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Requirements

Mission / Purpose

The Biometrics Identity Management Agency (BIMA) Requirements Management (RM) mission is two-fold. The RM Team provides oversight and management of biometric operational requirements, capturing, analyzing, integrating, and validating biometric requirements to identify capability shortfalls and/or redundancies. The second part of the RM mission is Joint Capabilities Integration Development System (JCIDS) analysis. The RM Team defines biometric-related capabilities, determines future performance thresholds, manages biometric-enabled capability developments, and assesses evolution toward future capability achievement.

Requirements Section Overview

  • Execute tasks based on the DoD and Headquarters, Department of the Army (HQDA) directives and contribute analyses and recommendations resulting in executive-level decisions
  • Review and analyze existing requirements documentation to identify expressed or implied needs for biometric capabilities, to include Service requirement documents, agency documents, Combatant Command (COCOM) documentation, operational needs statements, and configuration control board requirements
  • Integrate COCOM & Service requirements,serving as the primary requirements interface with stakeholders to capture and refine biometric requirements, architecture products, and identified capability gaps
  • Provide stakeholders a single entry point and feedback mechanism to and from BIMA and interface with Services and agency liaison officers (LNOs)
  • Establish and maintain DoD Biometric Portfolio/Repository
  • Collect data and track status of biometric acquisitions

Groups/Members Pertaining to this Section

The Joint Biometrics Operational Coordination Board (JBOCB) gathers operational requirements and resolves stakeholder issues affecting the joint biometrics enterprise. The JBOCB provides a single forum for identifying common biometric requirements and submitting them for approval and/or validation by senior leadership through the JCIDS process. While it complements the existing JCIDS processes, it is not intended to replace those processes.

References

  • Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence Memorandum - Designation of Biometrics as ACAT 1AM (Assist SecDef memo of 15 May 03)
  • DoD Biometrics Enterprise Vision (DepSecDef memo 25 Aug 03)
  • Biometrics in Support of Personnel Identification (HQDA TRADOC, ARCIC memo, 24 Aug 06)
  • Capstone Concept of Operations for the Department of Defense Biometrics (HQDA Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3/5/7 memo 5 Dec 06)