This activity supports the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) and the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) in identifying, assessing, and prioritizing joint military capability needs as required by law. The capabilities are identified by analyzing what is required across all functional areas to accomplish the mission.

Perform executive level planning activity reviews the national military and national security strategies, develop the department's strategic goals, and align the priorities to effectively execute these strategic goals.

This activity ensures that the planning goals and programming objectives are consistent with the National Military and National Security strategies. This activity also identifies focus areas to identify priorities that will be used to develop fiscal and program guidance.

The issuance of the annual guidance consistent with Strategic Planning Guidance (SPG). Provides fiscal constraints that must be observed by DoD Components in the formulation of force structures and by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and joint staff in reviewing proposed programs.

This activity describes the issuance of top-line fiscal control provided to each of the services and components for use in preparing their POMs. This guidance provides fiscal constraints that must be observed by DoD Components in the formulation of force structures and by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and joint staff in reviewing proposed programs.

This activity reviews the consolidated POMs or PCPs in accordance with program views of overarching enterprise and services contributions to defense capabilities and program resource (and to-be performance-cost) requirements. Conflicting or outstanding POM/PCP program fulfillment issues are noted for subsequent program management and executive review and evaluation. The review and evaluation of the compiled POMs/PCPs is performed by the OSD, Joint Chief of Staff, Senior Leader Review Group members and COCOMS. This activity involves an iterative review and update activity aimed at finalizing and approving the individual POMs/PCPs submitted by the services/agencies. The POMs or PCPs are reviewed in terms of the specific needs of these areas of defense using the published Major Issues List.

This activity develops and resolves programmatic issues. The issues are discussed, alternatives identified and approaches negotiated and resolved among the services and programs. OSD, in conjunction with other executive-level leaders described, review specific major issue documents prepared as part of this activity and forwarded to the SECDEF for resolution. Decisions reached are issued to the components for finalization of the POMs/PCPs. Minor Issues are managed by a smaller group with recommendations forwarded to the DEPSECDEF for approval. Following the staff review of the POMs SLRG members, Function Capabilities Boards, and the COCOMs submit issues for consideration to OSD. Additionally, the Joint Staff participates in the development of the issues by providing members to an issue team lead by an OSD PA&E issues analyst. After the issues are considered by the SLRG, the Deputy SECDEF makes a preliminary decision on each one they are incorporated into the Issue Book for review by the Secretary of Defense.

This activity generates the Program Decision Memorandum (PDM) after the POMs/PCPs have been finalized and accepted. The PDM incorporates the major program decisions reached that have been or are to be incorporated into the individual POMs/PCPs of the services and programs.

Upon receipt of a PDM the COCOMs, components, DOD agencies and activities incorporate the decision in their POM/Budget submission and update the FYDP. Updates to the FYDP are required coincident with the Program and Budget Review and the President?s Budget.

This activity collects the POMs and BES from the military services and defense agencies for review. On the even-numbered On-Budget years, the services submit their Program Objective Memorandum and Budget Estimate Submissions. Each program and budget information is based on the programs and fiscal guidance contained in the JPG; and includes the prior, current, and two budget fiscal years. On the odd-numbered Off-Budget years, the services submit their Program Change Proposals and Budget Change Proposals.

The budget plan is a blueprint for using financial resources during any given fiscal period or series of periods. The budget planning guidance includes updates to the budget plan as necessary and reporting on the use of resources against these plans throughout the year. This guidance will be the authoritative source for the military services and defense agencies in developing their Budget Estimates Submissions and Budget Change Proposals.

This activity is where the budget estimates are reviewed by the OSD and OMB to ensure proper pricing, reasonableness, and executability. The OSD and OMB conducts budget hearings with components to ensure that the budget estimates are in alignment with the areas of interest of the Administration. Major Budget Issues are identified for resolution. Based on the results of the evaluation, draft Program Budget Decisions (PDBs) are written for review and coordination.

This activity supports the budget hearing review with OSD and OMB. The review is coordinated with all of the stakeholders on a particular issue. Through this review process, all perspectives including those of the Chairman of the Joint Staff, Under Secretaries of Defense, Service Secretaries, and OMB are considered as an integral part of the decision-making process.

This activity describes the issuance of Program Budget Decision and other decisions to reflect the SECDEF's final decision on the submitted budget from the components. This decision could include final outcome and budget issues identified during the OSD/OMB budget review process.

This activity incorporates the Program Decision Memorandum to the budgeting system.

This activity describes the process of negotiating the DoD's proposed budget amount for inclusion to the President's budget submission. This activity also captures economic assumption as key factor in determining the appropriate funding for a specific program.

This activity consolidates the Services' and the Office of the Secretary of Defense's (OSD) final BES into the Department's initial submission of DoD's portion of the President's Budget. Finals changes to the budget, including "passbacks" are incorporated to the final budget submission to OMB for inclusion to the President's Budget, which is submitted to Congress for funding. This activity also includes the creation of Line Item Detailed Justification Materials to be submitted to the Congress before the congressional budget hearing.

This activity describes the roles and responsibilities of the department in the congressional hearing budget review. At this activity, the department will have the opportunity to present their testimony and additional information concerning their budget proposal.

This activity occurs between the time the President's Budget is submitted to Congress and up to and including the time that appropriations are enacted. This activity also captures the markups and markdowns as result of the budget negotiation between the Congress, DoD, and OMB.

This activity focuses on identifying amounts available and additional authority request for distribution under the Continuing Resolution Act.

This activity establishes the budget authority as the beginning of the execution process. This activity records an agency's budgetary resources and supports the establishment of legal budgetary limitations within the agency, including appropriation warrants, apportionments, reapportionments, transfer allocations, and continuing resolutions. It also supports the establishment of funding to agencies that are not subject to apportionment.

This activity implements a specific Letter of Offer and Acceptance document in the Foreign Military Sales Trust Fund. Letters of Offer and Acceptance documents (Basic, Amendment, Modification and Lease) are implemented upon acceptance and receipt of a deposit, if required. On an exception basis, DSCA may authorize emergency implementation when the document is in accepted status and prior to receipt of the required deposit. This activity establishes the contract authority for the implemented case and records budgetary resources at the case level.

This activity distributes funding and authority to the appropriate Services and Agencies.

This activity manages the baseline for reprogramming appropriated funds within a fiscal year. This baseline will be used as the starting point for reprogramming actions such as below threshold reprogramming (BTR), internal reprogramming, or prior approvals.

This activity realigns funds from the original Congressional enactment or subsequent distribution of funds to new areas. Reprogramming moves budgetary resources within a Treasury account whereas transfer moves budgetary resources between two Treasury accounts. However, the shifting of budgetary resources within a single Treasury account should be considered a transfer if the action moves budgetary resources between separate statutory appropriations.

This activity describes the rescission, deferral, and cancellation of budgetary resources with the Department of Defense. Rescission means a proposal by the President to reduce budgetary resources (new budget authority or un-obligated balances of budget authority) pursuant to the requirements of Title X of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974. Resources that are proposed by the President for rescission may be withheld from obligation for 45 calendar days of continuous session of the Congress (excluding an adjournment of more than three days on which either House is not in session) pending congressional action on the proposal. Deferral means any executive branch action or inaction that temporarily withholds, delays, or effectively precludes the obligation or expenditure of budgetary resources through a special message from the President to Congress. Cancellation means a proposal by the President to reduce budget resources (new budget authority or un-obligated balances of budget authority) that is not subject to the requirements of Title X of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

This activity manages the Department of Defense Acquisition System to provide effective, affordable and timely systems to the end users.

Executive management is the collection of people who administer the Department of Defense. They provide the support necessary to implement the overall Federal Government and the Secretary of Defense's business objectives. They create or approve policies, make decisions regarding Departmental issues, certify financial results, and are the audience for financial and cost/performance reporting.

The Define Cost Performance Model activity obtains the laws, regulations, standards, etc. from External Oversight, Internal Oversight and Other Core Business Mission Areas, as well as the high-level framework established in the strategic plan and budget from Other Domains. In addition, this activity acquires acceptable standards and methods from Industry Partners and External Oversight. Using these inputs, this activity defines model structure and data requirements, relationships of responsibility segments and cost objects, the criteria for detecting business anomalies, and the methodology by which inputs will be traced to the model elements. Ultimately, it will produce an unpopulated model.

The Populate Cost Performance Model activity collects input data (financial and non-financial in nature) from Industry Partners, Government Partners and distributes it to the responsibility segments and cost objects outlined in the model framework. This is accomplished according to the methodologies incorporated by the Define Model activity and produces the cost and revenue measurements (populated model) to be consumed by user communities. The model results may also be utilized by the Perform Analysis activity. The start event for this activity is Model Completed. The core steps associated with this activity are capturing business event data, accumulating or allocating costs to final objects within a model, applying anomaly detection criteria to model results, and reviewing and publishing approved model results. The end event for the activity is Model Populated. The roles performing the steps of activity are the Cost/Revenue Manager, Cost/Revenue Modeler, and Cost/Revenue Analyst.

The Perform Cost Performance Analysis activity is initiated by a request for analysis being submitted from external or internal customers. Upon receiving this request, this activity scopes the request, generates an action plan, and applies one or more techniques (forecasting, comparative analysis, or trending). After performing the necessary calculations, the results are interpreted and packaged in such a way as to provide actionable information to the customer(s). This activity may yield reusable techniques that can be applied to future requests.

This activity manages the diverse aspects of defense acquisition to ensure that each program is capabilities based and supports the National Security Strategy to achieve efficient use of resources. The intent is to deliver capabilities to the field quickly and efficiently, leverage existing products and take advantage of evolutionary spiral and risk driven approaches.

This activity provides for DoD acquisition reporting submissions regarding statutory, regulatory and policy requirements. This includes cost, schedule and technical reporting.

This activity provides programmatic analysis regarding functional performance, cost effectiveness, contract instruments and interoperability across selected groupings (e.g., capabilities, systems, services, agencies and Areas of Responsibility) for the purpose of managing portfolios.

This activity provides an overall acquisition life-cycle direction and serves as a central focal point for DoD long range programmatic projections to include investment area assessment, affordability analysis, acquisition alternatives, and funding controls.

Execute Requisition consists of requesting goods and/or services, which includes, but is not limited to the following activities: generating the request; receiving the appropriate approvals from management indicating the validity of the request; validating that funds are available; reserving the funds necessary for the request via a financial commitment transaction; and routing the request to the buyer with the information necessary for final approval and sourcing.

Receive and Accept Purchase Request consists of ensuring that a completed and usable procurement requisition for goods and/or services is delivered to an authorized procurement activity. This includes, but is not limited to the following activities: receiving a complete and valid request; reviewing the content, receiving the appropriate approvals from management indicating the validity of the request; validating that funds are available; reserving the funds necessary for the request via a financial commitment transaction; and routing the request to the buyer with the information necessary to develop the procurement strategy and award the procurement instrument.

Develop Procurement Strategy is initiated as a review of sourcing alternatives for the goods and/or services requested to determine the products and services from vendor sources that will best meet the requirement. Activities include determining: appropriate contractual vehicles, terms and conditions, opportunities for strategic sourcing, and the independent government estimate for performance. This activity determines the strategy to acquire supplier provided goods and services that satisfy the approved requirement.

Award Procurement Instrument results from an execution of an approved acquisition/sourcing plan and results in the execution contractual documentation and the legal obligation of funds. This may include creation of source selection documentation, solicitations, evaluation of proposals, and award of the procurement instrument, order or modification documents. This may also include the establishment of contracts or agreements that do not obligate funds, but may be used to satisfy future requirements. In the case of a purchase card purchase, award results when the card is presented to the merchant for the purchase.

Perform Receipt, Acceptance and Return involves confirming that goods and/or services were delivered as ordered, any errors were resolved, and formal acceptance was rendered by the government. This process may also include the generation of an acceptance document, government ownership of goods tendered, and the accrual of a liability and expenditure. When formal acceptance is not rendered by the government, items must be returned to vendors. Examples of returns include overages, damage, miss-orders, or miss-picks. This activity also includes physical receipt of goods. This process step connects to the asset accountability portion of the BEA.

Administer Procurement Instrument or IGT Order is composed of monitoring the contract, Intragovernmental (IGT) Order, agreement or order to ensure that a supplier is meeting requirements in accordance with the terms and conditions of the procurement instrument for providing goods/services and performing the administration activities from award to physical completion including change request management and vendor performance evaluation.

Closeout of the procurement instrument or Intragovernmental (IGT) Order includes those processes that execute contract or IGT Order closeout procedures from physical completion confirmation to archiving contracts in accordance with statutory regulations. This also includes the requirements for records retention.

Conduct Science and Technology delineates the basic research, applied research and advanced technology development activities conducted in support of acquisition, statutory, and regulatory requirements performed by a specific skill set, discipline, or broad business area. It includes activities conducted in support of DoD technology export.

This activity examines concepts, technology, risk and cost in order to refine requirements and defines the program in concert with the warfighter.

This activity defines the strategy, action, schedule, resources and facilities necessary to accomplish and manage the program.

This activity provides information related to updating contract requirements; planning and decision making on funding changes in contracts; determining funds in excess of contract needs and available for de-obligation; obtaining rough estimates of termination costs; and determining if sufficient funds are available by fiscal year to execute the contract.

This activity provides documentation and information from contractors and government activities to relate time-phased budgets to specific tasks identified in the statement of work; produce data that indicate work progress; properly relate cost, schedule, and technical accomplishment; and produce data that is valid, timely, and auditable.

Activities to initiate, control and adjust execution of the program. This activity includes program and acquisition program documentation, pre-deployment and fielding of the system, required support, test and evaluation, and final production baseline revisions.

This activity manages and integrates oversight performed by the program manager of DoD programs in the execution phase to determine current status, ascertain if the requirements are achievable and/or require modification. These activities include periodic and ad-hoc reporting, and acquisition assessments. Oversight shall be conducted in accordance with statutes, regulations, and Acquisition Policy.

This activity monitors and supports the delivery and fielding of the system and its required support elements.

This activity manages and supports the planning and managing of program retirement and/or disposal of operational systems and close-out program activities. This includes physical removal from the field, asset transfer, contractor close-out, preservation of as-built drawings and the transfer, capture or redirection of usable assets.

This activity executes the remaining statutory activities not addressed in the Defense Acquisition Management Framework, DoD Decision System, or Acquisition Business Functional Areas.

The development and issuing of courses of action over specified time periods that represent a projected appropriation and allocation of logistics resources and capacity to meet projected requirements in carrying out the movement and maintenance of forces. This activity balances strategic objectives and available resources against anticipated demand and historical performance. The output is functional logistics business plans that guide execution of supply chain activities.

This activity provides for the execution of DoD installation management requirements to include facilities operations, installations support services activities such as Real Property Space Management and Fire Protection.

This activity is associated with developing plant, property, and equipment assets, maintaining them in standard working condition, and extending their capacity, capability, or useful life through fabrication, assembly, mixing, separating, forming, machining and chemical processes. Examples of these activities include new footprint construction of buildings, and facilities and production of equipment, as well as repair, overhaul, restoration, and modernization of property and equipment. As referenced by the SCOR model for MAKE.

This activity locates, identifies, reserves, and synchronizes materiel, support personnel, and/or services for specific orders, and commits and schedules a delivery date to initiate the transport of property and forces to a requested destination within identified resource constraints and budgetary guidelines. (SCOR D1.3, DR1.4)

This activity analyzes orders to determine the groupings that result in least cost/best service fulfillment and transportation. Transportation modes are also selected and loads are optimized for planned movement. By processing the release order information, this activity produces information about the load used to match resources to execute the planned movement of materiel and/or personnel. (SCOR D1.4, D1.5).

This activity consolidates and routes loads by mode, lane and location; selects specific carriers by best value; and rates and tenders shipments using load, asset, and carrier information to produce a transportation schedule required to perform movement execution. (SCOR D1.6, D1.7)

This activity brings together people, supplies, and equipment in preparation for final movement, and establishes and positions support functions to expedite and control the movement and throughput of the force through the deployment pipeline. (JP 3-35 Annex A to Appendix B) This activity uses information from the transportation schedule to produce shipping documentation used to execute the actual transportation of forces to the scheduled destination.

This activity addresses the receiving, storing, and issuing of materiel at a storage location to produce shipping and packing information required to transport requested materiel/cargo to a specified destination. (SCOR D1.8, D1.9, D1.10, DR1.3)

This activity addresses those functions required to deliver product and personnel requested to fulfill a specific order to a specified destination. These functions include embarkation, transit operations processing, and physical movement, as well as the recording of deliveries at each node and the transmittal of performance information for management analysis. (SCOR D1.11, D1.12)

This activity addresses actions to utilize planned policies, business rules and product operating conditions inspection as criteria to identify and confirm that material is excess to requirements, defective, or requires repairs outside organic capability to include requesting disposition instructions and authorization to return or dispose. This activity also addresses actions to identify and confirm the disposal actions of real property to include but not limited to demolition or transfer. (SCOR SR1.1, SR1.2, SR1.3)

This activity makes the determination if an item can be accepted for return or disposal, and communicates the decision to the customer and the scheduling activity. The last known holder or designated return center (i.e., inventory manager or repair facility) receives a defective, excess, or repairable product return or disposal authorization request from a customer, and either accepts the request by communicating the conditions of the return, including return replacement, credit, or disposal; or rejects the request providing a reason for the rejection to the customer, inventory manager, or repair facility. This activity also authorizes the disposal actions of real property to include but not limited to demolition or transfer. (SCOR DR1.1)

This activity develops a return or disposal order for the delivery of the defective, excess, or repairable product. Functions include evaluating the defective, excess, or repairable product handling requirements including negotiated conditions, and informing the affected warehouse(s) of the product disposition in preparation for return or disposal actions. This activity also schedules the disposal actions of real property to include but not limited to demolition or transfer. (SCOR SR1.4, DR1.2)

This activity addresses the actions required to properly dispose property or materiel that has been authorized for disposal as it is beyond economical repair, not covered by a valid warranty, and is not required for use by any other government organization, per the disposal authorization instruction. This activity also addresses the actions to dispose of real property to include but not limited to demolition or transfer.

This activity records accountability and control for all real and personal property throughout its lifecycle. This activity establishes and maintains the Department's formal physical and fiscal property, irrespective of whether the property is in the Department's possession.

This activity initiates the account that will be used in accumulating full cost of an asset to include all costs incurred to bring the real and personal property to form and location suitable for its intended use. APUID and/or RPUID will be assigned to this activity.

This activity involves the updating and capture of all direct and indirect costs associated with a real property construction project or military equipment. It accumulates the construction and work in progress costs.

This activity relieves and transfers accumulated costs to the appropriate asset record and General Property, Plant and Equipment (PPE) account at the time the asset is accepted and placed in service.

This activity ensures that individual asset records are fully consistent with the actual status of assets, including the physical, legal and financial status. This activity ensures that any state or condition change to assets throughout the lifecycle is maintained. This activity enables the creation of a record and updates the property record with information based on a change to the quantity, condition or interest of ownership of real property. It also stores or flags property records that are no longer in active status. This activity enables the maintenance of the fiscal accountability requirements for asset values, depreciation, amortization, depletion of assets, and any adjustment to the valuation as a result of a change in the condition of the asset. It also includes but not limited to determining replacement value and net inventory value for Operating Materials and Supplies (OM&S) assets.

The Conduct Physical Inventory activity verifies the existence, location, and quantity of real property to ensure accountability and enable accurate valuation of real property. It also includes physically counting/verifying of capital assets to ensure accountability (existence, quantity and condition) to enable accurate valuation of existing capital assets, it accumulates the results of the physical inventory for analysis of variance (ANOVA) which is verified and approved by an authorized official, it determines the source and reason for inventory variances resulting from the execution of a physical inventory, and modifies the inventory control procedures as required. Information produced by this activity is either used to create or update an initial capital asset or real property record.

This activity processes requests for product hazard data (PHD) to be added to the master product hazard data (MPHD) warehouse. This includes receiving, recording and reviewing of the request submitted by the Component. It also includes requesting the needed PHD from an external non-DoD source (eg, manufacturer, supplier or vendor) and recording and reviewing the response. After the received PHD is reviewed it is then forwarded to the Validate Product Hazard Data activity and processes.

This activity validates, prepares and enters product hazard data (PHD) into the master product hazard data (MPHD) warehouse. The validation ensures that the PHD meets the needs of the request, is accurate, and in compliance with DoD requirements. The preparation of the PHD includes creating a new record and updating existing records in the MPHD warehouse.

This activity is where energy program managers take all actions needed to manage facility energy reporting, facility energy goals, and facility energy analytics.

This activity is where energy managers take all actions needed to manage facility energy consumption, including determination of facility energy consumption parameters, recording facility energy consumption, and analyzing facility energy consumption.

This activity is where energy managers take all actions needed to manage facility energy conservation, including performance of facility energy reviews, selecting energy conservation measures to implement, determining energy conservation measure implementation schedules, and performing energy project measurement and verification.

This activity is where energy managers take all actions needed to manage renewable energy production and purchase, including performance of site renewable energy reviews, selecting renewable energy project to implement, determining renewable energy project schedules, performing energy project measurement and verification, determining renewable energy purchase requirements, and managing renewable energy purchases.

This activity reflects the initial actions taken to identify the activities, locations, products, and services where environment, safety and health concerns may exist. This activity provides the initial check on the issue to ensure it falls within ESOH purview and collects enough information about the issue to proceed with the additional investigation as required. As an example, this activity may identify issues of cultural or natural resource or explosives safety concern, a site of interest for restoration, or a process that transports, uses, or handles hazardous materials. The outcome of this activity is the identification of any aspects, issues, and locations of environmental, range sustainability, safety, and occupational health, and a determination as to whether an ESOH aspect requires further evaluation to determine whether mitigation is necessary.

This activity is the study or investigation of environment, safety, and occupational health aspects or issues and the determination of the nature and extent of the issue. A series of steps are taken to conduct this and can include, but is not limited to conducting environment, safety and occupational health inspection or investigation, comparing analysis result to criteria and characterizing nature and extent of the ESOH issue. This activity is where comprehensive data or sample collection and analysis are conducted, and the assessment results are documented.

This activity assesses the health, safety, ecological, or cultural risk posed by the ESOH aspect under consideration. Risk is defined as the possibility of a hazard causing suffering, harm or loss. This activity takes the identified ESOH aspect or issue (e.g., ground water plume, paint shop operations, sound exposure) and determines the level of risk associated with the hazard. The risk finding is based on factors such as severity, probability, and availability of pathways, contaminants, or receptors.

This activity involves the development of alternative ESOH solutions that address the findings of ESOH aspect and risk assessments. The alternative solutions are developed in compliance with ESOH laws and regulations for protecting human health, safety, and the environment, and are evaluated against factors such as effectiveness, technical feasibility, cost, and socio-economic impact. The outcome of this activity is the identification and documentation of a preferred ESOH solution.

This activity develops the required set of operational controls implemented by a mission process to comply with environment, safety, and occupational health legal, regulatory, policy and performance requirements. The controls take the form of terms and conditions established by agreement between stakeholders such as the owner or operator of the mission process; supporting environment, safety, and occupational health organizations; permitting agencies; the public; and other appropriate DoD organizations such as human resources and acquisition. Environment, safety, and occupational health controls govern operation, use, maintenance, design, technology, materiel, hazardous materiel usage, work process, mission process, or facility use. The activity also includes efforts to amend the ESOH control agreement when the mission process identifies the need to modify parameters defined in the original agreement. The output of this activity is an ESOH Control Agreement that documents the agreement among key stakeholders that an ESOH solution is needed to address an ESOH aspect, as well as details about the ESOH solution and how it will be implemented. It may also specify parameters that indicate when the ESOH aspect has been fully resolved. Examples include a CERCLA Record of Decision, a Hazardous Process Authorization, an Integrated Natural Resource Management Plan, and operating permits issued under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, etc. They may also define standard operating procedures, specify safety requirements, detail experience levels and training requirements, prescribe monitoring and reporting requirements, or specify other required activities.

This activity encompasses the design, implementation and monitoring for successful implementation of the selected ESOH solution. It includes all actions taken to achieve the operational controls and outcomes specified in the ESOH Control Agreement. The outcome of this activity is the elimination of the ESOH aspect of concern.

This activity identifies and values environmental liabilities, and prepares environmental liability information for reporting purposes. It also encompasses documentation and validation of pertinent information pertaining to environmental liabilities. The output of this activity is a complete set of validated, properly documented environmental liability information ready for submission for financial statement reporting.

This activity is associated with the integration of force structure requirements into general personnel resource requirements, which enables effective utilization of Department of Defense (DoD) Human Resources. This activity includes both strength planning and executive management of programs required to support related strategic goals.

This activity is associated with reviewing the Strategic Planning Guidance document to create the Department of Defense (DoD) Component-specific planning guidance.

This activity is associated with identifying missions that need to be accomplished based on the Organization/Component-specific planning guidance. Missions are the official tasking by a higher authority that accomplish warfighting and support requirements for specific Department of Defense (DoD) Components. Missions can include modifications to current Organization/Component missions based on the DoD's strategic goals, policy, directives, force structure, and warfighting strategies of higher authority.

This activity is associated with determining the manpower required to support the missions, functions, and tasks of an Organization/Component based upon the strategic objectives, policy, roles and missions, and warfighting strategies identified by a higher authority. It also includes the determination of Force Structure and non-Force Structure requirements (to include the proper mix of military, civilian and contractor positions). Planning must take into consideration peacetime and wartime missions and requirements.

This activity is associated with validating the projected force structure to ensure that it is within the defense guidance and allowed number for positions, performing analysis of current workload, and studying ways to improve efficiency by business process reengineering. This activity also includes both analyzing and building succession plans by ensuring that there are enough allocated lower grade billets to replace natural losses in higher grade billets.

This activity is associated with reviewing the projected force structure and prioritizing requirements submitted by the Service Headquarters.

This activity is associated with determining mission requirements that are funded and unfunded based on the priority list and projected funding allocation.

This activity is associated with identifying key positions and occupations, determining future competency requirements, building target competency profiles, matching employees to target competency profiles, and creating agency succession development strategy.

This activity is associated with identifying consultative needs, developing consultative strategy and plan, developing content and tools, and providing counsel.

This activity is associated with validating human resources performance measures and metrics, tracking human resources performance results, and analyzing human resources performance results.

This activity is associated with matching hiring requests to position descriptions, identifying hiring sources, creating a hiring plan, and providing a management advisory service.

This activity is associated with analyzing staffing needs, identifying hiring flexibilities, identifying sourcing strategies, creating a staff acquisition strategy, and communicating the staff acquisition strategy.

This activity is associated with conducting job analyses (e.g., analyzing Federal and agency-specific qualification standards, classified descriptions of duties and/or job requirements), developing applicant assessment criteria, and developing an assessment approach based on job analysis results and existing best practices.

This activity is associated with the projection of Human Resource requirements in terms of specifications sufficient to support preparation of the Department of Defense (DoD) Human Resources budget. This activity also includes consideration of both budgetary and execution of requirement aspects of mission tasking.

This activity is associated with reviewing the budget decision and identifying the impact to requirements.

This activity is associated with reprogramming requirements based on the budget decision.

This activity is associated with allocating/reallocating approved manpower requirements based on category, program, and quantity.

This activity is associated with the formulation of specifications for peacetime authorizations and wartime requirements needed to accomplish tasked Department of Defense (DoD) missions. This includes the occupation, skill, position requirements, education, and training specifications that the position requires to perform the specified mission.

This activity is associated with reviewing the Manpower Allocation received against the Budget Requirements submitted, in order to identify any discrepancies.

This activity is associated with reconciling discrepancies between the Manpower Budget Requirements and the Manpower Allocation. Discrepancies that cannot be amended are sent back to the Manpower Programmers for necessary adjustments.

This activity is associated with updating Manpower documents with changes to the position data.

This activity is associated with sending the Manpower documents to the different organization levels for review and necessary updates.

This activity is associated with analyzing and validating the Manpower Change Request received. This activity may also be associated with notifying the organization that the change request has been determined to be an invalid request.

This activity is associated with coordinating adjustments needed with other Service Components and working with organizations to carry out the change request.

This activity includes the applying the approved manpower changes, modifying policy so the force manager can implement the given policies, and updating the Manpower document to reflect changes.

This activity is associated with modifying the manpower change request based on the feedback received from other organizations.

This activity is associated with submitting the manpower change request for approval after coordination with other organizations.

This activity is associated with creating, updating, and deleting positions and position details, as well as identifying positions needed based on grade, skills, and quantity to fulfill mission requirements. Position details may include (but not be limited to), position identification number, name, description, requirements (e.g., skills, grades, education and training), and responsibilities. NOTE: The Navy keeps the billet identification number for any deleted position. This activity is also associated with identifying positions needed based on grade, skills and quantity to fulfill mission requirement.

This activity is associated with forming Department of Defense (DoD) organizations within DoD command relationships that are needed to accomplish assigned missions within budgetary constraints. This activity also includes establishing, updating, reorganizing unit(s), developing organization specifications related to the allocation of human resources, Manpower requirements and tailoring organizations to reflect revisions of mission implementations. This activity is also associated with the formulation of specifications for peacetime authorizations and wartime requirements needed to accomplish tasked Department of Defense (DoD) missions. This includes the occupation, skill, position requirements, education, and training specifications that the position requires to perform the specified mission.

This activity is associated with creating the structure for a new unit based on the information contained in the organization change request.

This activity is associated with designating the unit's structure or attributes based on the requirements contained in the organization change request.

This activity is associated with mobilizing or activating a unit.

This activity is associated with changing the unit structure to meet mission requirements.

This activity is associated with executing the unit structure that meets the mission requirements.

This activity is associated with acquiring the unit structure that is currently being used to perform the mission.

This activity is associated with deciding the organizational structure needed to support the change in mission.

This activity includes analyzing both the current unit structure along with the required unit structure and determining what changes have been made to obtain the required unit structure for the mission type change.

This activity is associated with changing the structure of the organization to support mission requirements.

This activity is associated with changing the attributes of an existing unit. Changes to unit attributes include unit number, unit name, and/or unit type. The structure of the organization may remain the same, but it performs a new mission or task. If new equipment is brought in, a reorganization may occur, since different operations and maintenance positions might be needed for the new equipment.

This activity is associated with designating a unit or group as not in use or non-operational. An inactive unit is available for activation when needed. This activity also includes the disestablishing, decommissioning and deactivating of a unit, both active duty and reserves that were activated.

This activity is associated with activating an inactive unit.

This activity is associated with analyzing the Change Request or Mission/Force structure change. Force Structure refers to the organizations, units, personnel and equipment that comprise the Department of Defense.

This activity is associated with assessing and maintaining the current force structure against the projected needs for that same year and ensuring that the current force structure is within a certain percent of the projected target. Activities include recording and maintaining the current and historical actual strength of a Department of Defense (DoD) Component to include all status information essential for personnel management and force readiness determination.

This activity is associated with conducting workforce analysis, and providing workforce analysis information. This may include (but is not limited to) the analysis or modeling of strengths, work years, grade distribution, career paths, accession goals, and losses in relation to specified mission needs within budgetary constraints. This also includes strength planning, detailed formulation of force restructuring programs (e.g., Stop Loss, mandated retraining, Reduction-in-Force), reserve and active duty tour requirements, and support of reserve man days, mobilization, demobilization, and retention initiatives management. This activity is also associated with determining internal/external environment analysis scope and objectives, collecting internal/external environment data, analyzing internal/external environment data, disseminating internal/external environment analysis results, identifying external environment data collection protocols, and defining external environment analysis protocols.

This activity is associated with reviewing and validating the request for analysis of specified information (e.g., strength, authorization, strength planning and grade distribution), gathering the information needed to conduct the analysis, and analyzing the information gathered to produce the required information.

This activity is associated with providing the end result of workforce analysis (e.g., force and simulation modeling information, strength planning information, prospect location information and force restructuring programs information) to be utilized in aspects of workforce planning needed within DoD and may be provided to other branches of the federal government.

This activity is associated with managing the distribution of personnel consistent with the allotment of funds, availability of personnel, and guidance from manning documents. This activity also includes developing personnel distribution plans, coordinating the personnel distribution plan implementation, and providing personnel requirement request decisions.

This activity is associated with developing and approving a personnel distribution plan based on the personnel guidance information, manpower documents and workforce analysis information and distributing the plan to the appropriate parties.

This activity is associated with evaluating the proposed personnel requirement requests against the personnel distribution plan for implementation of Department of Defense (DoD) service mission priorities and coordinating personnel requirements with the appropriate parties. This also includes production of personnel requirement requests.

This activity is associated with capturing the decision outcome for a personnel requirement request to include documenting the validation or non-validation of the request. This also includes maintaining current status information on the personnel distribution plan as well as recording approved variances from the plan and assignment orders that satisfy personnel requirement requests.

This activity is associated with managing, measuring and reporting the personnel readiness of the Department of Defense and its subordinate Components to execute the missions specified in the National Military Strategy. This includes conducting timely, modeling and scenario-based readiness assessments on a quarterly basis, to identify critical readiness deficiencies or capability shortfalls and risks in executing missions, developing and coordinating strategies to rectify these deficiencies or identifying appropriate measures to reduce these risks, ensuring these strategies are addressed in the program/budget plans, and reporting risks and findings to the appropriate parties (e.g., Senior Readiness Oversight Council (SROC)). This activity is also associated with providing reports on current and projected readiness issues, providing recommendations on readiness policy matters, and identifying deficiencies in the areas of training and personnel, to include issues such as medical, equipment, ordnance, and sustainment.

This activity is associated with conducting scenario-based readiness assessments on a quarterly basis. This activity also includes using analytical tools and models, as appropriate, to aid in scenario assessment.

This activity is associated with identifying critical readiness deficiencies or capability shortfalls and risks in executing missions. This activity is also associated with identifying deficiencies in the areas of training and personnel, to include issues such as medical, equipment, ordnance, and sustainment. This activity is also associated with developing and coordinating strategies to rectify deficiencies and identifying appropriate measures to reduce risks.

This activity is associated with making a decision on a risk management plan in accordance with established Laws, Policies, and Regulations.

This activity is associated with ensuring the risks and strategies are addressed in the program/budget plans, and reporting risks and findings to the appropriate parties (e.g., Senior Readiness Oversight Council (SROC)). This activity is also associated with providing reports on current and projected readiness issues and providing recommendations on readiness policy matters.

This activity is associated with reviewing a request for an Organization Unique Identifier (OUID) for authorized/funded organization, determining the organization type (e.g., identification of organization category, organization information and data and parent/child relationships), determining if an OUID already exists.

This activity is associated with obtaining a seed (i.e., a seed is a unique four byte (32 bit) prefix provided by a Enterprise-wide Seed Server (ESS)) from the ESS or reassigning an existing seed to an organization. This activity also includes determining the usage levels for an Enterprise-wide Identifier (EwID) seed account.

This activity is associated with assigning an Organization Unique Identifier (OUID) for authorized/funded organization. This is used to uniquely identify all Department of Defense organization categories (i.e., doctrinal, billets, crews, garrison, and augmentation) defined by Global Force Management Data Initiative. This activity also includes notifying a requesting organization that an OUID exists.

This activity is associated with using an established set of pay criteria and business rules for determining whether an employee/Member is eligible and authorized for a particular pay type (e.g., allowances, allotments, special pays, and incentive pays). The criteria may include (but not be limited to) benefit information (e.g., health, retirement, and survivor), duty status, personnel agreement information, verification that personnel have performed a certain duty (e.g., submarine, flying, and diving), and assignment information.

This activity is associated with determining the earnings an employee/Member should receive based on the eligibility determination for particular pay types (e.g., allotments, special pay, bonuses, and incentive pay). Determination of earnings may include pay and allowances for basic pay, duty pay, Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH), Cost of Living Allowance (COLA), accession bonus, and reenlistment bonus.

This activity is associated with determining deductions from an employee/Member's pay. It includes determining statutory deductions (e.g., Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) Tax, Deductions for Armed Forces Retirement Homes, Federal Income Tax Withholding (FITW), garnishments, withholding for state income taxes, social security, collections, and reductions), processing allotments, determining tax levies, determining overpayment of pay and allowances, repayment of advance or casual pay, sending notifications to inform an employee/Member of changes to deduction or indebtedness information, and capturing the decision/authorization by an Approval Authority to award, change, terminate or reinstate an employee/Member's compensation.

This activity is associated with scheduling pay processing by pay population, calculating earnings and gross pay, certifying net pay, maintaining payroll history, producing pay statements (e.g., leave and earnings statement (LES) and payroll disbursement history), establishing employer contributions for personnel in an effective pay period, applying allotment elections during distribution of pay, and updating pay information.

This activity is associated with determining eligibility for reimbursements, submitting reimbursement claims (e.g., travel vouchers, relocation expenses, and adoption expenses), determining amount due, authorizing payment to reimburse personnel for expenses incurred, or expenses expected to be incurred, and executing reimbursements by certifying the reimbursement expense information.

This activity is associated with receiving and reviewing reimbursement information, and using an established set of reimbursement criteria and business rules for determining whether an employee/Member is eligible and authorized for a particular reimbursement type (e.g., medical education program expense reimbursement, Cost of Living Allowance Unique reimbursement).

This activity is associated with determining the reimbursement amount due, based upon reimbursement type (e.g., medical education program expense reimbursement, Cost of Living Allowance Unique reimbursement) and established reimbursement criteria.

This activity is associated with making a decision on a reimbursement (e.g., medical education program expense reimbursement, Cost of Living Allowance Unique reimbursement) based on an established set of reimbursement criteria.

This activity is associated with certifying reimbursement expense information, scheduling reimbursement processing, and updating the pay profile with reimbursement information (e.g., reimbursement type, reimbursement amount, and reimbursement date).

This activity is associated with managing the recruitment process for applicants who apply to the Armed Forces. This activity includes prospecting for potential recruitment applicants, conducting applicant interviews, and managing recruitment applicants (i.e., coordinating accession evaluations, formulating applicant mitigation plans, tracking applicants who are awaiting shipping).

This activity is associated with conducting research to identify prospects through advertising, telemarketing, mailings, area canvassing and site visits (e.g., high schools, colleges, shopping centers, and job fairs), reviewing high school Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) scores, and receiving in-office visits from potential recruitment applicants. This also includes collecting initial personal contact information (e.g., name, phone number, and email address)

This activity is associated with conducting the research to identify prospects for recruitment through advertising, telemarketing (e.g., phone calls, postal mailings, and email), site visits (e.g., high schools, colleges, shopping centers, areas of entertainment, and job fairs), reviewing high school Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) scores, and screening prospects that walk-in to the recruitment office.

This activity is associated with establishing a list of potential prospects for recruitment and making contact to collect initial personal information (e.g., name, phone number, and email address).

This activity is associated with interviewing the applicant to determine qualifications, collecting additional personal information (e.g., address, birth certificate, and school transcripts) and medical information necessary to apply to the Armed Services, conducting medical prescreen, and completing accession forms (e.g., DD forms 2807-1, 2058, and 368). This may also include determining if the applicant has prior service and retrieving that information for use in the recruiting process.

This activity is associated with managing administrative operations (e.g., scheduling applicant for accession processing (MEPS) and providing the required accession documents (e.g., applicant's personal data, consent form), formulating applicant mitigation plans for those who failed any part of the accession process, and submitting and processing Service waivers or exception to policy (ETP), which may be as a result of a Congressional inquiry.

This activity is associated with coordinating the applicant package. This includes (but is not limited to) determining processing date, sending the accession notification to appropriate parties (e.g., MEPS Personnel, Recruiting Service Liaison/Guidance Counselor, Test Administrator, MEPS Medical Staff), and arranging transportation to send the applicant to a Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) for evaluation (e.g., Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), Medical).

This activity is associated with formulating a mitigation plan for an applicant that failed any part of the recruiting or accession process. This information may include (but not be limited to) name, goals to be completed, and dates of goal completion.

This activity is associated with performing preliminary screening, performing aptitude qualification, and performing medical qualification.

This activity is associated with capturing applicant personal data, and determining if applicant information is complete or if additional information is needed. This activity is also associated with validating the applicant personal data, such as ensuring that the social security number (SSN) provided is within SSN range.

This activity is associated with requesting additional applicant information; determining if the applicant is eligible to continue accession processing based on information provided; updating the applicant profile with eligibility or ineligibility to continue accession processing information; and forwarding or notifying the appropriate parties (e.g., Services, applicant) of the results from the preliminary screening process.

This activity is associated with verifying positive identification of the applicant, determining if applicant information is complete, requesting additional information if necessary, administering the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test, and updating the applicant profile with the ASVAB test results.

This activity is associated with administering a special purpose test, updating the applicant profile with the special purpose test results, and notifying the Service of the special purpose test results.

This activity is associated with reviewing ASVAB test results, determining if the applicant meets DoD aptitude standards, updating the applicant profile with the aptitude testing results, and notifying appropriate parties (e.g., Service, applicant) of the aptitude test results.

This activity is associated with determining if applicant medical information is complete or additional medical information is needed; conducting the medical prescreen; and documenting the results of the medical prescreen. This activity is also associated with providing medical assistance to the appropriate parties (e.g., Services, applicant).

This activity is associated with verifying positive identification of the applicant, conducting the medical examination (e.g., physical examination and inspection), determining if additional medical information is needed, and requesting the additional medical information from appropriate parties (e.g., applicant, medical service providers).

This activity is associated with determining if the applicant meets medical standards based on the results from the medical examination, determining if a disqualifying medical condition is permanent or temporary, providing the medical examination results to the Service, reviewing the Service medical decision, determining if the Service is accepting the applicant's disqualifying medical condition(s) if any, and updating the applicant profile with the medical examination results and Service medical decision information.

This activity is associated with submitting an accession processing request, validating personal information and requested accession processing schedule, providing the accession processing schedule to the Service, and maintaining the accession processing schedules.

This activity is associated with sending the applicant's personal identifying information and/or fingerprints for an external organization check (e.g., citizenship, background investigation).

This activity is associated with determining entrance eligibility and performing pre-accession processing.

This activity is associated with verifying positive identification of the applicant, determining if the applicant information is complete, conducting the accession interview (i.e., pre-enlistment interview, pre-accession interview), conducting additional disclosure resolution, determining if the applicant is eligible to continue the accession process, and updating the applicant profile with information from the accession interview and eligibility or ineligibility to continue accession process information.

This activity is associated with updating the applicant profile with record of military processing, capturing the applicant's fingerprints, submitting the captured applicant fingerprints for external organization check, generating the record of emergency data and accession agreement, executing the oath, and updating the applicant profile with accession information.

This activity is associated with verifying positive identification of the applicant; determining if accession shipping requirement information is complete; preparing or canceling accession shipping arrangements and accession shipping orders; updating the Member's profile with accession shipping order information; determining if the Member is eligible to ship to assignment based on the external organization check results and notifying the appropriate parties (e.g., Member, Service); coordinating accession meal entitlement; generating the accession shipping packet; sending the accession shipping packet to the appropriate parties (e.g., Member, Service); and performing the accession shipping brief.

This activity is associated with establishing procedures for recruiting and selecting high-quality, productive employees with the appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities in accordance with merit system principles. This activity also includes sourcing and evaluating a candidate, making a decision on the candidate, and hiring a new employee.

This activity is associated with finalizing applicant sources, conducting pre-announcement recruitment, announcing jobs, and receiving applicant documentation.

This activity is associated with determining qualified and eligible candidates, assessing candidates to be referred, applying Federal rules on preferences (priorities), referring candidates for consideration, assessing candidates for selection, making tentative selections, and validating selections.

This activity is associated with making a decision on a position candidate. This may include (but not be limited to) reviewing any referral comments, reviewing a candidate's resume and references, and interviewing a candidate.

This activity is associated with extending job offers, determining terms of offers, responding to job offers, initiating pre-employment processes, certifying compliance with pre-employment requirements, bringing selectees on board (Entrance on Duty), and closing out case files.

This activity is associated with administering an assignment action. This activity also includes determining an assignment action, submitting an assignment action request, performing assignment screening, and providing assignment action decision activities.

This activity is associated with selecting a Member for a valid open personnel requisition or selecting a valid open personnel requisition for a Member who has been identified as requiring a new assignment.

This activity is associated with reviewing open requisitions and any information a Human Resources Specialist will need to propose a Member to fill the requisition.

This activity is associated with identifying potential candidates for a personnel requisition. The evaluation will result in the identification of Members whose qualifications match the personnel requisition criteria and are eligible for an assignment, Members who are in the assignment window, Members with career preferences, and Members who have volunteered for the advertised personnel requisition.

This activity is associated with selecting the best Member out of the eligible candidates. The best Member is eligible and qualified to meet the requirements of the assignment.

This activity is associated with submitting an assignment action for review and approval by an Approval Authority. This activity will also include coordinating the assignment action to capture recommendations and comments.

This activity is associated with capturing the decision outcome for an assignment action to include counseling Member on the assignment action, documenting acceptance or declination of assignment, updating of the personnel/pay record, and documenting any recommendations and or comments from the Approval Authority.

This activity is associated with processing an individual assignment. This activity may include (but not be limited to) generating orders, performing in and out-processing, managing assignment elections.

This activity is associated with recording a Member's arrival at a new permanent or temporary duty station.

This activity is associated with creating and issuing the in-processing checklist. The checklist includes all activities the person must complete before being cleared for new assignment or duty station.

This activity is associated with a Member completing the items on the in-processing checklist.

This activity is associated with receiving and verifying the completion of the in-processing checklist. This activity also includes verifying the assignment order. Upon checklist verification, a notification of the person's arrival is sent to the gaining command, as well as other affected parties.

This activity is associated with a Member reporting to begin out-processing and departure from an assignment or duty station.

This activity is associated with creating and issuing the out-processing checklist. The checklist includes all activities the person must complete before departing to a new assignment or duty station.

This activity is associated with completing the activities listed on the out-processing checklist.

This activity is associated with receiving and verifying the completion of the out-processing checklist. This activity also includes verifying the assignment order. Upon checklist verification, a notification of the person's departure is sent to the gaining command, as well as other affected parties.

This activity is associated with reviewing an assignment order requirement to determine the order type and order action, populating the assignment order to include verification and compliance with Service policies, drafting the order, and forwarding for approval.

This activity is associated with authenticating assignment orders, reviewing the draft order, associating travel authorization information for approval/disapproval, and acknowledging (if required). This activity also includes updating personnel requisition status, Service obligation start date, Service obligation length, order effective date, order type, and order acknowledgement.

This activity is associated with distributing assignment orders to the appropriate parties for action or information. This assignment order information may include (but not be limited to) approved order date and status, order number, order effective date, and order type.

This activity is associated with the administration of an Inter-Service transfer (e.g., a transfer from Army to Marine Corps). This activity may also include (but not be limited to) reviewing an Inter-Service transfer request, making a decision on the transfer, and executing the transfer.

This activity is associated with reviewing an Inter-Service transfer request, along with any waivers, validating the request, making a determination on whether the transfer is in the Service's best interest, and providing a recommendation to concur or nonconcur with the transfer request.

This activity is associated with reviewing an Inter-Service transfer request, along with a recommendation to concur or nonconcur with the transfer, and providing a documented decision on the transfer.

This activity is associated with executing the Inter-Service transfer while ensuring that the Member's continuation of service is preserved. This activity may include (but not be limited to) updating transfer profile information and generating transfer orders, (e.g., transfer package, personnel/pay record, separation orders).

This activity is associated with the administration of an Intra-Service transfer (e.g., a transfer from a Regular component to the Reserves, transfer between Reserve Categories (e.g., Ready Reserve, Standby Reserve, Retired reserve), or transfer from a Regular component to the National Guard). This activity may also include (but not be limited to) reviewing an Intra-Service transfer request, making a decision on the transfer, and executing the transfer.

This activity is associated with reviewing an Intra-Service transfer request, along with any waivers, validating the request, making a determination on whether the transfer is in the Service's best interest, and providing a recommendation to concur or nonconcur with the transfer request.

This activity is associated with reviewing an Intra-Service transfer request, along with a recommendation to concur or nonconcur with the transfer, and providing a documented decision on the transfer.

This activity is associated with executing the Intra-Service transfer while ensuring that the Member's continuation of service is preserved. The appropriate records are updated and submitted to Human Resources (e.g., health records, Personnel/Pay record, separation orders).

This activity is associated with changing a Member's class from Enlisted to Commissioned/Warrant Officer class, or a Commissioned/Warrant Officer to an enlisted class. This activity also includes managing the initial request to become a Commissioned/Warrant Officer, the concurrence or nonconcurrence of the request, and the updating of personnel records once the personnel status has changed.

This activity is associated with determining if a Member meets minimum eligibility requirements to be considered for admission into a commissioning program. This activity is also associated with evaluating any submitted waivers.

This activity is associated with evaluating eligible Members on a competitive basis for admittance to any of the commissioning programs based on individual established criteria, conducting an entrance review board, and providing a decision on the commissioning program.

This activity is associated with updating a Member's profile with information to include (but not be limited to) a review board's decision on a commissioning program admittance request, applicable board title, convening authority, decision date and documenting the Member's elections.

This activity is associated with validating information within a voluntary resignation request to ensure it is complete and correct. This information may include (but not be limited to) Member name, rank, Date of Rank, and Total Active Federal Military Service date.

This activity is associated with making a decision on an Officer's request to voluntarily resign his/her military officer appointment and continue serving in an enlisted or warrant officer pay grade (i.e., reversion). Officers may be permitted to continue their military service in a pay grade other than commissioned officer according to limitations contained within 10 USC.

This activity includes updating a Member's profile to document the voluntary resignation decision, as well as the new rank the Member will be assigned.

This activity is associated with transferring the Members of a Reserve Component unit to or from active duty (e.g., court martial proceedings, training, Commander directed drug testing, deployment). This includes bring a Member to a state of readiness for war or other national emergency. This activity may also include (but not be limited to) validating active duty tour information, conducting active duty tour processing, completing active duty tour processing checklist, and updating Member profile with active duty tour information.

This activity is associated with validating active duty tour requirements (e.g., court martial proceedings, training, national emergency, deployment) to transfer a Member to and from active duty.

This activity is associated with validating active duty tour information (e.g., Member name, rank, activation start date, reason for activation). This activity may include (but not be limited to) determining if Member meets active duty tour requirements and notifying the appropriate parties of any invalid or incomplete information.

This activity may include (but not be limited to) counseling and processing related to training (e.g., certifications, theater specific requirements) legal, HRM information (e.g., record of emergency data), medical, dental, or chaplain services.

This activity is associated with updating a Member's profile with active duty tour information (e.g., medical, dental, training, legal, HRM information (e.g., record of emergency data, duty status, benefit information, time served on active duty)).

This activity is associated with executing a transfer order by the proper authority. This activity may also include (but not be limited to) preparing a transfer order, populating a transfer order, providing a transfer order decision, distributing a transfer order, and transferring eligibility verification to ensure Members are not disqualified from the orders generation process.

This activity is associated with determining reenlistment Candidates, processing reenlistment requests, and executing reenlistment agreements.

This activity is associated with reviewing, identifying, and determining Members eligible for reenlistment who have met the prerequisites for reenlistment or who have requested to reenlist. This activity may also include reviewing the target enlistment career progression pattern (e.g. timing for promotion, reenlistment, and service limits), as well as counseling a Member on the opportunities and incentives to reenlist, reviewing the length of reenlistment agreement, reviewing the Member's eligibility, and documenting the counseling session.

This activity is associated with processing any waivers for criteria needing a waiver by the Member (e.g., physical qualification, medical standards, Conscientious Objector).

This activity is associated with preparing, completing, and submitting a reenlistment request (e.g., DA Form 3340-R, DD Form 4/1). The reenlistment request will also include all recommendations from the chain of command.

This activity is associated with receiving and reviewing the reenlistment request and any waivers included. This may include (but not be limited to) ensuring compliance with all pertinent regulations, verifying if a Member is qualified to reenlist, and assigning reenlistment codes. A reenlistment request includes all supporting documents, as well as waivers and recommendations from the chain of command.

This activity is associated with reviewing reenlistment request and any waivers included to determine if a Member is qualified to reenlist and making reenlistment approval or disapproval decision. This activity also includes reviewing of any reenlistment appeal to the Member's reenlistment request, previously disapproved by his/her Commander, to the Senior Official on the Commander's chain of command and recording the reenlistment appeal approval or disapproval decision.

This activity is associated with notifying a Member of a reenlistment decision, updating a Member's reenlistment eligibility, and documenting the reenlistment decision.

This activity is associated with preparing a reenlistment appeal for a Member whose reenlistment has been disapproved. This may also include counseling or reviewing the reenlistment decision with the Member, providing guidance on what documentations are needed for the appeal, sending an appeal memorandum to the approval authority for reconsideration, and reviewing any reenlistment appeal to the Member's reenlistment request, which was previously disapproved by his/her Commander, to the Senior Official on the Commander's chain of command.

This activity is associated with preparing reenlistment agreements, executing the Oath of Enlistment, obtaining the appropriate signatures for the reenlistment agreements (e.g., Reenlistment/Career Counselor, Commissioned Officer, Member), and updating the Members' profile.

This activity is associated with administering voluntary enlistment extensions, administering involuntary enlistment extensions, and executing enlistment extension agreements.

This activity is associated with preparing, counseling, and submitting a voluntary enlistment extension request by a Member. Voluntary enlistment extension reasons may include (but not be limited to) obtaining obligated Service requirements, retaining medical benefits for a Member or a family member (e.g., pregnancy), completing an operational deployment, or awaiting an opening for a position/assignment, and others.

This activity is associated with validating enlistment extension terms, processing any extension waivers, making a decision on an enlistment extension request or enlistment extension appeal, notifying a Member of the approval or disapproval of the request, counseling a Member on the appeal process, and documenting the enlistment extension request or appeal decision.

This activity is associated with receiving notification to involuntarily extend Member(s) due to a declaration of war, stop loss, or administrative reasons (e.g., medical, UCMJ), and identifying Member(s) for involuntary extension because war has been declared, stop loss has been imposed, or as a result of an administrative action. This activity may also be associated with counseling and notifying a Member whose enlistment is involuntarily extended, which may include counseling on the type of extension, the anticipated duration, and actions/activities that must occur prior to the extension being lifted.

This activity is associated with requesting an exemption from involuntary enlistment extension by a Member (e.g., financial, educational, and compassionate hardships). This activity also includes making a decision on the waiver request by the Career Approval Authority, notifying the Member of the approval or disapproval, and recording the involuntary enlistment extension waiver approval.

This activity is associated with preparing the enlistment extension Service agreement for both Member's and witnessing official's signature, and facilitating the signing of the enlistment extension agreement by both the Member and the witnessing official(s).

This activity is associated with updating the Member's enlistment information. This activity may include (but not be limited to) updating the Member's profile with the enlistment extension request decision; the new Service end date as a result of voluntary extension or involuntary extension due to stop loss, a declaration of war, or administrative hold; or personnel restriction code as a result of involuntary extension for administrative hold.

This activity is associated with identifying, reviewing, and counseling an officer for their involuntary retention. Involuntary Retention can be due to numerous reasons (e.g., stop loss, medical reason). This activity also includes managing the appeals process for those officers requesting involuntary retention appeals, and executing involuntary retention (if necessary).

This activity is associated with receiving notification to involuntarily retain Officer(s) due to a declaration of war, stop loss, or administrative reasons (e.g., medical, UCMJ). This activity may also include counseling the Officer on the type of retention, the anticipated duration, actions/activities that must occur prior to the retention being lifted, waivers, and required supporting documentation for waivers.

This activity is associated with the Officer completing and submitting an Officer Involuntary Retention Waiver request. This activity includes the Officer submitting any supporting documentation to substantiate waiver request.

This activity is associated with reviewing involuntary retention waiver supporting documentation, documenting, and acting upon an Officer's request to have their involuntary retention action waived. This activity also includes notifying the Officer of waiver request outcome.

This activity is associated with updating a Officer's profile with involuntary retention information to include decision to retain or not retain an officer beyond Service obligation. This activity may include (but not be limited to) updating information on involuntary retention timeline, pay, and benefits.

This activity is associated with reviewing, validating special category (e.g. Critical Skills Retention Bonus (CSRB), Assignment or School such as Special Forces School), determining retention bonus eligibility and updating profile with special category retention information.

This activity is associated with receiving a request from a Member on special category retention and validating the Member's special category status for an authorized payment of bonus or incentive for a signed agreement to remain in the Service.

This activity is associated with making and documenting a decision on a special category retention incentive or bonus for a Member. This activity includes reviewing eligibility for and approving incentive/bonus associated with the retention.

This activity is associated with updating an Member's profile with special category retention information and any approved bonus or incentive related to retention. This activity may include (but not be limited to) updating information on special category retention timeline, pay, and benefits.

This activity is associated with establishing the policies, procedures, and guidance for performance management programs.

This activity is associated with developing a results-focused performance management procedures and requirements for planning, monitoring, assessing and rating employee performance and correcting or rewarding such performance as appropriate (e.g., work with employees and unions). This activity also includes specifying the employees covered by the performance management program, addressing the application and operation of written and verbal performance feedback (e.g., other intermittent performance assessments, employee individual development plans, measures against competencies and performance elements and standards), and obtaining required management approval. This activity also includes identifying bonus and award (e.g., monetary, non-monetary) strategies for any given year.

This activity is associated with determining the effectiveness of the program in terms of individual employee performance plan alignment to agency mission and goals, determining the relationship of employee ratings distribution to organizational achievements, determining the use of validated competencies, employee understanding of relationship between expected results and agency goals, and determining the use of balanced and credible measures and ability of supervisors to make meaningful distinctions in performance. This activity may also include This review may be conducted using appropriate evaluation tools such as 360 ratings, supervisor feedback, self-assessment and employee surveys. This review should be conducted periodically, as scheduled by the agency, but not less than every two to three years for established programs and annually for new programs.

This activity is associated with managing the evaluation process to include the identifying of personnel due for performance evaluation and raters that will provide their input to the individual's performance evaluation, tracking and submission of evaluation rendered on personnel to reflect performance, training progress and potential for promotion, explaining performance standards, providing written and verbal performance feedback, and closing out the process by maintaining performance files and updating performance evaluation information.

This activity is associated with identifying and notifying personnel that they are due or overdue for performance evaluation.

This activity is associated with establishing a Member's performance evaluation rating chain by identifying the raters that will provide input to a Member's performance evaluation.

This activity is associated with preparing, publishing and distributing the performance evaluation rating chain to the appropriate parties.

This activity is associated with notifying the appropriate parties including (but not limited to) the Member being evaluated and the Member's rating chain of the upcoming evaluation.

This activity is associated with reviewing the individual's personnel/pay record by the rating chain, assessing the individual's performance, documenting their assessment, and submitting the performance evaluation to the next rater in the individual's rating chain as necessary. This activity may also include reviewing the initial assessment by the next level of rater and documenting their concurrence or non-concurrence to the assessment, plus providing any comments.

This activity is associated with providing performance evaluation information to personnel as well as providing guidance for refuting adverse performance evaluations and appeal options.

This activity is associated with preparing an appeal document, submitting the appeal document for disposition, reviewing the appeal package (package includes the appeal document and any other supporting documentation), approving or disapproving the appeal, conducting an appeal hearing if necessary, and capturing the decision on the appeal. This activity also includes processing evaluation refutals and sending appeal decision notification.

This activity is associated with updating a Member's profile to reflect the revision of a recorded performance evaluation. This may include (but is not limited to) removing erroneous information from the evaluation, correcting evaluation information, amending current evaluation information, or removing the appealed evaluation and requesting a new evaluation.

This activity is associated with submitting the final performance evaluation, distributing the final performance evaluation, and adding the new evaluation to the individual's personnel/pay record. This activity may also include updating the senior rater's profile with the evaluation score given to the individual and the completion date of the performance evaluation process.

This activity is associated with initiating a discussion with an employee to establish a performance plan for the given rating period, finalizing and communicating the performance requirements and proficiency levels where the employee understands the measures against which he or she will be rated, This may include (but not be limited to) specific results expected, agency-wide core competencies, and position specific competencies which Human Resources (HR) will provide consultative support as requested.

This activity is associated with counseling a Member on their performance evaluation plan against which they will be evaluated. This may include (but may not limited to) duty descriptions, expectations, rater and Member input, and what the Member needs to do to achieve stated goals.

This activity is associated with supporting the management of the promotion eligibility, selecting promotions, and executing the promotion for both enlisted and Officer Members. This activity also includes using promotion criteria and a promotion appeal package to make a decision to promote personnel.

This activity is associated with supporting the determination of eligibility for promotion, reviewing promotion eligibility requirements including promotion criteria, and identifying promotion candidates, which may include soliciting recommendations from an Approval Authority for promotion candidates.

This activity is associated with processing a recommendation for a person's promotion. This activity includes completing promotion requirements, which may include a promotion board or special selection board, producing a promotion list, counseling Member on promotion decisions, and determining if Officer meets the criteria for appeal.

This activity is associated with executing a Member's promotion. This activity also includes receiving an approved promotion list, verifying the Member's continued promotion eligibility, preparing and distribution of a promotion order, and removing a promotion order for a Member's promotion declination.

This activity is associated with appealing a promotion decision to include a Member's appeal package (package includes the appeal document and any other supporting documentation), approving or disapproving the appeal, and recommending a special selection board if necessary. This activity also includes notifying the appropriate parties of the appeal decision.

This activity is associated with supporting the demotion of personnel to include receiving notification of a demotion, and updating a Member's personnel/pay record to reflect a demotion. This activity covers all activities associated with the demotion process of enlisted and officer personnel. The supporting activities include: reviewing a demotion decision and executing a demotion.

This activity is associated with receiving and reviewing the decision to demote a Member. Possible sources of this decision may include (but not be limited to) adverse action (e.g., non-judicial punishment, courts-martial, and inefficiency), failure to complete training (e.g., officer candidate training), and voluntary requests (e.g., to fill vacancies).

This activity is associated with executing the demotion decision, updating the Member's personnel/pay record, and notifying the appropriate parties (e.g., Commander, housing authorities, Civilian Personnel Office) of the demotion.

This activity is associated with executing a personnel grade change order. This activity may also include (but not be limited to) preparing a personnel grade change order, providing a personnel grade change order decision, distributing a personnel grade change order, verifying personnel grade change eligibility to ensure that Members are not disqualified from the orders generation process. Personnel grade change orders are authorizing documents (e.g., Army, AF - Orders, Navy - NAVAdmin, and MC - MARAdmin) pertaining to the decision to promote or demote a Member.

This activity is associated with reviewing a personnel grade change order requirement to determine the order type and order action, verifying personnel grade change eligibility to ensure that Members are not disqualified from the orders generation process, populating the personnel grade change order to include verification and compliance with Service policies, drafting the order, and forwarding the order for approval.

This activity is associated with authenticating the orders, which includes reviewing the draft order information for approval/disapproval. This may include (but not be limited to) an update of Service obligation start date, Service obligation length, order effective date, and order type.

This activity is associated with distributing personnel grade change orders to the appropriate parties (e.g., Member, Commander) for action or information. This personnel grade change order information may include (but not be limited to) approved order date and status, order number, order effective date, and order type.

This activity is associated with administering awards, decorations, and special recognition programs to include individual, unit/organizational, and special recognition awards.

This activity is associated with determining the award type being requested.

This activity is associated with reviewing the award qualification and the Member's profile to determine eligibility for the recommended award.

This activity is associated with providing eligibility award criteria, preparing justification documentation for the recommended award based on the Member's profile, and completing the award recommendation request. This activity also includes submitting an award recommendation request, approving the Member's eligibility information, and submitting an award request reclama.

This activity is associated with validating the award recommendation request for completeness and validating the Member's eligibility for the recommended award.

This activity is associated with reviewing the award recommendation request and the Member's award information and eligibility for the recommended Unit Award or Individual Achievement Award. This activity also includes approving or disapproving an award request, documenting the final decision, and notifying the appropriate parties. The award request decisions can be any of the following: Approved for higher award; Approved for recommended award; Approved for lower award; and Disapproved for recommended award.

This activity is associated with reviewing an award recommendation decision and capturing the award specifications in order to execute the award authorization.

This activity is associated with researching and providing new evidence substantial enough to support reconsideration for an award, reviewing the reclama documentation, approving or disapproving an award request based on new evidence provided, and documenting the decision on the reclama.

This activity is associated with issuing the award certificate for the award.

This activity is associated with updating a Member's profile with the award information.

This activity is associated with reviewing an award order requirement to determine the order type and order action, populating the award order to include verification and compliance with DoD policies, drafting the order, and forwarding for approval.

This activity is associated with authenticating award orders and reviewing the draft order information for approval/disapproval. This activity also includes updating the order effective date and the order type.

This activity is associated with aiding commanders in the development, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of physical fitness programs. Included within the program is ensuring that adequate resources (e.g., personnel, equipment, and facilities) are provided, assessing the Member's physical condition and readiness (APFT, etc.), and placing the Member in an alternate fitness program if necessary, documenting the performance of the Member, coordinating medical programs (e.g., physical therapy, rehabilitation, and determination of limitations), providing written and verbal feedback on Member performance and methods for improvement, and updating of a Member's physical aptitude profile.

This activity is associated with developing a physical fitness program and related physical activities consistent with established principles of physical conditioning that enhance fitness and general health essential to combat readiness. This activity may include (but not be limited to) reviewing mission requirements, physical fitness program assessment information, and health care beneficiary care profile information to determine fitness objectives and identify physical fitness program requirements; creating or modifying physical fitness training tasks; and determining physical fitness program resources (e.g., personnel, equipment, facilities, and training aids) necessary to conduct a physical fitness program.

This activity is associated with maintaining a physical fitness program in accordance with established fitness objectives. This activity may include (but not be limited to) educating Members on physical fitness (e.g., exercise, diet and nutrition, tobacco cessation, safety, and stress management), formally evaluating the physical fitness and body fat of Members against the prescribed standards of the respective Service during scheduled physical fitness training, and placing Members who exceed the body fat standards in a Service-directed weight control program.

This activity is associated with assessing the Service physical fitness body fat and health promotion programs and providing an annual physical fitness report.

This activity is associated with recording, adjusting and certifying time worked, and absence information. Time, absence, and labor is used for exception reporting of Military personnel on active duty (i.e., time worked and labor are not recorded and absences (as appropriate) are recorded) and is used for positive reporting and certifying time of reserve personnel serving on inactive duty. Note: For Military personnel, labor hours are used to account for hours worked against a job code, not to determine wages. This activity is also associated with scheduling employees, attesting attendance data, managing usage of leave and paid time off, and certifying employee attendance data.

This activity is associated with documenting electronically or manually time worked and the associated characteristics of the time (e.g., regular, overtime, night differential, time periods associated with Unit Training Assemblies), as well as documenting labor allotted to specific tasks, duty participation, projects, and/or programs.

This activity is associated with certifying and/or re-certifying (for adjustments) of time, absence, and labor information by the certifying authority, enabling payroll labor costs to be distributed and charged to appropriate cost centers, and ensuring that leave and retirement point information are updated.

This activity is associated with adjusting time, absence, and labor information based on errors or modifications of proposed events (e.g., canceling leave that has yet to be executed). These adjustments can be for future leave periods already documented and current or past periods of time.

This activity is associated with identifying and determining casualty classification and categories (i.e., type, and status). This activity also includes producing casualty reports, conducting investigations to resolve casualty status, (e.g., deceased, missing, and injured), providing support (e.g. request for Line of Duty determination and coordinate casualty search and recovery teams) for casualty processes, and making a decision on the final casualty category.

This activity is associated with the initial review and categorization (e.g., deceased, missing, and injured) of a casualty incident, creating a casualty report (initial and supplemental) to capture findings (e.g., casualty status, casualty type, and casualty classification), notifying the next-of-kin (NOK), requesting casualty assistance, and identification of casualty information which may be released to the media and NOK.

This activity is associated with reviewing the casualty report for personnel categorized as deceased, missing (e.g., missing in action (MIA), captured, beleaguered, and besieged), wounded, ill or injured (i.e., seriously wounded, ill/injured, very seriously wounded, ill/injured), and investigating facts related to the casualty incident to rule out an unauthorized absence. This activity also includes creating a report which outlines findings of the investigation, duty status, circumstances surrounding the casualty, and casualty tracking information, and creating a report which outlines findings of the investigation and duty status.

This activity is associated with determining if casualty remains have been recovered, coordinating efforts for search and recovery teams, providing disposition of remains and shipping of personal effects, coordinating personnel travel for wounded, ill, or injured Members out of a combat zone, and identifying casualty information which may be released to the media and next of kin (NOK).

This activity is associated with performing the close out of the casualty process by reviewing the casualty investigation findings in order to produce a final casualty report and determine whether a casualty incident requires further review and investigation. The final casualty report of the casualty incident may include (but not be limited to) providing casualty status on missing personnel and identification of casualty information which may be released to the media and next of kin (NOK).

This activity is associated with counseling and assessing the casualty assistance needs of Department of Defense (DoD) personnel and their families. These counseling actions may, in some cases, occur over an extended period of time depending on the type of casualty (i.e., casualty cases categorized as ill/injured or missing may require longer and more frequent periods of counseling compared to those of death casualty cases).

This activity is associated with advising the Member or next of kin on available programs and benefits related to casualty assistance, documenting their selections from available programs and services, and directing them to the appropriate parties for further assistance. These programs and benefits may be sponsored by sources both internal and external to DoD (e.g., Service-sponsored programs through Family Support, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)-sponsored programs and benefits, and, in the event of death casualty, family-selected funeral products/service providers).

This activity is associated with coordinating the delivery of casualty assistance services (e.g., invitational travel orders, items pertaining to interment, medical counseling and treatment) and evaluating whether the goals of the casualty assistance program are being achieved.

This activity is associated with managing the Line of Duty (LoD) determination process to include validating LoD incident, investigating LoD incident, making LoD decisions, and managing LoD appeal process.

This activity is associated with gathering and investigating facts related to the Line of Duty (LoD) incident. This may include (but not be limited to) validating the incident, reviewing LoD documentation (e.g., LoD incident information, LoD legal information, casualty information, and adverse action information) for completeness, verifying information (e.g., initial notifications, reports, forms), documenting LoD investigation findings, and providing LoD investigation findings to support in making a LoD decision.

This activity is associated with making a Line of Duty (LoD) decision (e.g., interim and final) to determine whether an incident occurred in the LoD or not in the LoD. This activity also includes reviewing LoD documentation (e.g. LoD incident information, LoD recommendations, casualty information, and adverse action information) for completeness, determining whether a LoD incident requires further legal review and/or requires an investigation, and documenting the LoD decision.

This activity is associated with providing Line of Duty (LoD) appeal process counseling. This may include (but not be limited to) reviewing the LoD decision, explaining the LoD decision, and advising on LoD appeal procedures.

This activity is associated with providing a Line of Duty (LoD) appeal decision. This may include (but not be limited to) making a decision on an appeal request, documenting the appeal decision, and sending notification of the appeal decision to the appropriate parties (e.g., Member, Casualty Area Commander, family member).

This activity is associated with managing organization controlled absences and managing unauthorized absences.

This activity is associated with reviewing, determining eligibility, and making a decision regarding an organization controlled absence request (e.g., pass and liberty, administrative absence, professional meetings, transition assistance programs, sporting events, and educational leave of absence). This activity also includes counseling the Member as needed on the decision made regarding the request.

This activity is associated with reviewing all information related to a request for an organization controlled absence and determining a Member's eligibility for the requested organization controlled absence as needed.

This activity is associated with making a decision on an organization controlled absence request, notifying the appropriate parties of the decision made, and updating the Time, Absence, and Labor profile with the decision information. This process may also include counseling the Member on absence status.

This activity is associated with categorizing and resolving the status of Members who are absent without authorization. Categories of unauthorized absence may include (but not be limited to) Unauthorized Absence (UA) and Deserter.