process with AT&L, NII, and DoD Space Acquisition Milestone Decision Authority
Resource Allocation process

4. Joint Integrating Concept
JCIDS Process Overview
Concepts
Joint Integrating Concept
Potential Capability
Improvement Areas
Force Management
Protection
Focused Logistics
HLS
MCO
JSB
STAB OPS
STRAT DEFT
USA
USN
USAF
USMC
Service Concepts
Joint Functional Concepts
Joint Operating Concepts
Capability
Disconnect
Joint Integrating Concept
Joint
Operations
Concepts
- Integrated Priority Lists
- Joint Quarterly Readiness Review
- Lessons Learned
- Service Programs
- Strategic Planning Guidance
- Joint Experimentation
- ACTDs
Command & Control
Battlespace Awareness
Joint Operating
Concepts
Joint Functional Concepts
Joint Integrating Concepts
SecDef
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Requirements Oversight Council
Resource Strategy
Capability Roadmap
Capability Assessment
This chart is intended to develop the next level of detail as to how this method would work.
First, in the upper left corner we see Concepts translated into architectures.
Military judgment is applied to those concepts by the JROC validating a specific set of attributes which apply to each of the architectures. These attributes translate the concept into a way to determine capability. Each attribute brings with it a set of assumptions that underpin it and metrics that measure it.
This then allows all the department’s various activities to initially develop a standard for the critical functional areas (as described by the collection of attributes) and then map current programs against that standard to compare where we stand in capability against the standard. A view of this type nodal mapping is seen in the upper right corner. Once we have this map we now can apply alternatives against it and use this common analytical method to judge and decide. For example (talk to the balls)
Now we can use the analysis to choose capability and map where it will take us in the lower left corner and finally use that judgment set to inform our final department investment strategy for either materiel or non-materiel in the lower right.
This method is disciplined, responsive to change, reflective directly of strategic direction. 
Map Systems to Functions
function a
function b
function c
function d
function e
function f
function g
system 1
system 2
system 3
system 4
system 5
system 6
system 7
Capability
capability
task a
task b
task c
task d
task e
task f
task g SV - 5
Secretary of Defense
Joint Staff and OSD
Joint Requirements Oversight Council

5. Technology Development Technology Development
DOD End-to-End Requirements, Acquisition, and Test Process
DAB Capability Area Reviews (CARs)
Refined concept
Analysis of Alternatives
Technology Development Strategy
SoS System Engineering
Strategic Planning Guidance
Defense Planning Scenarios
Family of Concepts
Transformation
Affordable military-useful increment
Technology demonstrated
Initial KPPs
SEP
Revise KPPs
Detailed design
System integration
DT&E
LRIP
IOT&E
Capabilities Based Assessment
Capabilities
Tasks
Attributes
Metrics
Gaps
Shortfalls
Redundancies
Risk areas
Non-materiel solutions
Materiel solutions
S+T initiatives
Experimentation
LRIP
FOT&E
Concept
Decision
MS “A”
MS “B”
MS “C”
activity
Technology Development
System Development
Production
CDD
CPD
Technology Development
System Development
Production
CDD
CPD
Select a Joint
Integrating Concept
Develop Concept
Functional Area Analysis
*Functional Needs Analysis
*Functional Solutions Analysis
ICD
Analysis of Alternatives
Technology Development
System Development
CDD
CPD
Production
Capability Based Assessment
OSD (AT&L)- led Capability Roadmaps
Evolutionary or Spiral
Development
Army
USMC
Navy
FCB
OSD/JCS
This is the end to end process of how we will develop and field Joint Solutions.
COCOM
COCOMs
Air Force
Services
OSD (AT&L)
DIA
OSD (NII)
OSD (PA&E)
SecDef
oversight
Joint Chiefs of Staff & Joint Requirements Oversight Council
Joint Staff (OSD)
Joint Staff / OSD
OSD (AT&L, PA&E), Services and OSD (DOT&E) Joint Staff (JROC)
Policy
Capabilities Definition
Concept Refinement
Acquisition and Test
*“as is” Roadmaps

6. Functional Capabilities Board
Responsible for the organization, analysis, and prioritization of joint warfighting capabilities
Lead coordinating body to ensure that the joint force is best served throughout the JCIDS and acquisition process
Advisory Body to the JCB and JROC on Joint and JCIDS Initiatives

7. Functional Capabilities Board Portfolios
Force Application
Land, maritime, air and space ops
Joint targeting
Conventional attack
Nuclear attack
CNA
Electronic attack
PSYOPS
Special ops
Joint fires
SEAD
Military deception
Battlespace Awareness
All source Intel collection
Environmental data collection
Predictive analysis
Knowledge management
Protection
Personnel and infrastructure protection
CND
Counter- proliferation
Non-proliferation
Consequence management
Force Management
Readiness
Joint Manning
Global Posture
AC/RC
Force Generation
Command Relationships
Global Visibility of force structure issues
Force Management Data Construct
Building Global Force Management (GFM) Capability
Seabasing
Net-Centric
Comms and computer environment
Own force info collection
Command and Control
COP
JFC2
Focused Logistics
Deployment distribution
Sustainment
Medical
Mobility
Logistics C2

8. Joint Integrating Concept
Definition:
A description of how a Joint Force Commander integrates functional means to achieve operational ends.
Includes a list of essential battlespace effects (including supporting tasks, measures of effectiveness, and measures of performance) and a CONOPS for integrating these effects together to achieve the desired endstate
Purpose:
Initiates Capability Based Assessments
Describes the Joint Force Commander’s future operating environment, how the force will be used to accomplish objectives
Integrates Joint functional capabilities in the context of a JOC (e.g., MCO-JUSS)

9. Relationship Between Current JICs
Win the Major Combat Operation
(MCO JOC)
Conduct Global Strikes
(Global Strike JIC)
Operate from Seabasing
(Seabasing JIC)
Set Conditions for
Follow-On/
Decisive Ops
Apply
Coercive
Pressure
Gain & Maintain
Access to the
Theater
Close &
Assemble the
Joint Force
Plan & Task
Joint Force Ops
(Joint C2 JIC)
Employ
Joint Combat Power
(Global Strike
& JFEO JICs)
Sustain the
Joint Force
(Joint Log JIC)
Reconstitute the
Joint Force
Gain Air Superiority
Gain Maritime Superiority
Suppress the
Integrated Air
Defense System
Defeat A/C,
CMs & BMs
(IAMD JIC)
Defeat Undersea Threats
(JUSS JIC)
Defeat SurfaceThreats
Destroy A/C CMs &
BMs prior to launch and supporting infrastructure
Passively Defend
Key Targets &
Infrastructure
Shoot down
A/C, CMs, & BMs
in Flight
Sink Subs
at Sea
Sink Subs &
Minelayers in Port
Clear Mines
Effects Chain/Kill Chain/Mission Thread
Detect – Track – Identify – Decide/Task – Engage/Attack - Assess

10. JIC to CBA Process Highlights
Month 1
Month 4
Month 8
Month 10
Month 2
Month 3
Month 5
Month 6
Month 7
Month 9
Month 11
Joint Integrating
Concept Development
Capabilities-Based Assessment
Resourcing &
TOR
Development
FAA
Capabilities
Tasks
Attributes
Metrics
FNA
Gaps
Shortfalls
Redundancies
Risk Areas
FSA
Determine initial Non-materiel & Materiel Alternatives
Recommend a prioritized capability approach to meet the need, including initial TRL, sustainability, supportability, schedule of delevery, and affordability assessments
Assess operational risk of each approach
Consider S&T Initiatives
ID Experimentation needs
Campaign-level Analysis
Concept Development
Tasks
Capabilities
Attributes
Metrics
Concurrent Development of DPS-based vignette
Experimentation Inputs/Recs
Solutions
Material
Non-Material
Lessons learned from 2003: Need to step back and look at long-term, sequential process where concepts logically inform and guide one another
This iterative process is collaborative, traceable and transparent
As concepts refined, they are both vertically (nested) and horizontally integrated with one another
Outcome of CBA underpins FCB input into Program Review
SPONSOR
OSD (AT&L)
COCOMs
USMC
Army
Navy
Air Force
DIA
OSD (NII)
OSD (PA&E)
FCBs
COCOM or
Service

11. Major Combat Operations
Seabasing CBA Task
Conduct a Capability Based Assessment of Seabasing in 2015
Homeland Security
Stability Operations
Strategic Deterrence
Major Combat Operations
Seize the Initiative
This context …
Operational Access
Operational Access
Undersea Superiority
Forcible Entry
Sea Basing
Global Strike
IAMD
JUSS
JFEO

12. Seabasing CBA Plan of Attack
JROC Wargame Outbrief
FM FCB TOR
FM FCB Plan of Attack
FM FCB
Capabilities & Lit Review
FM FCB FAA, M&S, Data Call
FM FCB SV-5X
FM FCB FNA, DOTMLPF
FSA & Recommendations FM FCB JROC JCB
O-6 Wargame
GOFO Outbrief
CBA Team Initial Mtg
JCB IPR
O-6 Workshops
Table Top M&S Scenarios # # #3
HOLIDAY
HOLIDAY
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Literature Review
Data Call
VFT Modeling/Analysis
Draft Final Rpt
Scenario Development
Modeling & Simulation
JIC / TOR Development / Staffing
Seabasing Capabilities Based Assessment
Wargame the JIC
Functional Area Analysis (FAA)
Functional Needs Analysis ( FNA)
Functional Solutions Analysis ( FSA)
FAA
Capabilities
Tasks
Attributes
Metrics
FNA
Gaps
Shortfalls
Redundancies
Risk Areas
FSA
Non-Materiel & Materiel Alternatives
S&T Initiatives
Experimentation
Capabilities Based Assessment:
What Joint Seabasing capability does the JFC need in 2015?
What is the objective for that capability? Where are the gaps?
What material & non-material solutions meet that capability?
Which solutions provide the greatest benefit to the JFC?

13. J8 Seabasing CBA Wargame
Purpose:
Scope the seabasing concept for the CBA
Provide joint input to further refine the JIC
Expose / educate a large joint body to seabasing concepts
Objectives:
Obtain Joint Force Commander inputs on seabasing
Identify and test potential seabasing CONOPs
Determine which 2015 capabilities (forces/assets) might be involved in a CoCom CONOPs that uses seabasing concepts
Understand feasibility of executing a CONOPs with seabasing
Determine how an enemy might react to seabasing and obtain initial threat-based risk assessment

14. Baseline Assumptions Timeframe: 2015 Focus: Operational Level of War
Force Structure: Joint forces based on Multi-Service Force Data (MSFD)
CONOPS: based on Defense Planning Scenario(s)
Context: Seize the Initiative Phase of MCO

15. JFCOM Joint Seabasing “Experimentation Hypothesis”
IF a coherently joint expeditionary force is rapidly deployed, employed, sustained, and reconstituted/redeployed from a joint sea base,
AND operations/logistics are interrelated and networked through an adaptive command and control infrastructure,
AND with the necessary connectors and interdependent nodes/platforms/capabilities,
THEN sufficient combat power can be applied earlier to deter conflict and rapidly set the conditions for defeating an adaptive, asymmetric adversary in a distributed, anti-access/area denial environment, thereby leading to earlier conflict resolution
“Table stakes” to enter the world of experimentation!!
Complex process for developing, testing, & validating hypotheses
Experimentation “questions” to aid is assessment of progress

16. How “Joint” is Joint Seabasing?!!
“Deconflicted”
“Interoperable”
“Interdependent”
JOINT SEA BASING

17. Joint Seabasing CONOPS (JFCOM perspective)
UNCLASSIFIED
Joint Seabasing CONOPS (JFCOM perspective)
Joint C2/
Joint Force Protection
(Sea Shield, “Land Shield”, “Air Shield”)
“Sea Based Rapid Response Force”
Task organized; BDE (++)
Navy CSG
USCG Deepwater
USMC ESG
Tailored Joint Capabilities
Packages
Combat Log
Force - CLF
“JMPF(F)”
(Army AABDE/ARF)
JOINT
Sea Base
“JMPF(F)”
(USMC MEB)
Joint Force Projection,
Sustainment, & Reconstitution
“Don Ho” chart!!
Service and complementary capability sets on left (MN, HLS, etc)
Form a JSB under protection of (Joint) Sea Shield and connected by JC2 (extension of FORCENet)
JFC now has ability to mix/match “on fly” from robust tool box of modular force capabilities
Ability to tailor more precisely and adapt to create desired effects
“JMPF(F)”
(USAF AEF)
Global
Distribution
System
Strategic & Operational Air
& Sealift Connectors
Multi-national
“JSV”, etc
“JMPF(F)” – Joint Maritime Prepositioning Force (Future)
(common platforms/tailored load-out)
“JSV” – Joint Support Vessel
UNCLASSIFIED

18. Creating Desired Effects
NOT sequential!
FORCIBLE
ENTRY
EARLY ENTRY
SHAPING
TRANSITION
Through adaptive Joint C2, the JFC senses changes in capabilities required to create desired effects, and “morphs” the scalable JSB to respond (“Sense & Respond”) s s s s fe fe s s s fe
JSB is a “Sense & Respond” system” (adaptable) (OSD/OFT)
Campaign should NOT be considered as a linear/sequential process
Morph seamlessly to the unpredictable mission r’qmts s
Desired
effects fe s ee fe ee fe s ee ee t ee s t
Continuous
Global
Reachback ee t t

19. How well do Systems Perform?
To answer this question, we need parameters and metrics that describe key physical characteristics of systems
Function 1
Function 2
Function 3
Function 4
Function 5
COCOM
System 1
System 1
System 1
System 1
Supported Component
MCC
System 2
System 2
System 2
System 2
System 3
System 3
System 4
System 4
System 4
System 5
System 5
ACC
System 6
System 6
CJTF
System 7
System 7
System 8
System 8
System 8
System 9
System 9
GCC
Supporting Components
System 7
System 7
SOCC
System 12
System 12
System 13
System 13
Other Supporting
CoComs & Agencies
System 14
System 14
System 15
System 15
System 15
System 16
System 16
System 16

20. We’ve got Gaps!! . . . So What? Capability Severity of Impact
Helps to answer the “so what?” question
Puts identified gaps into perspective
Starting point for discussions of relative risk
Function 4
Robust
Function 5
Capability
Effective
Function 1
Function 2
Function 3
Insufficient
Catastrophic Extensive Major Substantial Modest Minor
Severity of Impact
Risk Associated with Each Function Must Be Considered to Frame Subsequent Solutions Analysis and Resource Allocation Decisions

21. JCIDS Lessons Learned
Developing and organizing tasks/capabilities prior to any writing provides disciplined approach
Use available resources (OPLANs, UJTL, studies, etc)
Use DPS scenarios; they provide the most challenging threat and add the most rigor to concept
Get all stakeholders involved; avoid surprises
Transparency: Web sites, , conferences, workshops, etc
Feedback: Get GO/FO visibility early and often
Maintain objectivity, joint perspective

22. Technology Development Technology Development
DOD End-to-End Requirements, Acquisition, and Test Process
DAB Capability Area Reviews (CARs)
Refined concept
Analysis of Alternatives
Technology Development Strategy
SoS System Engineering
Strategic Planning Guidance
Defense Planning Scenarios
Family of Concepts
Transformation
Affordable military-useful increment
Technology demonstrated
Initial KPPs
SEP
Revise KPPs
Detailed design
System integration
DT&E
LRIP
IOT&E
Capabilities Based Assessment
Capabilities
Tasks
Attributes
Metrics
Gaps
Shortfalls
Redundancies
Risk areas
Non-materiel solutions
Materiel solutions
S+T initiatives
Experimentation
LRIP
FOT&E
Concept
Decision
MS “A”
MS “B”
MS “C”
activity
Technology Development
System Development
Production
CDD
CPD
Technology Development
System Development
Production
CDD
CPD
Select a Joint
Integrating Concept
Develop Concept
Functional Area Analysis
*Functional Needs Analysis
*Functional Solutions Analysis
ICD
Analysis of Alternatives
Technology Development
System Development
CDD
CPD
Production
Capability Based Assessment
OSD (AT&L)- led Capability Roadmaps
Evolutionary or Spiral
Development
Army
USMC
Navy
FCB
OSD/JCS
This is the end to end process of how we will develop and field Joint Solutions.
COCOM
COCOMs
Air Force
Services
OSD (AT&L)
DIA
OSD (NII)
OSD (PA&E)
SecDef
oversight
Joint Chiefs of Staff & Joint Requirements Oversight Council
Joint Staff (OSD)
Joint Staff / OSD
OSD (AT&L, PA&E), Services and OSD (DOT&E) Joint Staff (JROC)
Policy
Capabilities Definition
Concept Refinement
Acquisition and Test
*“as is” Roadmaps

23. Questions?