Sec. 1063. Assessment of the operations research tools, processes, and capabilities in support of requirements analysis for major defense acquisition programs and allocation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets
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The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in consultation with the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics and the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, shall conduct an assessment of the following: The potential benefits to systems acquisition of increased application of rigorous operations research tools, processes, and capabilities to the analysis of requirements for major defense acquisition programs and the programs of Major Automated Information Systems (commonly referred to as MAIS ) to achieve balance between cost, performance, schedule, and risk requirements at the beginning of such programs and at subsequent milestone reviews.
The potential benefits to the prioritization and allocation of existing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets to the combatant commands of increased application of rigorous evidence-based operations research tools, processes, and capabilities to the analysis of the requirements submitted by the commanders of the combatant commands. The standardization and quality of the data related to requirements submitted by the commanders of the combatant commands for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support that are collected and available to assess those requirements.
The contribution of operations research to the decision making process within the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (commonly referred to as JROC ) and the senior leadership in the Joint Staff for fixing requirements for systems acquisitions and validating and prioritizing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets. The operations research resources, both government employee and contractor operations research professionals, available in the Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation office (commonly referred to as CAPE ), the Warfighting Analysis Division of the Force Structure, Resources, and Assessment directorate of the Joint Staff (commonly referred to as the J8 ), other elements of such directorate, the Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (commonly referred to as JFCC ISR ), and such other elements of the Department of Defense or the intelligence community (as defined in section 4 of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3003 )) as the Vice Chairman considers appropriate for purposes of this subsection.
The extent to which the resources described in paragraph
(5)are utilized, and the degree to which they could and should be utilized, to support the analysis, validation, and prioritization of requirements for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance among the commanders of the geographic combatant commands and for new system acquisitions. Whether additional operations research capability is needed to effectively support the requirements analysis responsibilities of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Whether the current policies and processes relating to the analysis, validation, and prioritization of requirements for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets under the Global Force Management process need to be modified, including consideration of the following: Making the personnel and other resources for processing, exploitation, and dissemination part of the Global Force Management process, and creating means to re-allocate resources for processing, exploitation, and dissemination, including across combatant commands, when missions or sorties cannot be executed as planned. Integrating the assessment division of the Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance more closely with the Force Structure, Resources, and Assessment directorate of the Joint Staff to support analysis and validation of requirements of the combatant commands. Standardizing the requirements prioritization schema, tools, and data used by the geographic combatant commands. Standardizing the qualifications and training of personnel of the geographic combatant commands that are responsible for generating requirements. Factoring national intelligence collection operations into the Global Force Management process for analyzing and validating requirements of the geographic combatant commands. Creating larger number of discriminating standard metrics for support of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance in addition to combat air patrol orbits, sorties per month, or hours of collection. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in consultation with the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, shall brief the congressional defense committees on the findings of the Vice Chairman with respect to the assessment conducted under subsection (a). Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall submit to the congressional defense committees and the congressional intelligence committees (as defined in section 4 of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3003 )) the data collected and the operations research analysis of that data used to validate the requirements submitted by the commanders of the combatant commands for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance asset prioritization and allocation under the Global Force Management Allocation Plan for fiscal year 2015.
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Sec. 1063
Assessment of the operations research tools, processes, and capabilities in support of requirements analysis for major defense acquisition programs and allocation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets
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