The ability to establish, develop, and maintain a mission ready Joint Force and build relationships with foreign and domestic allies and partners.
The ability to establish and maintain a deliberate, iterative, and continuous process of planning and development of the current and future Joint Force through concept development, assessment, and capability development.
The ability to examine challenges and opportunities of the future operational environment and identify potential alternate methods of operating and potential required capabilities.
The ability to translate doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, facilities, and policy (DOTmLPF-P) requirements into programs and structure.
The ability to conduct analytic activities derived from unbiased trials conducted under controlled conditions within a representative environment to help solve joint challenges/problems/issues.
The ability to ensure and support, within the life cycle management of total force human resources, the availability of personnel equipped with skill sets required for mission success.
The ability to develop, enhance, and adapt the Joint Force, complemented by Allies and Partners for unified action.
The ability to instruct and apply exercises for acquiring and retaining skills, knowledge, and abilities required to perform specific tasks.
The ability to conduct military maneuver or simulate wartime operations involving planning, preparation, and execution that is carried out for the purpose of training and evaluation.
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.
The ability to provide fundamental principles that guide the employment of military forces in coordinated action toward a common objective and serves to make US policy and strategy effective in the application of military power.
The ability to identify, collect, analyze, validate, disseminate, and operationalize a lesson that contributes to improved performance or increased capability through documentation of lessons and best practices across DOTmLPF-P.
The ability to conduct activities and engage with foreign and domestic ally and partner leaders, security and other government institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and relevant populations to build defense relationships through formal and informal agreements to achieve shared objectives.
The ability to integrate and synchronize interactions with foreign and domestic governments and institutions to facilitate the development of formal or informal partnerships.
The ability to develop, maintain, and disestablish partnerships.
The ability to assess, monitor, evaluate, sustain, develop, and leverage the military, security, or other capabilities and capacities of allies and partners.
The ability to establish and maintain relations between military forces, indigenous populations, and institutions by directly support the attainment of objectives relating to stability within a region or host nation.
The ability to sense, understand, and orchestrate observables that impacting the operational environment to enable national and military decision making.
The ability to synchronize resources and integrate the activities of gathering, extraction, and dissemination to satisfy all joint functional information requirements.
The ability to translate national, operational, and tactical objectives into time dominant and content dominant information requirements.
The ability to determine the best approach for aligning resources to gather, extract, and disseminate information to satisfy all time and content dominant information requirements.
The ability to proactively track information gathering activities and associated resources, then adjust gathering activities based on new information to satisfy all joint functional information requirements.
The ability to collaborate with mission partners to satisfy all joint functional information requirements.
The ability to gather information from all-sources to satisfy all joint functional information requirements aligned to Data Orchestration Plans and Strategies.
The ability to observe, investigate, measure, and capture information about objects and phenomena within the operational environment.
The ability to discover information, finished intelligence, or analytical insights that provide additional knowledge or context to an event, person, or object across all joint warfighting functions.
The ability to convert data into forms suitable for use by humans and machines.
The ability to evaluate and interpret information from all available sources to develop new insights on factors that may influence the current and/or future state of the operational environment.
The ability to use and benefit from analytical insights.
The ability to provide new information and context about an event, person, or an object to close an existing knowledge gap.
The ability to extract information relevant from all sources to inform understanding of the operational environment through other means, methods, and modalities.
The ability to transmit, distribute, present, or make available data, information, or intelligence products.
The ability to capture, document, and articulate information in text, graphic, and other forms.
The ability to disseminate actionable information intuitively and securely via optimal methods of transport to move the right data, to the right user, at the right time.
The ability to disseminate the right data, to the right user, at the right time through other dissemination methods.
The ability to identify, deceive, exploit, disrupt, or protect against espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, or assassinations conducted by or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations, or persons, or by international terrorist organizations or activities.
The ability to develop information on and provide information, materials, or equipment to a Foreign Intelligence Entity (FIE) for the purpose of penetrating the FIE, or exploiting, disrupting, or manipulating the FIE target.
The ability to determine whether a person is acting on behalf of, or an event is related to, a foreign power engaged in spying or committing espionage, sabotage, treason, sedition, subversion, assassinations, or international terrorist activities, and to determine actions required to neutralize such acts.
The ability to identify, develop, and leverage the talent, skills, and competencies required to implement Data Orchestration Plans and Strategy.
The ability to identify the types of skillsets and competencies through testing, experimentation, and other means.
The ability to incentivize and acquire talent who possess and/or are postured to learn relevant skills and competencies.
The ability to develop skills and competencies through training, education, and other means.
The ability to understand, organize, and deploy talent in positions/roles which complement their skillsets and maximize return on investment of newly acquired skills.
The ability to incentivize the workforce to maximize retention and minimize turnover.
The ability to integrate maneuver and kinetic, electromagnetic, and informational fires to gain a position of advantage and/or create lethal or nonlethal effects on designated targets.
The ability to move to a position of advantage.
The ability to move to a position of advantage in the air domain.
The ability to move to a position of advantage in the space domain.
The ability to move to a position of advantage in the land domain.
The ability to move to a position of advantage in the maritime domain, excluding the air space above the maritime domain.
The ability to create lethal and/or nonlethal effects on designated targets.
The ability to create lethal or nonlethal effects on designated targets in the air, land, space, and maritime domains.
The ability to project and sustain the Joint Force.
The ability to move forces and sustainment strategically and operationally in support of military operations.
The ability to transport units, equipment, and initial sustainment from the point of origin to the point of need.
The ability to deliver supplies, equipment, and personnel replacements to the joint force.
The ability to identify and select supply sources, schedule deliveries, receive, verify, and transfer product and authorize supplier payments. This includes the ability to see and manage inventory levels, capital assets, domestic business rules, supplier networks and agreements (to include import requirements) as well as assessment of supplier performance.
The ability to maintain accountability, store, preserve, and set stockage levels of materiel and equipment.
The ability to receive materiel in the right quality and quantity and to enable precise distribution and transfer of materiel to the customer while integrating and optimizing the links or business processes between supply nodes, maintenance, and distribution providers.
The ability to source routine and surge requirements from the U.S. industrial base, ensure global supply availability and the capacity to support operations involving U.S., IA, PVO, and MN partners engaged in ever changing military activities around the globe.
The ability to manufacture and retain materiel in a serviceable condition or restore materiel to a serviceable condition.
The ability to determine faults or verify repairs or determine condition of an item of equipment based on established equipment maintenance and serviceability standards.
The ability to evaluate the operational condition of an end item or subsystem thereof against an established standard or performance parameter.
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.
The ability to restore an item to serviceable condition through correction of a specific failure or condition.
The ability to recapitalize an item to a standard as nearly as possible to its original condition in appearance, performance, and life expectancy.
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.
The ability to retain and/or demilitarize authorized end items, assemblies, and sub-assemblies prior to disposal.
The ability to provide services and functions essential to the technical management and support of the joint force.
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.
The ability to produce, test, store and distribute bulk, packaged and frozen water in a contingency environment.
The ability to provide shelter, billeting, waste management and common user life support management in a contingency environment.
The ability to provide laundry, shower, textile, and fabric repair support.
The ability to conduct contingency fatality operations and conduct mortuary operations for the remains of persons and personal effects for whom DoD Components are responsible by policy and statute.
The ability to plan for and obtain supplies, services, and construction from commercial sources in support of joint operations along with the associated contract support, integration, contracting support, and management functions.
The ability to provide coordinated and synchronized contracted support being executed in a designated operational area in support of the Joint Force.
The ability to coordinate and execute contracting authorities to legally bind contractors in support of military operations.
The ability to oversee and integrate contractor personnel and associated equipment providing support to the Joint Force in a designated operational area.
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.
The ability to employ engineering capabilities and activities, other than combat engineering, that provide infrastructure and 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.
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, counter-mobility, and survivability.
The ability to portray and refine data pertaining to the geographic location and characteristics of natural or constructed features and boundaries to provide engineer services. Examples include terrain analyses, terrain visualization, digitized terrain products, nonstandard tailored map products, facility support, and force bed-down analysis.
The ability to provide enduring bases and installations with the assets, programs, and services necessary to support US military forces.
The ability to acquire, operate, sustain, recapitalize, realign, and dispose of real property assets to meet the requirements of the force.
The ability to deliver selected services not related to real property or personnel services to meet the requirements of the installation population and mission, to include emergency services, installation safety, base support vehicles and equipment, housing services, airfield management, port services, range management, launch support services, and installation feeding.
The ability to perform, provide, or arrange the promotion, improvement, conservation, or restoration of human mental and physical well-being via face-to-face or virtual modes.
The ability to sustain and protect the health and effectiveness of the Joint Force and provide safe and effective movement of ill and injured personnel to higher levels of care within and outside the Joint Operational Area. This includes the ability to provide for a healthy, fit, and protected force; engage in health surveillance; and manage casualties in a Joint Operational area; and safeguard the health of detained personnel.
The ability to provide acute or long- term primary or specialty care to the Joint Force outside of Joint Operational Areas in either the direct or contracted care system and build healthy communities by managing and delivering the health benefit. This ability includes clinical preventive medicine, clinical diagnostics, treatment, rehabilitation, and regeneration.
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.
The ability to align or synchronize interdependent and disparate entities, including their associated processes and capabilities to achieve unity of effort.
The ability to foster and maintain cooperative relations with mission partners.
The ability to dynamically organize elements and define roles, responsibilities, missions, and authorities. This includes assignment, allocation, apportionment, and assessment of joint forces.
The ability to establish internal structures and processes and external interfaces that facilitate interaction and coordination.
The ability to comprehend the implications of the character, nature, or subtleties of information (individually and collectively) about the operational environment and situation.
The ability to discover, select, and distill information within an established context.
The ability to apply context, experience, and intuition to data and information to derive meaning and value.
The ability to communicate synthesized information and context.
The ability to establish a framework to employ resources to achieve a desired outcome or effect.
The ability to review and examine all available information and guidance to determine necessary actions.
The ability to use synthesized information and awareness applicable to a given situation or environment to further understand the problem.
The ability to determine and refine sequences of activities to achieve a desired outcome or effect.
The ability to evaluate potential solutions to determine likelihood of success within acceptable resourcing and risk.
The ability to evaluate and recommend or select the COA with the highest probability of accomplishing the mission within acceptable parameters.
The ability to express clearly and concisely what is to be done and how it is to be done using available resources.
The ability to select a course of action informed and influenced by the understanding of the environment or a given situation.
The ability to recognize and balance the likelihood and consequences of undesired effects with the desired outcomes/effects.
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.
The ability to construct directives that delineate circumstances and limitations for actions.
The ability to formulate a concise expression of purpose, methods, acceptable risk, and desired end-state.
The ability to employ resources to achieve an objective.
The ability to promulgate a concise expression of the operational purpose, assessment of acceptable operational risk, and guidance to achieve the desired end-state.
The ability to direct actions and resources.
The ability to establish objective criteria to assess performance and results.
The ability to adequately observe and assess events/effects of a decision.
The ability to determine if performance adheres to established parameters and expectations.
The ability to analyze, track, and measure the results of actions taken.
The ability to determine when the desired end-state has been reached.
The ability to determine if direction is achieving the desired end-state and is appropriate for the situation.
The ability to share and protect information across DoD and with mission partners coupled with the ability to generate, project, preserve, or deny access to information to improve understanding, decision making, and communication and to affect the perceptions, attitudes, decision making, and behavior of relevant actors.
The ability to transport information and services via assured end-to-end connectivity.
The ability to transfer data or information with an electrical/optical conductor.
The ability to transfer data or information without an electrical/optical conductor.
The ability to move data and information end-to-end across multiple transmission media.
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.
The ability to provide DoD with responsive network functionality and dynamically configurable resources, to include allocation of required bandwidth, computing, and storage.
The ability to synchronize, coordinate, and manage all elements of the electromagnetic spectrum through engineering and administrative tools and procedures.
The ability to mitigate effects of malicious cyberspace activity and resulting system degradation by preserving critical functions performance at threshold levels during a cyberspace threat incident, and then after a cyberspace threat incident recover full functionality within a specified mission-relevant timeframe. Systems include, but are not limited to, enterprise and organizational networks, weapons systems, and critical infrastructures.
The ability to provide to all authorized users awareness of and access to all DoD information and DoD-wide information services.
The ability to make information visible, accessible, understandable, trusted, and interoperable via secure physical and virtual access to hosted information and data centers across the enterprise and with mission partners based on established data standards.
The ability to process data and provide physical and virtual access to hosted information and data centers across the enterprise based on established data standards.
The ability to provide awareness of, access to and delivery of information on the DODIN via a set of registered services.
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.
The ability to gain and maintain access to the information environment; build awareness of information-based threats, vulnerabilities, and opportunities; hold systems at risk; and create the necessary information to plan and conduct operations.
The ability to coordinate and synchronize EMS to support situational awareness, coordination, and prioritization of actions across the Electromagnetic Environment and Information Environment.
The ability to defeat on-going or imminent threats to defend DoD cyberspace capabilities through systems actions internal to the DODIN.
The ability to defeat on-going or imminent threats to defend DoD cyberspace capabilities through systems actions internal to the DODIN.
The ability to manipulate or degrade, disrupt, or destroy designated targets in and through cyberspace, external to the DODIN.
The ability to protect and ensure the observations, perceptions, attitudes, decisions, and behaviors of the Joint Force, its allies, and its partners.
The ability to identify, protect against, detect, respond to, and recover from vulnerabilities and threats to information and induration systems, including information technology and operational technology
The ability to secure dynamic information flow within and across domains.
The ability to anticipate and prevent successful cyberspace threat incidents on networks.
The ability to prevent theft, accidental loss, or corruption of data across applications, networks, and databases.
The ability to authenticate an identity to grant or deny access to information based on associated authorizations.
The ability to control access to data, assets, applications, and services, including information technology and operational technology.
The ability to secure an application by preventing exceptions to the application’s security policy or the underlying information system.
The ability to mitigate effects of malicious cyberspace activity and resulting system degradation by preserving critical functions performance at threshold levels during a cyberspace threat incident, and then after a cyberspace threat incident recover full functionality within a specified mission-relevant timeframe. Systems include, but are not limited to, enterprise and organizational networks, weapons systems, and critical infrastructures.
The ability to exploit, attack, protect, and manage the electromagnetic environment (EME) to achieve the commander’s objectives by protecting spectrum-dependent systems, networks, and operations; tactically sensing the operational environment (OE); and attacking where necessary, at a time and place of choice.
The ability to search for, intercept, identify, and locate or localize sources of intentional and unintentional EM radiation for the purpose of immediate threat recognition, threat avoidance, homing, targeting, planning, and conduct of future operations.
The ability to affect denial or compulsion in spaces and places available to all but owned by none.
The ability to deny the adversary the information needed to correctly assess friendly capabilities and intentions, by identifying, controlling, and protecting critical information and indicators associated with specific military operations and activities.
The ability to apply electromagnetic or directed energy to control the electromagnetic spectrum, to deny the use of the spectrum to the opponent and to counteract spectrum-based actions.
The ability to apply electromagnetic or directed energy to control the electromagnetic spectrum, to deny the use of the spectrum to the opponent and to counteract spectrum-based actions.
The ability to execute missions to defend the DODIN, or other cyberspace which DOD cyberspace forces have been ordered to defend, from active threats in cyberspace.
The ability to execute missions intended to project power in and through foreign cyberspace through actions taken in support of CCDR or national objectives.
The integrated ability to employ required forces and capabilities from across the Joint Force to sustain or change perceptions, attitudes, and other elements to affect drivers of behaviors of relevant actors.
The ability to communicate accurate information to domestic, international, and internal audiences.
The ability to affect the factors that drive the behavior of foreign individuals, groups, and populations.
The ability to manipulate or degrade, disrupt, or destroy designated targets in and through cyberspace, external to the DODIN.
The ability to manipulate or degrade, disrupt, or destroy designated targets in and through cyberspace, external to the DODIN.
The ability to prepare the force to consider human aspects of military planning and Command and Control (C2).
The ability to execute planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments.
The ability to protect and preserve the Joint Force’s fighting potential by applying active defense, passive defense, and survivability measures.
The ability to protect the Joint Force fighting potential, information, bases, infrastructure, lines of communication, and operational environment.
[Air] The ability to direct defensive actions to destroy, nullify, or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air threats against friendly forces and assets, including use of aircraft, air and missile defense weapons, multiple sensors, EW and other available weapons. [Missile] The ability to direct defensive actions to destroy, nullify, or reduce the effectiveness of hostile missile threats against friendly forces and assets, including use of aircraft, air and missile defense weapons, multiple sensors, EW, and other available weapons.
The ability to direct defensive actions taken to destroy, nullify, or reduce the effectiveness of hostile unmanned threats against friendly forces and assets, in all domains and crossing domains, including use of kinetic, directed energy, electromagnetic spectrum interference, multiple sensors, connective system-of-systems command and control, and post-engagement forensics.
The ability to prevent or reduce damage or danger from mines.
The ability to curtail the conceptualization, development, possession, proliferation, and use of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), related expertise, materials, technologies, and means of delivery.
The ability to safeguard personnel; prevent unauthorized access to equipment, installations, material, and documents; and to safeguard them against espionage, sabotage, damage, and theft.
The ability to protect Service members, high-risk personnel, civilian employees, family members, DOD facilities, information, and equipment. Includes employment of dedicated guard forces and use of individual protective equipment, hardened vehicles, hardened facilities, and duress alarms.
The ability to protect personnel, facilities, and equipment from any effects of friendly, neutral, adversary, or enemy use of the EMS, as well as naturally occurring phenomena that degrade, neutralize, or destroy friendly combat capability.
The ability to make the Joint Force’s personnel and capabilities difficult to locate, strike, and destroy by reducing the probability of hits by the threat and minimizing the effects of damage caused by hostile actions.
The ability that enables the perception of objects and/or events of possible impact on the Joint Force.
The ability to urgently communicate and acknowledge time-critical information essential to the well-being and/or preservation of the Joint Force. This includes the relaying of an imminent attack or hostile activities by the threat on friendly forces.
The ability to execute activities, including those in support of perception management or influence operations, conducted by a DOD Component to deliberately mislead an adversary or potential adversary decision makers, or to conceal from foreign intelligence entity collection, and creating conditions for the adversary to take or reject specific actions, for the purpose of accomplishing the friendly mission.
The ability to minimize or negate the vulnerabilities to, and/or effects of, a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear hazard or incident.
The ability to identify vulnerabilities of the Joint Force’s personnel and capabilities to better safeguard personnel, prevent unauthorized access, protect against espionage, theft, enemy actions, and damage.
The ability to strengthen the survivability of Joint Force personnel capabilities, facilities, information, and infrastructure.
The ability to assess risk to the Joint Force’s personnel, bases, capabilities, and lines of communication and apply measures to address and mitigate exposure to threat activities and other harmful effects prior to occurrence.
The ability to urgently undertake activities as a result of hostile or harmful actions against the Joint Force’s personnel, bases, capabilities, and lines of communication and provide immediate mitigation and remedy measures to restore force well-being and effectiveness.
The ability to strengthen the Joint Force’s personnel, assets, capabilities to include the warfighting and supporting systems against threat and non-threat actions.
The ability to prevent, mitigate, and recover from adverse cyber events that impact mission related functions by applying risk managed approach.
The ability to prevent, mitigate, and recover from operations in congested and contested EMS by applying a risk managed approach to protect the Joint Force’s personnel, assets, and capabilities from threat EMS.
The ability to protect the Joint Force’s capabilities operating in space and/or contributing to space mission in support of operations.
The ability to harden the Joint Force’s critical assets to increase survivability against threat actions.
The ability to protect persons not engaged in hostilities with protected status under law of war.
The ability to prepare for and execute the recovery and reintegration of isolated personnel.