Relationship to Current and Future Operational and Support Concepts

a. Describe the operations and support concepts. Summarize the proposed change on the future battlefield.

b. Discuss concepts of employment/operations, sustaining and support interfaces.

4. Urgency/Timing of Need.

a. Define the factors driving the urgency of the requirement.

b. Change in the operational environment.

c. Change in the geo-political environment.

d. Change in the threat.

e. Opportunity to seize critical advantage.

d. Change in another DOTML-P & F domain.

e. Establish milestones, if applicable, for phased implementation of the proposed solution.

SECTION II – Detailed Description of the Operational Requirement

(Discuss the change in the appropriate DOTL-P & F Domain)

1. Summarize the mission need.

2. Discuss the process used to investigate alternatives for satisfying the mission need and developing operational requirements.

3. Summarize the results of the analysis.

4. Discuss why changes in other domains of DOTL-P & F can not satisfy the need.

5. Describe the required changes in the appropriate DOTL-P & F category.

a. Doctrinal Change Required. (Ranges from tactics, techniques, and procedures to field operations.)

(1) Changes or additions to any of the SOF fundamental principles that guide operational forces.

(2) Operational Justification. (Lessons learned, safety, survivability, combat effectiveness, etc.).

b. Organizational Change Required. (Ranges from modifying the numbers/types of personnel and equipment in current organizations to documenting an entirely new organization.)

(1) Changes or additions to any of the SOF Tables of Organization and Equipment (Incremental change packages, strength levels, direct combat position codes, basis of issue on approved programs, modernization guidance, leadership decisions).

(2) Operational Justification – mission, assignment, capabilities, basis of allocation, mobility requirements, applicable doctrine, team characteristics, organization diagram.

c. Training Change Required. (Ranges from institutional training conducted by the SOF School houses to Individual Self-development programs to Unit Field Training).

(1) Changes or additions to any of the SOF training programs.

(2) Needs analysis – mission analysis, job/task analysis, target audience and critical task analysis (collective and individual).

(3) Describe students, instructors, facilities, ammunition, equipment, and funds required to implement directed training.

(4) Operational Justification. (Mission changes, lessons learned, safety, survivability, new equipment, new technology, etc.).

d. Leadership Development Change Required. (Ranges from institutional training conducted by the SOF schoolhouses to Individual Self-development programs).

(1) Changes or additions to any of the SOF professional development courses.

(2) Operational Justification. (Mission changes, lessons learned, safety, survivability, new equipment, new technology, etc).

e. Personnel Change Required. (Ranges from changes in the numbers of SOF Service personnel with specific occupational specialties to the creation of an entirely new occupational specialty and identification of skills desired of these service personnel).

(1) Changes or additions to any of the SOF individual occupational specialty (skill) structure.

(2) Identification of organizational missions and functions. Determination of the manpower types and numbers. Determination of the correct grades and duty titles.

(3) Operational Justification. (duty description/task changes, mission changes, lessons learned, safety, survivability, new equipment, new technology, etc).

f. Facilities Change Required. (Ranges from minor military construction to major construction).

(1) Identify required additions, changes to existing facilities.

SECTION III - Impact On Other Dimensions of DOTML-P & F