Joint Systems Architecture Development
Abstract
This program supports the Department's Initiative to Build Sustainable and Long-Term Advantage. The Joint Systems Architecture Development (JSAD) program directly supports the first priority of the 2018 National Defense Strategy, which is to increase lethality. All efforts within the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for Platform and Weapon Portfolio Management (PWPM) strive to deliver the warfighter the best equipment and systems, and to do so by performing top down, national security strategy-driven capabilities-based planning by fully leveraging Department and acquisition reform initiatives. Department of Defense (DoD) Instruction 5000.02 and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction 3170.01 promulgate capabilities-based requirements and acquisition processes. The JSAD program enables collaborative efforts to achieve these goals with a focus on Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs). These efforts entail use of Capability Portfolio Management, as well as application of mission engineering to develop mission threads; assessments of joint capability areas and joint integrating concepts, development of system-related data, integrated roadmaps to support acquisition investment decisions, and assessments of MDAPs in a capability area context. Activities in the JSAD project are divided into three areas:(1) capability-based analysis; (2) roadmaps; and (3) support tools and guidance. Capability-based analysis provides analysis of the different technology, functionality, and integration impacts of systems on warfighting capability. Acquisition roadmaps guide systems development and associated investment plans. JSAD support tools and guidance initiatives develop systems data, and tools, exploit modeling and simulation and architecture efforts to improve DoD’s overall assessment capability. These efforts guide the development and improve the testing and fielding of integrated systems of systems in order to achieve Joint mission capabilities. The Department uses enterprise-wide approaches which include:(1) horizontal integration within the Department and unity of effort through greater interagency collaboration; (2) engaging in a coordinated and portfolio-based approach to planning, programming, budgeting and execution; and (3) significant reforms at the governance, management and execution levels. To accomplish this intent, there needs to be a focused goal and concerted emphasis on shifting from systems acquisition to capabilities-based portfolio management (or portfolio systems acquisition). This program enables collaborative efforts to implement the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) direction in order to achieve portfolio systems acquisition goals. The program is broken up into two focus areas; Capability Portfolio Management and Reform Initiatives.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2023
- Source ID
- 0604875D8Z_6_0400_PB_2023
- Change Summary Explanation
- FY 2023 funding increase reflects the fact that the FY 2022 President's Budget request did not include out-year funding.
- Service Agency Name
- Office of the Secretary Of Defense
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
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