1.0. Overview
1.0.1. Purpose
1.0.2. Contents
1.0.1. Purpose
This chapter provides background information about the environment in which the Department of Defense must operate to acquire new or modified materiel or services.
1.0.2. Contents
Section 1.1 presents an overview of each of the three, principal, decision support systems used in the Department of Defense to acquire materiel and services, and describes the integration of those systems. Sections 1.2 through 1.4 provide details of each of these systems: Section 1.2 discusses the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution process, employed by the Department of Defense to conduct strategic planning and make resource allocation decisions; Section 1.3 discusses the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System used to determine military capability needs; and Section 1.4 discusses the formal Defense Acquisition System used to acquire that capability.
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