List of Business Capabilities

Name	Description
Above Surface (PK)	The ability to defeat kinetically delivered attacks in air and space.
Above Surface (PN)	The ability to defeat non-kinetically delivered attacks in air and space.
Account for Personnel	This capability is associated with accounting for time, absence, and labor, performing leave and absence administration, and managing personnel casualty and Line of Duty (LoD) determination process.
Accounting and Finance	The ability to supervise, direct, advise, formulate policy, and account for the execution of DOD resources, including preparation of auditable financial statements. The ability to direct, supervise, and operate integrated DOD accounting and financial management systems and manage and execute financial operations that provide common DOD support in the areas of finance (payroll, commercial pay, etc), and accounting.
Acquisition	The ability to organize and execute the activities necessary to provide materiel for DOD operations.
Activate / Inactivate	The ability to return an item from preservation, storage, or inactive status to an active, serviceable status by means of removal from storage and containers, stripping, inspection, servicing, testing and repair, or replacement of components, assemblies, or subassemblies as required.
Administer Grievance Process	This capability is associated with initiating, processing, resolving and documenting a formal complaint related to co-worker/peer or management actions in regard to an Employee or Member (e.g., administrative grievances, sexual harassment complaints and Labor / Union grievances). This capability may include (but not be limited to) determining the type of grievance, and providing a resolution on the grievance. This capability is also associated with requesting accommodation, determining accommodation needs, and putting reasonable accommodations into place.
Administer Legal Personnel Programs	This capability is associated with managing resolution facilitation and the administration of adverse action (judicial and non-judicial) for persons within Department of Defense's (DoD) legal oversight. Resolution facilitation refers to those person-related capabilities outside of a court of law such as mediation and arbitration that may be used in an attempt to settle a dispute between two or more parties (government agency, citizen, corporation). Adverse actions can be based upon misconduct, unacceptable performance or both that can lead to legal actions and non-disciplinary actions such as medical inability to report for duty, separation, or furlough that can lead to administrative actions.
Advanced Technology	The ability to produce innovative and unique components and prototypes that can be integrated into defense systems for field experiments and/or tests in a simulated "or operational" environment "to assess military utility" prior to full development.
Advice and External Matters	The ability to provide advice on and manage all matters and services (domestic and international) performed within, or involving DOD to establish and oversee DOD policies and standards on matters including but not limited to Legal, Legislative, and the Media.
Advisory and Compliance	The ability to provide advice, counsel, review, inspection and evaluation of policies, standards, systems, procedures and internal controls to ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements and to propose changes to existing requirements.
Air (EKM)	The ability to kinetically engage moving targets in the region beginning at the upper boundary of the land or water and extending upward to the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs).
Air (ENKM)	The ability to non-kinetically engage moving targets in the region beginning at the upper boundary of the land or water and extending upward to the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs).
Air (MTE)	The ability to maneuver to engage in the region beginning at the upper boundary of the land or water and extending upward to the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs).
Air (MTI)	The ability to maneuver to insert in the region beginning at the upper boundary of the land or water and extending upward to the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs).
Air (MTInfl)	The ability to maneuver to influence in the region beginning at the upper boundary of the land or water and extending upward to the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs).
Air (MTS)	The ability to secure the region beginning at the upper boundary of the land or water and extending upward to the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs).
Airfield Management	The ability to provide airfield services including weather, air traffic control, terminal/special use airspace management, airfield and flight management, cargo and passenger services, and transient aircraft support.
Allocation	The ability to provide forces and resources, without transferring combatant command authority, to another combatant commander for execution planning or actual execution.
Analysis, Prediction and Production	The ability to integrate, evaluate, interpret, and predict knowledge and information from available sources to develop intelligence and forecast the future state to enable situational awareness and provide actionable information.
Analyze Courses of Action	The ability to evaluate potential solutions to determine likelihood of success.
Analyze Events	The ability to diagnose anomalous activities and behavior by determining cause, characterizing and assessing impact.
Analyze Information	The ability to methodically examine information by decomposing it into its constituent parts and studying their interrelations in a given context.
Analyze Problem	The ability to review and examine all available information to determine necessary actions.
Analyze Situation	The ability to evaluate synthesized situational awareness, including intelligence assessments, environmental condition, and force assessments to prepare strategies or plans.
Applied	The ability to translate promising basic research into solutions for broadly defined military needs, including studies, investigations, and non-system specific technology efforts, including design, development, and improvements of prototypes and new processes to meet general mission area requirements.
Apply Situational Understanding	The ability to use synthesized information and awareness applicable to a given situation or environment to further understand the problem.
Apportionment	The ability to designate forces and resources to a combatant commander for contingency planning.
Area (EKFS)	The ability to kinetically engage a target consisting of a region rather than a single point. (JP 1-02) This includes circular, linear, and irregular shaped targets.
Area (EKMS)	The ability to kinetically engage a large moving target within a region.
Area (EKSS)	The ability to kinetically engage a target consisting of a region rather than a single point. (JP 1-02) This includes circular, linear, and irregular shaped targets.
Area (ENKFS)	The ability to non-kinetically engage a target consisting of a region rather than a single point. (JP 1-02) This includes circular, linear, and irregular shaped targets.
Area (ENKMS)	The ability to non-kinetically engage a moving target consisting of a region rather than a single point. (JP 1-02) This includes circular, linear, and irregular shaped targets.
Area (ENKSS)	The ability to non-kinetically engage a target consisting of a region rather than a single point. (JP 1-02) This includes circular, linear, and irregular shaped targets.
Assess Achievement of Objectives	The ability to determine when the desired end-state has been reached.
Assess Available Capabilities	The ability to determine the adequacy and readiness of the current resources and the means to accomplish a defined objective.
Assess Capabilities	The ability to determine existing and future functional competencies.
Assess Compliance with Guidance	The ability to determine if performance adheres to established parameters and expectations.
Assess Effects	The ability to analyze, track, and measure the results of actions taken.
Assess Employment of Forces	The ability to determine if forces have been applied to assigned objectives.
Assess Global Requirements, Resources, Capabilities and Risks	The ability to assess in real-time global requirements/demands against available resources and capabilities, make recommendations where supplies should be positioned to include WRM and prepositioned assets, and to mitigate risks.
Assess Guidance	The ability to determine if direction is achieving the desired end-state and is appropriate for the situation.
Assess Manner of Employment	The ability to determine if force employment has followed established guidance.
Assign Roles and Responsibilities	The ability to assign and refine appropriate decision authorities and accountability between leaders and subordinates.
Assignment	The ability to place forces and resources under the combatant command authority of a combatant commander IAW Title 10 USC Section 162.
Assure Access	The ability to identify and authenticate individuals, groups, and entities and provide authorization to services and information.
Assure Transfer	The ability to exchange authentic data, information, and knowledge between authorized individuals, groups, and entities.
Audit, Inspection and Investigation	The ability to understand and monitor matters relating to effective operations of DOD with particular regard to internal review activities.
Audits	The ability to analyze the control of DoD resources to ensure compliance and to provide recommendations for improvement.
BA Data Access	The ability to provide authorized customer access to data and products, leveraging both Net-Centric computing infrastructure and intelligence-controlled systems.
BA Data Dissemination and Relay	The ability to present, distribute, or make available intelligence, information and environmental content and products that enable understanding of the operational/physical environment to military and national decision-makers.
BA Data Transmission	The ability to send collected data directly to processing, exploitation analysis, production and visualization systems, leveraging both Net-Centric information transport and intelligence-controlled systems.
Base and Installations Support	The ability to provide enduring bases and installations with the assets, programs, and services necessary to support US military forces.
Base Physical Security	The ability to provide Physical Security operations and support functions to safeguard personnel, prevent unauthorized access to equipment, installations/facilities, material and documents, and to safeguard them against espionage, sabotage, damage and theft.
Base Support Vehicles and Equipment	The ability to manage the procurement, dispatch, operation, maintenance, and disposal of all non-tactical, government-owned and -controlled vehicles and transportation related equipment used for the day-to-day support of installation operations.
Basic	The ability to conduct a systematic study directed toward the discovery of knowledge or understanding of the fundamental aspects of phenomena and of observable facts without specific applications.
Battlespace Awareness	The ability to understand dispositions and intentions as well as the characteristics and conditions of the operational environment that bear on national and military decision-making by leveraging all sources of information to include Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, Meteorological, and Oceanographic.
Beyond Line of Sight	The ability to exchange data or information via electromagnetic spectrum beyond line of sight.
Billeting	The ability to provide lodging to steady state, surge and ebb populations.
Biological (ML)	The ability to minimize the effects of biological attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Biological (MN)	The ability to minimize the effects of biological attacks which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Biometrics Data (HBC)	The ability to gather information on an individual based on measurable anatomical, physiological, and behavioral characteristics.
Budgetary Resource Management	The ability to develop, review, evaluate, and support financial forecasts, plans, programs and budgets and to integrate them with appropriate performance indicators to achieve effective business operations and program goals. This capability also includes the ability to control and distribute funds based on appropriation and authorization laws.
Build the Capabilities and Capacities of Partners and Institutions	The ability to assist domestic and foreign partners and institutions with the development of their capabilities and capacities -- for mutual benefit -- to address U.S. national or shared global security interests.
Building Partnerships	The ability to interact with partner, competitor or adversary leaders, security institutions, or relevant populations by developing and presenting information and conducting activities to affect their perceptions, will, behavior, and capabilities in order to build effective, legitimate, interoperable, and self-sustaining strategic partners.
Bulk Water (non-potable)	The ability to provide and distribute fresh, brackish, or seawater from storage to point of use that has not been treated or disinfected and has not been approved for human consumption.
Bulk Water (potable)	The ability to produce, inspect, and distribute bulk potable water from storage to point of use.
Calibrate	The ability to compare an instrument with an unverified accuracy to an instrument of known or greater accuracy to detect and correct any discrepancy in the accuracy of the unverified instrument.
Capabilities Development	The ability to translate, validate and prioritize capability and capacity requirements or gaps and acceptable areas to increase risk to support DOD strategy.
Capability Demonstration	The ability to evaluate integrated technologies in a realistic operating environment to assess performance or cost reduction potential of advanced technology.
Capability Experimentation	The ability to arbitrate performance evaluation between competing models or prototypes to optimize DoD capabilities.
Casualty Assistance	The ability to provide authorized and necessary support services to eligible family members of deceased, Duty Status - Whereabouts Unknown (DUSTWUN), Excused Absence - Whereabouts Unknown (EAWUN), missing, ill, or injured personnel.
Casualty Management	The ability to provide a continuum of timely, responsive medical and surgical care that incorporates the latest technologies and advancements in medical science. This care begins with the first responder and proceeds through forward/resuscitative care and theater hospitalization in the joint area of operations. Health Service Delivery addresses definitive care at a CONUS-based rehabilitative facility.
Chemical (ML)	The ability to minimize the effects of chemical attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Chemical (MN)	The ability to minimize the effects of chemical attacks which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Chemical / Biological Materials (MSC)	The ability to gather information from chemical and biological agents, objects and activities.
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (EKFSP)	The ability to kinetically engage targets which include hazardous materials and capabilities associated with chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons production or storage.
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (EKFU)	The ability to kinetically engage underground targets that include hazardous materials and capabilities associated with chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons production or storage.
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (EKMSP)	The ability to kinetically engage targets that are moving at the time of decision to engage and which include hazardous materials and capabilities associated with chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons production or storage.
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (EKMU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets that are moving at the time of decision to engage and which include hazardous materials and capabilities associated with chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons production or storage.
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (EKSSP)	The ability to kinetically engage targets which include hazardous materials and capabilities associated with chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons production or storage.
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (EKSU)	The ability to kinetically engage underground targets that include hazardous materials and capabilities associated with chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons production or storage.
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (ENK)	The ability to non-kinetically engage targets which include hazardous materials and capabilities associated with chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons production or storage.
Civilian Education	The ability to develop knowledge at the post-secondary academic level to enhance the DoD's mission.
Clinical Preventive Medicine	The ability to provide effective methods to reduce overall disease burden in a population and potentially reduce non-battle injuries for warfighters. Preventive medicine includes preventive medical and dental services, occupational health services, and public health laboratory services. Commonly used approaches are vaccination, counseling to modify high-risk behaviors, screening, and proactive treatments for chronic disease processes to establish early control and medical management.
Collaboration	The ability to conduct synchronous and asynchronous communications and interaction across the enterprise, including voice, data, video, and manipulated visual representation.
Collection	The ability to gather data and obtain required information to satisfy information needs.
Combat Engineering	The ability to employ engineering capabilities and activities that support the maneuver of land combat forces and that require close support to those forces. Combat engineering consists of three types of capabilities and activities: mobility, countermobility, and survivability. (JP 3-34)
Command and Control	The ability to exercise authority and direction by a properly designated commander or decision maker over assigned and attached forces and resources in the accomplishment of the mission.
Common Identity Assurance Services	The ability to establish and deploy common identity assurance services across the enterprise.
Communicate	The ability to understand, engage, develop and present information to domestic partner audiences to improve understanding; and, to foreign partner audiences to create, strengthen, or preserve conditions favorable for the advancement of United States Government interests, policies, and objectives through the use of coordinated programs, plans, themes, messages, and products synchronized with the actions of all instruments of national power.
Communicate Intent and Guidance	The ability to promulgate a concise expression of the operational purpose, assessment of acceptable operational risk, and guidance to achieve the desired end state.
Communication Bridge	The ability to interface two or more common communications media or networks.
Communication Gateway	The ability to interface two or more disparate communications media or networks.
Communications (ENKES)	The ability to disrupt, deny, degrade or destroy an adversary's use of signals technology.
Communications (SC)	The ability to intercept and derive information from voice and data communications.
Community Support	The ability to sustain a military member and family support platform encompassing tuition assistance, children's education, spouse training and employment, child and youth services, morale welfare and recreation, and other programs that underwrite support to military members and their families.
Compensation	The ability to develop, implement and oversee policies that maintain fair and competitive pay, and entitlement systems.
Compile Information	The ability to gather information from available sources (e.g. friendly, adversary, neutral, environmental, sociological).
Computer Network Attack	The ability to disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy information resident in information technology infrastructures, or the information technology infrastructure itself. (derived from CM-0363-08 and JP 1-02)
Computer Network Defense	The ability to employ operational defensive measures to counter unauthorized activity within the Department of Defense information systems and information technology infrastructure.
Computing Services	The ability to process data and provide physical and virtual access to hosted information and data centers across the enterprise based on established data standards.
Concepts	The ability to provide a notion or statement of an idea ? an expression of how something might be done. (Derived from CJCSI 3010.02B)
Conduct Program Management	This capability exercises centralized authority and responsibility for planning, organizing, staffing, controlling and leading the combined efforts of participating/assigned civilian and military personnel organizations for the management of specific defense acquisition or programs throughout the system life cycle.
Contagious (MLB)	The ability to minimize the effects of contagious biological attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Contagious (MNB)	The ability to minimize the effects of contagious biological attacks which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Content Delivery	The ability to accelerate delivery and improve reliability of enterprise content and services, by optimizing the location and routing of information.
Content Discovery	The ability to identify, search for, or locate relevant information.
Contingency Base Feeding	The ability to receive, store, prepare, and serve nutritious meals, authorized enhancements, and supplements in a sanitary dining facility at non-enduring locations or afloat, based on ration cycle and mix, with the ability to project meals to disbursed populations.
Contingency Base Services	The ability to provide shelter, billeting, waste management and common user life support management in an a contingency environment.
Contract Support Integration	The ability to synchronize and integrate contract support being executed in a designated operational area in support of the Joint Force.
Contractor Management	The ability to manage and maintain visibility of associated contractor personnel providing support to the Joint Force in a designated operational area.
Core Enterprise Services	The ability to provide awareness of, access to and delivery of information on the GIG via a small set of CIO mandated services.
Corporate Management and Support	The ability to provide strategic senior level, enterprise-wide leadership, direction, coordination, and oversight through a chief management officer function.
Cost Management	Ability to accumulate, classify, measure, analyze, interpret and report cost and other financial information useful to internal and external decision makers reviewing the execution of an organization?s program or project resources to ensure they are effectively being used to meet objectives.
Counter Intelligence (CI)	The ability to gather information and conduct activities to identify, exploit, or protect against threats posed by foreign governments and organizations, foreign persons, or international terrorists.
Cultivate Coordination with Partner Organizations	The ability to facilitate and sustain organizational synergy with military and civilian counterparts.
Cultivate Relations with Mission Partners	The ability to facilitate professional and personal relationships with military and civilian counterparts.
Cyber Management	The ability to assure network support for all DOD missions through the synchronization, deconfliction, coordination, and awareness of all elements of computer network operations.
Cyber Network (SC)	The ability to gather data from automated information systems, networks, and data bases.
Cyberspace (ENK)	The ability to conduct non-kinetic engagements to attack and defend the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures and the data within them.
Cyberspace (MTE)	The ability to maneuver to engage within the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures and the data within them.
Cyberspace (MTI)	The ability to maneuver to insert within the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures and the data within them.
Cyberspace (MTInfl)	The ability to maneuver to influence within the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures and the data within them.
Cyberspace (MTS)	The ability to maneuver to secure within the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures and the data within them.
Data Transformation (PE)	The ability to select, focus, simplify, tag and transform overtly or covertly collected data into human or machine interpretable form for further analysis or other action.
Decide	The ability to select a course of action informed and influenced by the understanding of the environment or a given situation.
Deep Water (EKFU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at depths greater than 200 feet.
Deep Water (EKMU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at depths greater than 200 feet.
Deep Water (EKSU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at depths greater than 200 feet.
Defeat Explosive Hazards	The ability to locate and neutralize the full range of enemy and friendly explosive hazards that may impede routine operations, decrease mobility or present a threat to force protection. It includes the capability to locate, avoid, and neutralize hazards in concert with mounted or dismounted maneuver (breach) or as part of tactical/operational movement (route clearance).
Define and Prioritize Requirements (P&D)	The ability to translate national through tactical objectives and needs into specific information and operational requirements.
Define Associated Community	The ability to identify relevant stakeholders.
Define Knowledge Structure	The ability to organize information into cogent, actionable context.
Define Structure	The ability to organize forces to best accomplish the mission.
Define the Health Benefit	The ability to identify and plan for specific healthcare needs associated with a population of eligible beneficiaries and continuously measure, monitor, and positively influence health and wellness through evidenced-based preventive and interventional healthcare services.
Deliver and Adjust Influential Content	The ability to use selected senders and media to deliver themes, messages, information, and indicators to an adversary or competitor to respond in a manner that is in the interest of U.S. Government goals and objectives plans and, if required, recommend modification to theme, message, senders or medium.
Deliver and Adjust Information	The ability to understand the attitudes, opinions grievances, and concerns of partners and use selected senders and media to deliver themes, messages, and objective information in accordance with U.S. Government goals and objectives, and, if required, modify to themes, messages, senders or medium.
Deliver and Adjust Persuasive Content	The ability to use selected senders and media to deliver themes and messages in accordance with U.S. government goals objectives, plans and, if required, recommend modification to theme, message, senders or medium.
Deliver Non-Unit-Related Cargo	The ability to move non-unit-related cargo (supplies and equipment) between point of origin and point of need.
Deliver Non-Unit-Related Personnel	The ability to deliver and retrograde non-unit-related personnel between point of origin and point of need.
Deliver Property and Forces	Ability to satisfy the needs of internal and external customers, as evidenced by orders (i.e. requisitions, purchase orders or contracts), by issuing or transporting forces, inventory and related materials or capital equipment.
Deny Movement and Maneuver	The ability to enable the Joint Force Commander to quickly dominate terrain and modify the physical environment in order to isolate forces, deny key terrain and impede, deny or canalize movement via lethal and non-lethal means.
Deployable Scalable and Modular Networks	The ability to design, assemble, transport, and establish mission-scaled networks from adaptable components network modules.
Deployment and Distribution	The ability to plan, coordinate, synchronize, and execute force movement and sustainment tasks in support of military operations. Deployment and distribution includes the ability to strategically and operationally move forces and sustainment to the point of need and operate the Joint Deployment and Distribution Enterprise. (JL(D) JIC pg 5 and pages 14-21)
Depot Maintenance	The ability to perform materiel maintenance requiring major overhaul, or a complete rebuilding of parts, assemblies, subassemblies, and end items to include the manufacture of parts, modifications, testing, and reclamation as required, provide stocks of serviceable equipment, and support field maintenance by providing technical assistance or performing maintenance tasks beyond their responsibility.
Detainee Medical Care	The ability to provide medical care and safeguard the health of detained personnel in compliance with the provisions of the Geneva Convention, international law and our nations stance on human rights.
Detect Events	The ability to identify anomalous activities and behavior.
Determine End State	The ability to unambiguously define a set of desired final objective conditions.
Determine Opportunities	The ability to assess existing and potential circumstances leading to success.
Determine Partner Requirements	The ability to assess, identify, understand and prioritize the specific type and magnitude of partner capability and capacity needed to address shared goals.
Determine Utility of Foreign Security-Related Capabilities	The ability to understand and evaluate the actions and incentives necessary to access the capabilities of foreign governments and institutions.
Determine Vulnerabilities	The ability to assess existing and potential weakness.
Develop and Maintain Facilities	The ability to develop, rehabilitate, and maintain bases and installations by providing design, real estate, construction and environmental services which extend through final disposition.
Develop Assumptions	The ability to analyze and build suppositions on the current situation or a presupposition on the future course of events, in the absence of positive proof. (Derived from JP 1-02)
Develop Cognitive Programs and Products	The ability to develop credible, U.S. Government interagency-synchronized themes and messages, with associated metrics, which will persuade foreign audiences to accept and support the strategies, policies, and operations of the U.S. Government and its partners.
Develop Courses of Action	The ability to build and refine sequences of activities to achieve a desired outcome or effect.
Develop Influential Programs and Products	The ability to develop U.S. Government interagency synchronized themes, messages, information, indicators, with associated metrics, to cause adversary and competitor audiences to react in a manner that is favorable to U.S. interests.
Develop Knowledge and Situational Awareness	The ability to apply context, experience, and intuition to data and information to derive meaning and value. (Derived from NCE JFC)
Develop Objective Information	The ability to develop U.S. Government interagency synchronized themes and messages, and associated metrics, for presentation, to clarify, reinforce, or improve domestic or foreign audience's understanding of the strategies, policies, and operations of the U.S. Government and its partners.
Develop Objectives	The ability to clearly define decisive and obtainable goals towards which every operation should be directed in accomplishment of the mission. (Derived from JP 5-0)
Develop Options	The ability to create a potential or series of potential activities or actions to achieve the assigned objectives.
Develop Partnership Agreements	The ability to negotiate and establish partnership agreements based on prioritized relationships, containing measurable objectives, with domestic and foreign institutions, organizations, and governments.
Develop Strategies (P&D)	The ability to determine the best approach to collect, process, exploit, analyze, and disseminate data and information to address requirements and predict outcomes.
Develop Strategy	The ability to create a framework that synchronizes and integrates the resources available to achieve a desired outcome or effect.
Developmental Engineering	The ability to apply scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge to design and build DoD weapons and other systems.
Developmental Testing	The ability to test of product elements, manufacturing or support processes during development in order to verify technical progress, design risks, contract technical performance or readiness for initial operational testing.
Diagnosis	The ability to identify a medical or dental condition, disease, or injury. Diagnostic procedures are complimentary to relevant history, signs and symptoms, and results of physical examination.
Direct	The ability to employ resources to achieve an objective.
Directed Energy (ML)	The ability to minimize the effects of directed energy attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Directed Energy (MN)	The ability to minimize the effects of directed energy attacks which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Directory Services	The ability to provide, operate, and maintain a global directory of users, to include directory synchronization with other lower-level systems and information integrity.
Disability Evaluation	The ability to provide comprehensive assessment of a Service member's fitness for continued service and recommend a disability disposition or return to duty recommendation.
Disposal of Installation Assets	The ability to conduct demolition and disposal activities resulting in the removal of installation assets from the asset inventory by any means, with consideration of the impact to local communities.
Dispose or Return Property and Materiel	Ability to send goods and equipment back into the supply chain when they are received in error, in excess of required quantities, or defective, obsolete, damaged, or worn until rendered no longer useful in their current condition. This capability also includes the disposal of real property by demolition or transfer.
Disseminate Information	The ability to present the refined information to enable comprehension.
Distill Information	The ability to filter and refine the discovery and selection of information.
Distributed Computing	The ability to provide a virtual computing capability to an end user or application through federation of distributed, location-independent computing resources.
Doctrine	The ability to provide fundamental principles that guide the employment of US military forces in coordinated action toward a common objective and serves to make US policy and strategy effective in the application of US military power. (Developed from CJCSI 3170.01F/CJCSI 5120.02)
Document Problem Elements	The ability to produce a description of the situation based on the analysis of the guidance and synthesized information.
Documents & Media (HBC)	The ability to obtain information from acquired, seized or open-sourced documents and electronic media.
Economic Adjustment Activities	The ability to provide and manage activities to assist communities impacted by changes in the Defense footprint caused by base closures, realignments, expansions, or significant changes in Defense industry employment. Includes assessing economic hardships, evaluating alternatives for local recovery, identifying resource requirements, and assisting in creating action plans.
Educating	The ability to convey general bodies of knowledge and develop habits of mind applicable to a broad spectrum of endeavors to foster breadth of view, diverse perspectives, critical analysis, and abstract reasoning. (Derived from CJCSI 1800.01C)
Electromagnetic Pulse (ML)	The ability to minimize the effects of electromagnetic pulse attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Electromagnetic Pulse (MN)	The ability to minimize the effects of electromagnetic pulse attacks which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Electromagnetic Spectrum (ENK)	The ability to conduct non-kinetic engagements against an adversary's use of the range of electromagnetic radiation.
Electromagnetic Spectrum (MN)	The ability to minimize the effects of electromagnetic spectrum attacks which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Electronic Emissions (SC)	The ability to intercept and derive information from non-communication-related emitter transmissions.
Electro-Optical (IC)	The ability to obtain a visual presentation of any natural or man-made feature, object, or activity derived from the ultraviolet through far infrared electromagnetic spectrum.
Electro-Optical (MSC)	The ability to collect information on phenomena that emit, absorb, or reflect electromagnetic energy in the ultraviolet through infrared spectrum.
Emergency Services	The ability to protect and rescue people, facilities, aircrews, aircraft and other assets from loss due to accident or disaster.
End User Services	The ability to provide client computing devices and management of those devices. Provide mobile voice, data and video devices. Management of those devices, to include pagers, cell phones, wireless/cellular enabled Personal Data Assistants (PDAs), or other end user devices used by individuals to access information, applications and services.
Engage Partners	The ability to integrate and synchronize interaction with selected domestic and foreign institutions, countries, or populations under available identified and aligned authorities and resources authorities to facilitate development of formal or informal relationships.
Engagement	The ability to use kinetic and non-kinetic means in all environments to generate the desired lethal and/or non-lethal effects from all domains and the information environment.
Engineering	The ability to execute and integrate combat, general, and geospatial engineering to meet national and JFC requirements to assure mobility, provide infrastructure to position, project, protect, and sustain the joint force, and enhance visualization of the operational area, across the full spectrum of military operations.
Enhance Mobility	The ability to enable both mounted and dismounted movement and maneuver where and when desired without interruption or delay through complex terrain (ranging from littoral to mountainous areas), built up areas (cities, towns, and villages to include subterranean structures), and complex manmade and natural obstacles to achieve the commander's intent without loss of speed or flexibility.
Enhance Partner Capabilities and Capacities	The ability to assess and facilitate the development of partner capabilities and capacities in a manner that takes into account the partner's ability to sustain them and advances partnership goals and mutual interests.
Enhance Survivability	The ability to provide coordinated and synchronized engineer support (including camouflage techniques) and construction to increase force protection and conserve the Joint Force's fighting capabilities and freedom of action.
Enhanced Language, Regional Expertise and Culture (LREC)	The ability to understand the history, language, cultures, beliefs, social structures, politics, and economics of allies, partners, and foreign population to effectively execute missions across the spectrum of military operations.
Enterprise Application Software	The ability to provide productivity enhancement software made available to all users.
Enterprise Architecture	The ability to provide oversight and policy guidance to ensure compliance with standards for developing, maintaining, and implementing sound, integrated and interoperable architectures across the Department.
Enterprise Energy Information Management	The Enterprise Energy Information Management (EEIM) capability informs decision-making through the systematic collection, integration and analysis of facility energy use, production and project data. This capability is comprised of common business language and integrated facility management practices that provide the foundation for a comprehensive DoD energy information capability. This information supports business analytics across the DoD enterprise while streamlining external reporting. EEIM transforms data into actionable and integrated information for energy managers to perform meaningful trend analyses, benchmarking of assets, identification of opportunities for improvement, and tracking of progress against both internal and external performance goals.
Enterprise Messaging	The ability to perform electronic messaging between users and organizational entities across the enterprise, including providing customer support.
Enterprise Services	The ability to provide to all authorized users awareness of and access to all DoD information and DoD-wide information services.
Enterprise-Wide Assessment	The ability to continually monitor the environment, examine progress towards and achievement of DOD strategic goals and priorities, and inform future strategy development or implement necessary corrective actions to stay on course.
Environmental Liabilities Identification and Valuation	Directly supporting the DoD Enterprise Priority of Financial Visibility as well as Real Property Accountability, and especially given their significance (estimated at over $64B), DoD requires the ability to prepare auditable and complete environmental liability estimates. This includes data capture; inventory recording, integration with core financial systems and linkage to real property assets where appropriate.
Establish and Maintain Unity of Effort with Mission Partners	The ability to foster and maintain cooperative relations with mission partners.
Establish Collaboration Policies	The ability to promulgate authoritative direction that facilitates the exchange of information and ideas.
Establish Collaborative Procedures	The ability to define and develop the mechanism and methodologies to ensure mission partners fully leverage shared information and the exchange of ideas.
Establish Collective Meaning (collaboration)	The ability to form collective perspective of the situation.
Establish Commander's Expectations	The ability to provide command priorities, intent, guidance, and standards to planning, execution, and assessment.
Establish Intent and Guidance	The ability to formulate a concise expression of purpose, methods, acceptable risk, and desired end state.
Establish Lines of Communications	The ability to assess, construct, repair, and improve routes, railroads, intermodal facilities, and supporting infrastructure to allow the speedy flow of personnel, supplies, and equipment into theater and forward to tactical units.
Establish Measures of Effectiveness	The ability to establish criteria used to assess changes in system behavior, capability, or operational environment that are tied to measuring the attainment of an end state, achievement of an objective, or creation of an effect.
Establish Measures of Performance	The ability to establish criteria or conditions used to measure task accomplishment.
Establish Metrics	The ability to establish objective criteria to assess performance and results.
Establish Rule Sets	The ability to construct directives that delineate circumstances and limitations for actions.
Establish Selection Criteria	The ability to define the valuation metrics to compare COAs.
Evaluate Courses of Actions	The ability to assess the strengths and weaknesses of each proposed COA (e.g., exercises, wargames, modeling and simulation, etc.).
Evaluate Operational Environment	The ability to assess the circumstances and characteristics of a situation or environment.
Evaluation (AP)	The ability to provide focused examination of the information and assess its reliability and credibility to a stated degree of confidence.
Evaluation (P&D)	The ability to assess the results of BA operations and products to ensure that user requirements are being met.
Exercising	The ability to plan, prepare, execute and evaluate maneuvers or simulated operations to validate training or conduct mission rehearsal. (Derived form CJCSM 3500-03A)
Experimentation	The ability to conduct an iterative process for developing and assessing concept-based hypotheses to identify and recommend the best value-added solutions for changes in doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, and facilities and policy required to achieve significant advances in future operational capabilities. (derived from CJCSI 3170.01F)
Explosives (ML)	The ability to minimize the effects of explosive attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Explosives (MN)	The ability to minimize the effects of explosive attacks which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Facilities Support	The ability to provide functional real property installation assets with utilities - energy, water, and wastewater; contract and real property management; pollution prevention; and essential services throughout natural or manmade disasters.
Field Maintenance	The ability to perform organizational, on-system work and intermediate, shop-type work at maintenance levels other than depot.
Financial Reporting	Ability to provide relevant financial visibility and real-time information dashboards for DoD decision-makers and to summarize financial information for the purpose of producing mandatory reports in compliance with regulatory requirements and discretionary reports in support of other requirements.
Fixed Target (EK)	The ability to kinetically engage a geographic area or object that is unable to move. (Modified from JP 1-02)
Fixed Target (ENK)	The ability to non-kinetically engage a geographic area or object that is unable to move. (modified from JP 1-02)
Food Service	The ability to plan, synchronize and manage subsistence support to the joint force to include dining facility management, subsistence procurement and storage, food preparation, field feeding and nutrition awareness.
Force Application	The ability to integrate the use of maneuver and engagement in all environments to create the effects necessary to achieve mission objectives.
Force Configuration	The ability to take DOTMLPF requirements and translate them into programs and structure to accomplish the missions and functions required by the Secretary of Defense.
Force Health Protection	The ability to promote, improve, conserve and restore the mental and physical well being of deployed forces.
Force Management	The ability to integrate new and existing human and technical assets from across the Joint Force and its mission partners to make the right capabilities available at the right time and place to support National security.
Force Preparation	The ability to develop, enhance, adapt and sustain the total force to effectively support National security.
Force Support	The ability to establish, develop, maintain and manage a mission ready Total Force.
Foreign Instrumentation (SC)	The ability to intercept data from foreign equipment and control systems.
Forward Unit Feeding	The ability to receive, store, centrally prepare and serve operational rations, authorized enhancements, and supplements under sanitary field feeding conditions to disbursed populations in a tactical field environment.
Foster Organizational Collaboration	The ability to establish internal structures and processes and external interfaces that facilitate interaction and coordination.
Funds Balance with Treasury Management	The ability to collect funds; issue and track disbursements; and monitor cash position.
Gap Crossing	The ability to enable joint forces to overcome breaks or openings in terrain (dry or wet, natural or man-made) by providing a system of temporary and permanent crossing techniques and equipment.
General Engineering	The ability to employ engineering capabilities and activities, other than combat engineering, that modify, maintain, or protect the physical environment. Examples include: the construction, repair, maintenance, and operation of infrastructure, facilities, lines of communication and bases; terrain modification and repair; and selected explosive hazard activities. (JP 3-34)
General Ledger Management	Ability to record proprietary and budgetary general ledger (GL) transactions in accordance with FASAB standards, GAAP and regulatory requirements; to define the use of, and rules to, control GL accounts; and to conduct GL analyses and reconciliations.
Geophysical (MSC)	The ability to detect phenomena and gather information transmitted through the geophysical area of the earth, oceans, and surrounding atmosphere, including man-made objects.
Geospatial Engineering	The ability to portray and refine data pertaining to the geographic location and characteristics of natural or constructed features and boundaries in order to provide engineer services. Examples include: terrain analyses, terrain visualization, digitized terrain products, nonstandard tailored map products, facility support, and force beddown analysis. (JP 3-34)
Global Access Engineering	The ability to enable theater access by determining and documenting infrastructure capacities, in-situ soils, hydrology, and environmental conditions, and forecast and mitigate limitations to enable deployment and improve throughput capacities.
Global Force Management	The ability to align force apportionment, assignment, and allocation methodologies in support of the National Defense Strategy and joint force availability requirements; present comprehensive insights into the global availability and operational readiness of U.S. military forces; globally source joint force requirements; and provide senior decision makers a vehicle to quickly and accurately assess the impact and risk of proposed allocation, assignment and apportionment changes. (From Annex A (Glossary) "Global Force Management Guidance FY 2005")
Global Posture Execution	The ability to develop a global network of host-nation relationships, activities, and footprint of facilities and forces by refining operational requirements for, implementing, and sustaining posture changes.
Harden Key Infrastructure and Facilities	The ability to apply site- and threat-adaptable plans and designs, advanced construction techniques and materials in order to enhance the prevention or mitigation of hostile actions against materiel resources, facilities and infrastructure.
Hardened (EKFSA)	The ability to kinetically engage targets reinforced (with armor, concrete, dirt, etc.) to protect against blast, heat, or radiation.
Hardened (EKFSP)	The ability to kinetically engage targets reinforced (with armor, concrete, dirt, etc.) to protect against blast, heat, or radiation.
Hardened (EKFU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets reinforced (with armor, concrete, dirt, etc.) to protect against blast, heat, or radiation.
Hardened (EKMSA)	The ability to kinetically engage moving targets that are reinforced (with armor, concrete, dirt, etc.) to protect against blast, heat, or radiation.
Hardened (EKMSP)	The ability to kinetically engage moving targets that are reinforced (with armor, concrete, dirt, etc.) to protect against blast, heat, or radiation.
Hardened (EKSSA)	The ability to kinetically engage targets reinforced (with armor, concrete, dirt, etc.) to protect against blast, heat, or radiation.
Hardened (EKSSP)	The ability to kinetically engage targets reinforced (with armor, concrete, dirt, etc.) to protect against blast, heat, or radiation.
Hazardous Materials Process Controls and Information Management	This capability enables the Department to provide mission-specific controls for warfighter and business operations involving hazardous materials. In addition, the capability enables common product hazard data across the enterprise.
Health Readiness	The ability to enhance DOD and our Nation's security by providing health support for the full range of military operations and sustaining the health of all those entrusted to our care.
Health Service Delivery	The ability to provide acute or long-term primary or specialty care capabilities to all eligible beneficiaries outside the theater in either the direct or purchased care system.
Health System Support	The ability to perform healthcare administrative and support related functions to sustain and continuously improve MHS mission effectiveness through focused development of people.
Housing Services	The ability to manage housing or billeting assignments, referrals, and physical asset management, and provide necessary furnishings and equipment.
Human Based Collection	The ability to acquire information from human resources, human-derived data, and human reconnaissance assets.
Human Capital Management	The ability to ensure, within the life cycle management of total force human resources, the availability of highly motivated personnel equipped with required skill sets and capabilities to achieve mission success.
Human Intelligence (HBC)	The ability to gather information for intelligence purposes derived from information collected and provided by human sources.
Hygiene Services	The ability to provide laundry, shower, textile and fabric repair support.
Ice Service	The ability to provide block, crushed, and cubed ice to support feeding, medical, mortuary affairs, and individual hydration.
Identify Aid Requirements	The ability to assess, identify and understand requirements and required resources to provide assistance to foreign partners or institutions.
Identify and Understand Adversary and Competitor Attitudes	The ability to identify and understand beliefs, perceptions and reactions of adversary and competitor audiences relevant to the strategies, policies, objectives and operations of the U.S. Government and its partners taking into account the political setting, adversary domestic politics, partner reaction and US domestic considerations.
Identify Foreign Audience Attitudes	The ability to identify and understand the cultures, social dynamics, and interrelationships and attitudes of relevant foreign audiences regarding their understanding and support of the strategies, policies, objectives, and operations of the U.S. Government and its partners taking into account the political setting, relevant foreign audience international and domestic politics, partner reaction and US domestic considerations.
Identify Foreign Security-Related Capabilities	The ability to identify and understand the capabilities of governments and institutions that may complement or assist the U.S. in furthering its national security or shared global security interests.
Identify Misinformation and Disinformation	The ability to identify misinformation and disinformation that degrades the domestic and foreign audience's understanding of the strategies, policies, and operations of the U.S. Government and its partners as well as to recognize and promote favorable information.
Imagery Collection	The ability to obtain a visual presentation or likeness of any natural or man-made feature, object, or activity at rest or in motion.
Influence Adversary and Competitor Audiences	The ability to develop and present credible information to competitor and adversary audiences to prompt them to react in a manner that is favorable to U.S. interests.
Inform Domestic and Foreign Audiences	The ability to understand, engage, develop and present objective information and to correct misinformation or disinformation to domestic and foreign audiences to improve their understanding of the strategies, policies, and operations of the U.S. Government and its partners.
Information Assurance	The ability to provide the measures that protect, defend and restore information and information systems.
Information Categorization (PE)	The ability to identify, classify and verify information associated with time sensitive objectives enabling further analysis or action.
Information Management	The ability to establish, manage and oversee policies, standards and assessment mechanisms with regard to Information Technology (IT) architecture, data, security, and information sharing.
Information Sharing	The ability to provide physical and virtual access to hosted information and data centers across the enterprise based on established data standards.
Information Transport	The ability to transport information and services via assured end-to-end connectivity across the NC environment.
Infrastructure (MTSL)	The ability to provide security for the basic installations and facilities on which a community depends.
Inspect	The ability to determine faults or verify repairs or determine condition of an item of equipment based on established equipment maintenance and serviceability standards.
Inspections	The ability to perform inspection of DoD personnel and property, particularly as relates to operational readiness.
Installation Feeding	The ability to receive, store, prepare and serve nutritious meals, authorized enhancements, and supplements in a sanitary dining facility at an enduring location or afloat based on Service ration cycle and mix, with the ability to project meals to disbursed populations.
Installation Geospatial Information and Services	This capability includes the subset of GI&S (as defined in Joint Publication 1-02) activities that enhance the DoD Installations and Environment (I&E) Business Mission Area and supports DoD business transformation by addressing business enterprise priorities as defined in the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture. IGI&S are considered complimentary to but different from GEOINT, and shall be managed as DoD information resources and information technology.
Installation Safety	The ability to prevent and respond to accidents and mitigate risk to the lowest acceptable level.
Installation Services	The ability to deliver selected services not related to real property (or personnel services) to meet the requirements of the installation population and mission.
Integrate Capabilities	The ability to understand, select and synthesize contributing functional competencies to achieve optimized action.
Integration (AP)	The ability to identify, assimilate and correlate relevant information from single or multiple sources.
Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ENKES)	The ability to disrupt, deny, degrade or destroy adversarial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.
Interpretation (AP)	The ability to derive knowledge and develop new insight from gathered information to postulate its significance.
Intuit	The ability to make instinctive assessments and preemptive decisions to adjust to and/or shape change.
Inventory Management	The ability to receive materiel in the right quality and quantity and to enable precise distribution and transfer of materiel to the customer while integrating and optimizing the links or business processes between supply nodes, maintenance, and distribution providers.
Investigations	The ability to thoroughly examine issues raised by audits and investigations or by credible allegations including, but not limited to, negligence, misconduct, or misappropriation of funding.
Issue Alerts	The ability to forewarn military decision makers, operating location population and civilian authorities of immediate threats and other dangers.
Issue Estimates	The ability to provide current situation, development, or trend analysis and interpret the significance, appraise the future possibilities and forecast the prospective results of the various actions that could be undertaken (DoD Dictionary).
Issue Orders	The ability to provide directives.
Issue Plans	The ability to provide relevant plans.
Issue Priorities	The ability to provide prioritized elements to all required organizations and assets.
Issue Rule Sets	The ability to provide all directives applicable to subordinate organizations and assets.
Joint Capability Area	Collections of like DOD activities functionally grouped to support capability analysis, strategy development, investment decision making, capability portfolio management, and capabilities-based force development and operational planning.
Joint Human Performance Enhancement	The ability to extend physical and mental endurance and enhance physiological and psychological resilience to reduce future joint force injury and illness by enhancing physical resilience, physiological resilience, psychological resilience, reduced recovery time from injury, and reduced rates of injury and illnesses.
Kinetic Means	The ability to create effects that rely on explosives or physical momentum (i.e., of, relating to, or produced by motion).
Land (MTE)	The ability to maneuver to engage on the surface of the land.
Land (MTI)	The ability to maneuver to insert on the exterior or upper boundary of the land.
Land (MTInfl)	The ability to maneuver to influence on the exterior or upper boundary of the land.
Land (MTS)	The ability to secure the surface of the land.
Launch Support Services	The ability to provide assistance for payload and launch vehicles including safety, reception, staging, integration, movement to the launch platform and return to use activities after launch operations at Federal and commercial spaceports.
Law Enforcement	The ability to provide the functions of Law Enforcement (LE) operations.
Legal Matters	The ability to support decision makers on all civil, acquisition, fiscal, military, international, and operational law issues.
Legislative Matters	The ability to advise and assist the Department of Defense leaders on all issues involving Congressional testimony or reporting.
Lessons Learned	The ability to obtain results from an evolution or observation of an implemented corrective action that contributed to improved performance or increased capability or from an evaluation or observation of a positive finding that did not necessarily require corrective action other than sustainment. (Derived from CJCSI 3150.25D)
Leverage Capacities and Capabilities of Security Establishments	The ability to stimulate foreign governments and institutions to employ capabilities that complement or assist the U.S. in furthering its national security or shared global security interests.
Light Detection and Ranging	The ability to obtain a visual presentation produced by recording pulsed laser light reflected from a given object.
Line of Sight	The ability to exchange data or information via electromagnetic spectrum within line of sight.
Localized Communications	The ability to disseminate, transmit, or receive voice, data, video and integrated telecommunications via wire or optical means within the confines of a platform or an installation (e.g., command post, post, camp, station, base, installation, headquarters, or Federal building).
Logistics	The ability to project and sustain a logistically ready joint force through the deliberate sharing of national and multi-national resources to effectively support operations, extend operational reach and provide the joint force commander the freedom of action necessary to meet mission objectives.
Logistics Services	The ability to provide services and functions essential to the technical management and support of the joint force.
Long-Haul Telecommunications	The ability to disseminate, transmit, or receive voice, data, video and integrated telecommunications via wire or optical means to, from and between platforms and/or installations (e.g., command post, post, camp, base, stations or federal buildings).
Maintain	The ability to manufacture and retain or restore materiel in a serviceable condition.
Manage Acquisition Oversight Integration	This capability manages and integrates acquisition oversight performed by DoD, DoD components and congressional committees of DoD programs to determine current status, ascertain if the requirements are achievable and/or require modification. These activities include capabilities based acquisition, periodic and ad-hoc reporting, and acquisition assessments.
Manage Adverse Actions	This capability is associated with validating the alleged offense, determining disciplinary actions, and administering adverse actions results. Adverse Actions can be based upon misconduct and/or substandard performance that result in legal or administrative actions against a Member by an appropriate military authority. Adverse legal actions may include non-punitive, non-judicial, and court-martial proceedings. Penalties may include (but not be limited to) reduction in rank, involuntary discharge, documentation of substandard performance, promotion list removal, or a sentence for confinement.
Manage Assignment and Transfer	This capability is associated with assigning or transferring Department of Defense (DoD) Members and Employees to positions. This capability includes administering assignment actions, executing individual assignment, processing inter-Service, intra-Service transfers, transferring Members between military personnel classes, to and from active duty and generating the transfer order.
Manage Benefit Programs	This capability is associated with developing, maintaining, assessing and delivering benefit programs for Military and Civilian personnel, Veterans and family members. Benefit programs may include (but not be limited to) healthcare (e.g., insurance for medical, dental, vision and long term care), education benefits (e.g., Montgomery GI Bill [MGIB], Tuition Assistance Program, Reserve Education Assistance Program [REAP]), life insurance (e.g., Group Life Insurance, Traumatic Injury Protection), retirement planning (e.g., Thrift Savings Plan [TSP]), survivor benefits (e.g., Survivor Benefit Plan [SBP], Death Gratuity) and miscellaneous benefits (e.g., Military family housing, employment assistance, death and burial benefits, injury and Savings Deposit Plan, Flexible Spending Account Program, Home Owners Assistance Program and relocation assistance). This capability is also associated with managing the contracted relationship between the Department of Defense (DoD) eligible civilian employee beneficiaries (e.g., employees, family members, and survivors under Federal Employee Health Benefits [FEHB] or similar programs) and various third-party health insurance programs under contract to the Federal government.
Manage Compensation and Reimbursements	This capability is associated with determining eligibility for reimbursement or compensation, determining reimbursement amount, earnings and deductions, authorizing reimbursement payments, and certifying the reimbursement expense and payroll information. Compensation and reimbursements may include (but not be limited to) special pays, allowances, Human Resources (HR) entitlements, travel vouchers, pay adjustments, allotments, bonds, garnishments and offsets, as well as payroll and tax withholding reporting (e.g., leave and earnings statement, personal statement of military compensation, W-2 statement of wages).
Manage Global Supplier Networks	The ability to source routine and surge requirements from the U.S. industrial base, ensure global supply availability and the capacity to support operations involving U.S., IA, PVO, and MN partners engaged in ever changing military activities around the globe.
Manage Human Resources Information	This capability is associated with managing Human Resources Information (i.e., Human Resources Profiles and Human Resources Record). This capability includes the creation, maintenance, use, and execution of disposition actions. This capability also includes distributing and reporting Human Resources Information to support personnel record requests, interagency processes, mission requirements, and sharing of personally identifiable information for identity management purposes, visibility and availability of personnel. Human Resources Information is for limited access to authorized personnel only.
Manage Human Resources Interaction	This capability is associated with managing labor relationships between the agency, its unions and bargaining units, and reviewing, validating and approving all survey requests that require participation of DoD personnel.
Manage Human Resources Management Policy and Guidance	This capability is associated with developing and coordinating the Human Resources Management (HRM) policy and guidance and providing a decision on the proposed HRM policy and guidance. This capability is also associated with establishing Human Resources policy and practices, establishing agency performance management strategy, establishing agency Human Resources development management strategy, reviewing laws, regulations, policies, and trends, identifying parity issues, establishing compensation, implementing compensation program, and creating compensation program communications approach and content.
Manage Identity Credential	This capability is associated with the management of all Department of Defense (DoD) identity credentials (Identity Cards (e.g., Common Access Card (CAC), Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Card, ID tags, unit controlled cards), and the management of information associated with them (e.g., Personal Identification Numbers (PIN) numbers, applets, identity and biometric information)) for Employees, Members, contractors, and dependents. This includes reviewing personnel identification information as well as issuing, maintaining and revoking identity credentials for access control applications.
Manage Law Enforcement	This capability is associated with protecting military members, families, and assets of the United States military by enforcing state and federal laws on the installations and have exclusive jurisdiction. Law enforcement capabilities include abilities such as support for House Watch, Child Find, and other applicable programs, maneuver and mobility support operations, area security, police intelligence operations, law and order, and internment/resettlement operations.
Manage Military Health Services	This capability is associated with providing direction, resources, healthcare providers, eligibility, enrollment, and other means necessary to promote the health of the Department of Defense (DoD) TRICARE beneficiary population. This capability also includes developing and promoting health awareness issues to educate customers, discovering and resolving environmentally based health threats, providing health services, providing preventive care and problem intervention, and improving the means and methods for maintaining the health of the beneficiary population by constantly evaluating the performance of the healthcare services system.
Manage Organization	This capability is associated with managing the human resources infrastructure for Department of Defense (DoD) organizations. This capability includes managing the implementation of DoD mission plans by formulating force structure, strength projections, accession targets, and distributing peacetime authorizations and wartime requirements.
Manage Payment	The ability to calculate entitlement, and disburse funds.
Manage Performance	This capability is associated with administering the performance evaluation process, personnel grade change (i.e., promotion and demotion), recognition programs, and physical fitness programs.
Manage Personnel Development	This capability is associated with enhancing a person's personal and professional skills, such as managing personnel classification, competency development, and career path. This capability also includes capturing a person's credential information, identifying training and education eligibility requirements, managing class seat quotas, courses, resources, as well as cataloging and scheduling personnel development resource utilization.
Manage Personnel Retention	This capability is associated with processing Members for enlistment extension, reenlistment, involuntary retention, and special category agreements. This capability also includes executing the personnel retention program, providing counseling to thoroughly explain each personnel agreement and corresponding service obligation, ensuring continued eligibility for retention, and finalizing the personnel agreement.
Manage Physical Evaluation Process	This capability is associated with conducting Physical Evaluation Board (PEB) or validating the physical evaluation appeal request that results in a physical evaluation disposition of a Member to return to duty or separate/retire.
Manage Quality of Life	This capability is associated with maintaining or improving personnel's quality of life. This includes developing policies, future plans, revenue-producing and cost saving initiatives to support Quality of Life programs, providing budget and program related guidance, and policy oversight. Quality of Life needs and the programs and actions to address them, are categorized under two general headings: living conditions and duty environment. Quality of Life programs include support for Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR), Family Support Services, Recovery Coordination Program (RCP), Social Action Programs (e.g., equal opportunity programs, voting assistance, drug/alcohol treatment and education, and sexual harassment counseling), and Employee Assistance Programs.
Manage Receipt and Acceptance	The ability to receive goods and services and accept goods and services. This capability maps to the "Manage Receipt and Acceptance" activity in the BEA.
Manage Recruiting and Accession	This capability is associated with recruiting, identifying, evaluating and selecting applicant(s) to fill a position or organizational requirement and hiring/accessing applicants against positions (e.g., planning and identifying placement requirements, determining applicant's eligibility and suitability, in-processing selected applicants, and accepting individuals into the DoD).
Manage Request	The ability to process approved requirements, collect and analyze requirements, conduct market research, forecast demand, analyze spend data, develop or refine sourcing plans, and identify agreements. This capability maps to the "Manage Request and Sourcing Strategy" activity in the BEA.
Manage Risk	The ability to recognize and balance the likelihood and consequences of undesired effects with the desired outcomes/effects.
Manage Security Services	This capability is associated with facilitating the personnel security clearance process, clearing industrial facilities, providing related technology implementations, and planning security education and training. This capability includes determining and tracking individual personnel clearances (managing personnel security) as well as supporting the National Industrial Security Program.
Manage Separation and Retirement	This capability is associated with terminating affiliation with accessed persons (e.g., military, civilian, coalition force members, volunteers, and contract personnel) by the Department of Defense (DoD). This capability may include (but not be limited to) managing voluntary military separations (e.g., resignations, contract completion), managing involuntary military separations (e.g., adverse actions, death), managing military retirements, managing civilian personnel separations/retirements, non-DoD personnel separations, and managing transition assistance programs. Both separations and retirements are implemented through appropriate actions which include issuing and updating checklist items (e.g., tasks and appointments), performing final out-processing functions (e.g., exit interview, travel arrangement), documenting the termination of the specific affiliation, initiating transfer actions where appropriate, and identifying losses which are then used to identify replacement needs.
Manage Sourcing	The ability to establish a sourcing vehicle with government sources, conduct a solicitation, establish a sourcing vehicle with commercial sources, execute the contract, administer the contract through closeout, and monitor and improve processes. This capability maps to the "Conduct Solicitation and Source Selection", "Establish Sourcing Vehicle", and "Monitor Sourcing Execution" activities in the BEA.
Manage Supplies and Equipment	The ability to maintain accountability and set retention levels of materiel and equipment.
Manage Travel	This capability is associated with documenting all types of official travel (e.g., initial hire/first duty station travel, temporary duty [TDY] travel, and Permanent Change of Station [PCS] travel). This capability also includes verifying a travel authorization, verifying required documentation, validating a traveler's eligibility and credentials (e.g., security clearance, passport, visa, foreign area clearance); initiating and finalizing travel requests and authorizations; gathering information necessary to create a travel authorization for individual or group travel; verifying fund availability; arranging travel accommodations (e.g., airlines, rental car, lodging); estimating travel costs; processing obligations for the expenses estimated on the authorization by the traveler; and reimbursing the traveler for expenses incurred by means of a created and approved payment voucher.
Manage Workforce Occupational Safety Analysis	This capability is associated with managing human resources information and Environment, Safety and Occupational Health (ESOH) control requirements to develop work and training requirements for a job position.
Maneuver	The ability to move to a position of advantage in all environments in order to generate or enable the generation of effects in all domains and the information environment.
Maneuver to Engage (MTE)	The ability to move to a position of advantage in all environments in order to employ force.
Maneuver to Influence (MTinfl)	The ability to move to a position of advantage in all environments in order to affect the behavior, capabilities, will, or perceptions of partner, competitor, or adversary leaders, military forces, and relevant populations.
Maneuver to Insert (MTI)	The ability to place forces at a position of advantage in all environments.
Maneuver to Secure (MTS)	The ability to control or deny (destroy, remove, contaminate, or block with obstacles) significant areas, with or without force, in the operational area whose possession or control provides either side an operational advantage.
Maneuvering (PKA)	The ability to defeat kinetically delivered attacks that can change speed, direction or altitude based on internal or external guidance.
Maneuvering (PKS)	The ability to defeat kinetically delivered attacks that can change speed or direction based on internal or external guidance.
Maneuvering (PKSS)	The ability to defeat kinetically delivered attacks that can change speed, direction or depth based on internal or external guidance.
Manning	The ability to recruit, retain, sustain, assign, separate and retire members of the Total Force.
Maritime (MTE)	The ability to maneuver to engage on the surface of the sea.
Maritime (MTI)	The ability to maneuver to insert on the exterior or upper boundary of the sea.
Maritime (MTInfl)	The ability to maneuver to influence on the exterior or upper boundary of the sea.
Maritime (MTS)	The ability to secure the surface of the sea.
Master Facility Design	The ability to integrate land use, bills of material and forecasts, and construction requirements that facilitate project execution and developing infrastructure and facilities.
Measurements and Signatures Collection	The ability to collect parameters and distinctive characteristics of natural or man-made phenomena, equipment, or objects.
Mitigate	The ability to minimize the effects and manage the consequence of attacks (and designated emergencies) on personnel and physical assets.
Mitigate Lethal Effects	The ability to minimize the effects of attacks or designated emergencies which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Mitigate Non-Lethal Effects	The ability to minimize the effects of attacks or designated emergencies which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Modify	The ability to change an item such that one or more measurable characteristics is altered to improve equipment performance, increase reliability, improve supportability, or enhance safety. Modify includes conversion of items to change their mission, performance, or capability.
Monitor	The ability to adequately observe and assess events/effects of a decision.
Monitor Commercial Request for DoD Technology Export	This capability provides DoD regulatory review and recommendation for the commercial business request to export DoD technology. This includes munitions and dual use technologies.
Mortuary Affairs	The ability to provide for search, recovery, identification, evacuation, preparation, and disposition of remains of persons and personal effects for whom the DoD Components are responsible by policy and statute.
Move the Force	The ability to transport units, equipment and initial sustainment from the point of origin to the point of need and provide JDDE resources to augment or support operational movement requirements of the JFC. (JL(D) JIC pg. 16)
Moving Targets (EK)	The ability to kinetically engage a system, unit, or person that is in the process of moving from one place to another.
Moving Targets (ENK)	The ability to non-kinetically engage a system, unit, or person that is in the process of moving.
Natural Hazards (ML)	The ability to minimize the effects of natural hazards which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Natural Hazards (MN)	The ability to minimize the effects of natural hazards which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Net Management	The ability to configure and re-configure networks, services and the underlying physical assets that provide end-user services, as well as connectivity to enterprise application services.
Net-Centric	The ability to provide a framework for full human and technical connectivity and interoperability that allows all DoD users and mission partners to share the information they need, when they need it, in a form they can understand and act on with confidence, and protects information from those who should not have it.
Network Resource Visibility	The ability to determine real time status and effectiveness of network services and resources.
Non-Clinical Preventive Medicine / Health Surveillance	The ability to provide comprehensive and continuous military non-clinical preventive medicine and comprehensive health surveillance to effect early intervention and control strategies for all occupational and environmental health hazards and CBRN threats, using joint technologies, practices, and procedures consistently across the military services.
Non-Contagious (MLB)	The ability to minimize the effects of non-contagious biological attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Non-Contagious (MNB)	The ability to minimize the effects of non-contagious biological attacks which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Non-Kinetic Means	The ability to create effects that do not rely on explosives or physical momentum. (e.g., directed energy, computer viruses/hacking, chemical, and biological).
Non-Maneuvering (PKA)	The ability to defeat kinetically delivered attacks that cannot change speed, direction or altitude based on internal or external guidance.
Non-Maneuvering (PKS)	The ability to defeat kinetically delivered attacks that cannot change speed or direction based on internal or external guidance.
Non-Maneuvering (PKSS)	The ability to defeat kinetically delivered attacks that cannot change speed, direction or depth based on internal or external guidance.
Nuclear (ML)	The ability to minimize the effects of nuclear attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Nuclear Radiation (MSC)	The ability to obtain information derived from nuclear radiation and other physical phenomena associated with nuclear weapons, reactors, devices, facilities and fissile materials.
Observation (HBC)	The ability to use human resources to obtain, by visual observation and other detection methods, information about surrounding activities, physical environment, and resources.
Operate the Joint Deployment and Distribution Enterprise	The ability to control, conduct and protect Joint Deployment Distribution Enterprise (JDDE) operations and accomplish necessary JDDE capability development activities to operate across the strategic, operational, and tactical continuum with integrated, robust, and responsive physical, information, communication and financial networks. (From JL(D) JIC page 11 and pages 18-21)
Operate the Joint Supply Enterprise (JSE)	The ability to work collaboratively with all partners and customers within a networked JSE, i.e., net-centric environment, to attain real time global visibility of requirements, total inventory, resources and capabilities, share knowledge and information, conduct integrated joint supply operations and performance reviews, and when required, coordinate adjustments to the end-to-end supply process and capabilities to optimize performance for the JFC.
Operational Contract Support	The ability to orchestrate and synchronize the provision of integrated contract support and management of contractor personnel providing that support to the joint force in a designated operational area.
Operational Test and Evaluation	The ability to understand and monitor matters relating to the operational effectiveness, suitability and survivability of systems in their expected combat environment.
Operationally Move the Force	The ability to move forces, equipment, and initial sustainment within theater operational areas and over intratheater distances.
Optimized Network Functions and Resources	The ability to provide DOD with responsive network functionality and dynamically configurable resources, to include allocation of required bandwidth, computing and storage.
Organize	The ability to align or synchronize interdependent and disparate entities, including their associated processes and capabilities to achieve unity of effort.
Organize Information	The ability to discover, select, and distill information within an established context.
Packaged Water (bottled/pouched)	The ability to provide potable bottled/packaged water for individual consumption.
Partner with Governments and Institutions	The ability to establish or strengthen formal or informal relationships with domestic and foreign institutions, countries, or populations to further U.S. national security or shared global security interests.
Payment Management	The ability to identify, classify, value and monitor accounts payable from acquisition or inception to disposal or liquidation.
Perform Asset Accountability	Ability to record accountability and control for all property throughout its lifecycle, from when the government takes title to or possession of property until when formally relieved of accountability by authorized means. It establishes the responsibility imposed by law, lawful order, or regulation, accepted by the Department for keeping accurate records, to ensure control of property, with or without physical possession.
Perform Build and Make and Maintenance and Sustainment	Ability to develop; sustain/ maintain; or upgrade property and equipment.
Personal Hygiene Services	The ability to provide personal shower and sink facilities and human waste collection and processing for individuals of both sexes in a field environment.
Personnel Accountability	The ability to account for DoD personnel across the spectrum of peace and wartime activities.
Personnel and Family Support	The ability to provide essential programs and services that support total force members and their families? quality of life and development in a transforming and expeditionary environment.
Personnel Management	The ability to provide the oversight and provision of human resources policies and programs that contribute to the retention of total force members fully equipped to execute national strategy.
Persuade Partner Audiences	The ability to develop and present credible information and motivational appeals synchronized with actions to partner audiences for the purpose of convincing them to accept or support the strategies, policies, plans, activities and operations of the U.S. Government and its partners and weakening and adversary's credibility and legitimacy.
Physical Environment (IC)	The ability to sense or acquire meteorological, oceanographic and space environmental data through measurement, monitoring, and sensor observations.
Planning	The ability to establish a framework to employ resources to achieve a desired outcome or effect.
Planning and Direction	The ability to synchronize and integrate the activities of collection, processing, exploitation, analysis and dissemination resources to meet BA information requirements.
Point (EKFS)	The ability to kinetically engage a target of such small dimension that it requires the accurate placement of ordnance in order to neutralize or destroy it. (FM 101-5-1)
Point (EKMS)	The ability to kinetically engage a moving target of such small dimension that it requires the accurate placement of ordnance in order to neutralize or destroy it. (FM 101-5-1)
Point (EKSS)	The ability to kinetically engage a target of such small dimension that it requires the accurate placement of ordnance in order to neutralize or destroy it. (FM 101-5-1)
Point (ENKFS)	The ability to non-kinetically engage a target of such small dimension that it requires the accurate placement of ordnance in order to neutralize or destroy it. (FM 101-5-1)
Point (ENKMS)	The ability to non-kinetically engage a moving target of such small dimension that it requires the accurate placement of ordnance in order to neutralize or destroy it. (FM 101-5-1)
Point (ENKSS)	The ability to non-kinetically engage a target of such small dimension that it requires the accurate placement of ordnance in order to neutralize or destroy it. (FM 101-5-1)
Populations (MTSL)	The ability to provide security to individuals in an area.
Port Services	The ability to perform and provide port services including ship movements, berth days, magnetic silencing, cargo handling, transient vessel support, and waterborne spill response at DoD and commercial seaports.
Position, Navigation and Timing	The ability to determine accurate and precise location, orientation, time and course corrections anywhere in the battlespace and to provide timely and assured PNT services across the DOD enterprise.
Position, Navigation and Timing (ENKES)	The ability to disrupt, deny, degrade or destroy an adversary's use of position, navigation and timing sources.
Prediction (AP)	The ability to describe the anticipated future state of the operational/physical environment based on the depiction of past and current information.
Prepare Distributable Context	The ability to share cognizant, user-tailorable conclusions with stakeholders.
Prevent	The ability to neutralize an imminent attack or defeat attacks on personnel (combatant/non-combatant) and physical assets.
Prevent Kinetic Attack	The ability to defeat attacks being delivered by systems which rely upon physical momentum.
Prevent Non-kinetic Attack	The ability to defeat attacks being delivered by systems which do not rely upon physical momentum.
Processing / Exploitation	The ability to describe the anticipated future state of the meteorological, oceanographic and space environment.
Product Generation (AP)	The ability to develop and tailor intelligence, information, and environmental content and products per customer requirements.
Professional Military Education	The ability to convey (by in-residence or distant learning) the broad body of knowledge that develops the habits of mind essential to increasing proficiency in the art and science of war.
Program / Budget and Performance	The ability to direct, supervise, provide advice, formulate policy, analyze, evaluate, and recommend efficient and effective resource allocation and performance targets/measures that support DOD missions, strategic goals, objectives, priorities, and approved strategies and policies including the ability to direct, formulate, justify, and present the costs, efficiency, effectiveness, and capabilities of DOD programs and Defense budgets timely and accurately.
Program Management	The ability to enable the planning, organizing, staffing, controlling, and leading of OCS efforts required to meet the Joint Force Commander's objectives.
Program, Budget and Finance	The ability to direct, supervise, provide advice, formulate policy, and conduct analysis on DOD program, budget, performance, and financial matters, pursuant to DOD strategic goals, objectives, priorities and approved strategies and policies.
Projectiles (ML)	The ability to minimize the effects of projectile attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Projectiles (MN)	The ability to minimize the effects of projectile attacks which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Protect Against Denial or Degradation of Services	The ability to prevent or contain activities which may degrade or deny authorized use of network resources.
Protect Against Disclosure or Modification of Data	The ability to prevent or contain activities which may expose or modify data.
Protect Against Network Infiltration	The ability to prevent unauthorized access.
Protect Data and Networks	The ability to anticipate and prevent successful attacks on data and networks.
Protection	The ability to prevent/mitigate adverse effects of attacks on personnel (combatant/non-combatant) and physical assets of the United States, allies and friends.
Provide a Healthy and Fit Force	The ability to provide and enhance a healthy and fit force from accession to veteran includes optimizing health/fitness of peacetime forces, maintaining health/fitness of deployed forces, and restoring the physical and mental health of redeployed service members.
Provide Aid to Foreign Partners and Institutions	The ability to plan, integrate, synchronize, assess and provide assistance, materiel, or services to foreign partners or institutions for the purpose of advancing U.S. national security or shared global security interests.
Provide Concept of Operations	The ability to distribute leadership's initial determination of a concept of operations, leader expectations, and follow-on adjustments, as necessary, for achieving the mission.
Provide Global Patient Movement	The ability to evacuate injured and ill personnel with appropriate enroute care. This includes all activities related to CASEVAC, MEDEVAC, aeromedical evacuation (AE), enroute care, patient movement planning, medical regulating, patient staging facilities, patient movement items, and patient in-transit visibility. Also included are all activities related to maintaining DODs Global Patient Movement Network.
Provide Installation Assets	The ability to purchase, lease, program for construction, or gain real property installation assets by any other means, including all land, natural resources, anything growing on the land, buildings, structures, housing, stationary mobile facilities, linear structures, firmly attached and integrated equipment (such as light fixtures), plus all "interests" in the property such as easements, oil and mineral rights, or use water and airspace.
Provide Mobility Assessments	The ability to understand a planned area of operations through the development of assessments on aerial and sea ports, transportation networks, cross country mobility, and mobility corridors.
Provide Position, Navigation and Timing Information	The ability to provide and control temporal and spatial reference information.
Provide Public Health / Veterinary Services	The ability to provide public health/veterinary service support to the warfighter by performing food safety operations and inspections and providing for the care and physical well-being of military working animals. Additionally, the provision of veterinary and public health services during humanitarian assistance missions is essential to HN sponsors and adds value to relationships with partner nations.
Provide Warnings	The ability to communicate and then gain acknowledgement of dangers implicit in a wide spectrum of activities by potential opponents.
Radar (ENKES)	The ability to disrupt, deny, degrade or destroy an adversary's use of radio ranging technology.
Radar (IC)	The ability to obtain a visual presentation produced by recording radar waves from any natural or man-made feature, object, or activity.
Radar (MSC)	The ability to actively or passively collect energy reflected from any natural or man-made feature, object, or activity.
Radio-Frequency (MSC)	The ability to collect information from radiation transmissions and electromagnetic pulses.
Radiological (ML)	The ability to minimize the effects of radiological attacks which have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Radiological (MN)	The ability to minimize the effect of radiological hazards which do not have the potential to kill personnel and destroy physical assets.
Range Management	The ability to safely maintain, schedule, control and monitor ranges, and uses associated with airspace/sea space and safety zone environments related to fixed point (non-maneuver) ranges.
Rapid Configuration Change	The ability to rapidly configure and reconfigure enterprise services and resources in concert with the established CONOPS.
Readiness Reporting	The ability to evaluate, appraise, and characterize the status of military forces and the supporting infrastructure to perform assigned missions.
Real Property Accountability	Real Property Accountability provides the warfighter and the Defense business enterprise access to near-real-time secure, accurate and reliable information on real property assets, and environment, safety, and occupational health sustainability.
Real Property Life Cycle Management	The ability to acquire, operate, sustain, recapitalize, realign, and dispose of real property assets to meet the requirements of the force.
Rebuild	The ability to recapitalize an item to a standard as nearly as possible to its original condition in appearance, performance, and life expectancy.
Recapitalization of Installation Assets	The ability to perform the restoration, modernization, and replacement of installation assets to meet tenant requirements and comply with safety and environmental laws to include cleanup of contamination from hazardous substances, pollutants, and contaminants.
Receivables Management	The ability to establish receivables of monies owed to the Department of Defense, managing throughout the Accounting lifecycle to include billing and managing of delinquent debt.
Reclaim	The ability to process authorized end items, assemblies, or subassemblies to obtain parts or components that are to be retained in operating materials and supplies prior to taking disposal action. Includes demilitarization actions on items prior to disposal.
Rehabilitation	The ability to restore skills to a person who has had an illness or injury so as to regain maximum self-sufficiency and function in a normal or as near normal manner as possible. Rehabilitation addresses the patient's physical, psychological, social, vocational, educational, and environmental needs. Family members often are involved actively in the patient's rehabilitation program.
Re-integration	The ability to provide a system of resources designed to assist severely ill or injured warfighters transition back to active duty or to civilian status and to their families, jobs, school, and community. The ability to assist and involve families in the transition process is a critical component to reintegration success.
Religious Advisement	The ability for chaplains to provide religious advisement consistent with their noncombatant status pertaining to the humanitarian impact on the mission and the role and meaning of faith relative to the development of foreign relationships.
Religious Affairs	The ability to provide or accommodate religious needs, to support welfare and morale, and to help the command understand the complexities of religion with regard to its personnel and mission.
Religious Support	The ability to provide for facilitation of free exercise of religion through worship, religious and pastoral counseling services and the advice to the commander on matters pertaining to morals, ethics and morale as affected by religion.
Remote Unit Feeding	The ability to receive, store, and prepare meals, authorized enhancements, and supplements under sanitary field feeding conditions to dispersed populations and return the supporting equipment.
Renovate	The ability to prove, test, evaluate, inspect, and rework ammunition or ordnance items as required for retaining their desired capability.
Repair	The ability to restore an item to serviceable condition through correction of a specific failure or condition.
Repair and Restore Infrastructure	The ability to rehabilitate critical infrastructure. This capability includes repairing or demolishing damaged buildings, restoring utilities such as electrical power, and bringing critical facilities such as hospitals, water treatment plants and waste management facilities online.
Requirements Definition	The ability of the Services and the Combatant Commands as appropriate to manage requirements from determination of need, development of acquisition-ready packages, through delivery and closure or transition.
Research	The ability to conduct fundamental research, science, technology, development and experimentation important to all Departmental capabilities and operations.
Resources (MTSL)	The ability to provide security for critical assets.
Respond to Attack / Event	The ability to maintain services while under cyber-attack, recover from cyber-attack, and ensure availability of information and systems.
Respond to Incidents	The ability to take action to mitigate the impact of anomalous activities and behavior.
Secure Information Exchange	The ability to secure dynamic information flow within and across domains.
Security Services	The ability to provide law enforcement functions and physical security to an installation.
Select Actions	The ability to choose a prudent idea or set of ideas that leads to a desired outcome or end-state within a defined set of constraints.
Select Course of Action	The ability to choose the sequence of activities that most efficiently and effectively achieves the desired objective.
Select Plan	The ability to choose a framework to employ resources, according to established selection criteria.
Server Services	The ability to compute, process, host and control information within the network to serve client services at the edge of, and throughout the network. Subcategories include server computing, production, and mass storage.
Service	The ability to conduct preventive maintenance checks and scheduled maintenance to detect, correct or prevent minor faults before these faults cause serious damage, failure, or injury.
Shallow (EKFU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at a depth of 40-200 feet.
Shallow (EKMU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at a depth of 40-200 feet.
Shallow (EKSU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at a depth of 40-200 feet.
Shape	The ability to conduct activities with partner leaders, security institutions, and relevant populations to build defense relationships that promote shared global security interests, develop allied and friendly security capabilities for self-defense and multi-national operations, and provide U.S. forces with peacetime and contingency access to a host nation.
Share Knowledge and Situational Awareness	The ability to communicate synthesized information and context. (Derived from NCOE JIC)
Shared Computing Infrastructure	The ability to provide computing processing and storage resources that can be used by more than one component, community of Interest, program, or DoD user.
Shelter	The ability to provide covered areas and other spaces for industrial operations, administration, and personnel.
Signals Collection	The ability to gather information based on the interception of electromagnetic impulses.
Socio-Cultural Data (HBC)	The ability of human resources applying their knowledge of a language, culture or region to obtain social or cultural information about the operational environment from the individual to national level.
Soft (EKFSA)	The ability to kinetically engage targets that are not protected against attack.
Soft (EKFSP)	The ability to kinetically engage targets that are not protected against attack.
Soft (EKMSA)	The ability to kinetically engage targets that are not protected against attack.
Soft (EKMSP)	The ability to kinetically engage moving targets that are not protected against attack.
Soft (EKMU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets that are not protected against attack.
Soft (EKSSA)	The ability to kinetically engage targets that are not protected against attack.
Soft (EKSSP)	The ability to kinetically engage targets that are not protected against attack.
Soft (EKSU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets that are not protected against attack.
Sonar (IC)	The ability to measure and characterize surfaces, natural or man-made objects, and layers of the maritime and littoral features.
Space (EKM)	The ability to kinetically engage moving targets in the region beginning at the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs) and extending outward. (JP 1-02)
Space (ENKM)	The ability to non-kinetically engage moving targets in the region beginning at the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs) and extending outward. (JP 1-02)
Space (MTE)	The ability to maneuver to engage in the region beginning at the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs) and extending outward. (JP 1-02)
Space (MTI)	The ability to maneuver to insert in the region beginning at the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs) and extending outward. (JP 1-02)
Space (MTInfl)	The ability to maneuver to influence in the region beginning at the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs) and extending outward. (JP 1-02)
Space (MTS)	The ability to secure the region beginning at the lower boundary of the Earth's ionosphere (approximately 50 KMs) and extending outward. (JP 1-02).
Spectrum Assignment	The ability to identify spectrum requirements; evaluate electromagnetic environmental effects (E3); and dynamically plan, allot, and modify frequency assignments to exploit available spectrum.
Spectrum Deconfliction	The ability to dynamically predict, detect, and mitigate frequency interference.
Spectrum Management	The ability to synchronize, coordinate, and manage all elements of the electromagnetic spectrum through engineering and administrative tools and procedures.
Spectrum Monitoring	The ability to monitor and characterize the electromagnetic environment.
Stationary Target (EK)	The ability to kinetically engage an object that could move but is currently not moving. (modified from JP 1-02)
Stationary Target (ENK)	The ability to kinetically engage an object that could move but is currently not moving. (modified from JP 1-02)
Stimulate the Use of Foreign Security-Related Capabilities	The ability to facilitate the employment of foreign capabilities that complement or assist the U.S. in furthering its national security or shared global security interests.
Strategically Move the Force	The ability to move forces, equipment and initial sustainment over intertheater distances.
Strategy and Assessment	The ability to establish the direction and priority of activities that DOD must do in support of its Constitutional responsibilities.
Strategy Development	The ability to assess the security environment, establish a DOD direction, strategic goals, priorities, objectives and guidance. Includes enterprise-level planning activities to determine the integrated and balanced military forces and Joint force capabilities needed to accomplish the DOD strategy.
Strengthen Global Defense Posture	The ability to develop a network of host-nation relationships activities, and footprint of facilities and forces through decision-making and diplomatic efforts which enable relevant and flexible forward U.S. military presence for contending with uncertainty and shaping the strategic environment.
Structure Organization to Mission	The ability to dynamically organize elements and define roles, responsibilities, and authorities.
Studies & Analyses	The ability to conduct reviews with appropriate rigor to improve and support policy development, decision making, management, and administration of DoD capabilities, programs and activities.
Sub-Surface (PN)	The ability to defeat non-kinetically delivered attacks beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.) or beneath the surface of a body of water.
Sub-Surface Kinetic (PK)	The ability to defeat kinetically delivered attacks beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.) or beneath the surface of a body of water.
Supply	The ability to identify and select supply sources, schedule deliveries, receive, verify, and transfer product and authorize supplier payments. It includes the ability to see and manage inventory levels, capital assets, business rules, supplier networks and agreements (to include import requirements) as well as assessment of supplier performance.
Supply Partner Aid	The ability to facilitate the delivery and receipt of aid in a manner that takes into account the partner's needs, desires, and capacity to sustain the delivered aid and that advances partnership goals and national security interests.
Surf Zone (EKFU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at a depth of 0-10 feet.
Surf Zone (EKMU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at a depth of 0-10 feet.
Surf Zone (EKSU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at a depth of 0-10 feet.
Surface (EKF)	The ability to kinetically engage targets on land or water.
Surface (EKM)	The ability to kinetically engage moving targets on land or water.
Surface (EKS)	The ability to kinetically engage targets on land or water.
Surface (ENKF)	The ability to non-kinetically engage targets on the land or water.
Surface (ENKM)	The ability to non-kinetically engage moving targets on the exterior or upper boundary of the land or water.
Surface (ENKS)	The ability to non-kinetically engage targets on the exterior or upper boundary of the land or water.
Surface (PK)	The ability to defeat kinetically delivered attacks on the exterior or upper boundary of the land or water.
Surface (PN)	The ability to defeat non-kinetically delivered attacks on the exterior or upper boundary of the land or water.
Sustain the Force	The ability to deliver supplies, equipment and personnel replacements to the joint force. (JL(D) JIC pg. 17)
Sustainment of Installation Assets	The ability to assess, preserve, maintain, and repair any built, natural, and cultural installation assets. Includes regular surveys and inspections, and measures to comply with environmental and conservation requirements.
Switching and Routing	The ability to move data and information end to end across multiple transmission media.
Synchronize Operations	The ability to arrange actions through established links with mission partners to ensure coordination of operations.
Systems Engineering & Manufacturing	The ability to execute a program of record responding to a validated materiel capability need through application of systems engineering, including Integrated System Design and System Capability and Manufacturing Process Demonstration.
Task	The ability to direct actions and resources.
Task and Monitor Resources (P&D)	The ability to task, track, direct, and adjust BA operations and their associated resources to fulfill requirements.
Test	The ability to evaluate the operational condition of an end item or subsystem thereof against an established standard or performance parameter.
Textile Services	The ability to receive, segregate, clean, repair, replace, and return individual clothing, light textile items, and individual equipment (OCIE) in a field environment.
Training	The ability to enhance the capacity to perform specific functions and tasks using institutional, operational, or self-development (to include distance learning) domains in order to improve the individual or collective performance of personnel, units, forces, and staffs. (Derived from CJCSM 3500.03B)
Treatment	The ability to administer or apply remedies to a patient for a disease or injury, including medicinal and surgical management, therapy, or combinations, intervention radiology and to provide for palliative and end of life care.
Underground (EKF)	The ability to kinetically engage targets beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.).
Underground (EKM)	The ability to kinetically engage moving targets beneath the surface of the earth.
Underground (EKS)	The ability to kinetically engage targets beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.).
Underground (ENKF)	The ability to non-kinetically engage targets beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.).
Underground (ENKM)	The ability to non-kinetically engage moving targets beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.).
Underground (ENKS)	The ability to non-kinetically engage targets beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.).
Underground (MTE)	The ability to maneuver to engage beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.).
Underground (MTI)	The ability to maneuver to insert beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.).
Underground (MTInfl)	The ability to maneuver to influence beneath the surface of the earth, (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.).
Underground (MTS)	The ability to secure areas beneath the surface of the earth (bunkers, basements, tunnels, caves, etc.).
Understand	The ability to individually and collectively comprehend the implications of the character, nature, or subtleties of information about the environment and situation to aid decision-making.
Understand Implications	The ability to derive meaning and significance of selected information in a given context (within specific time and geographic constraints) and to assess the consequences of potential decisions.
Understand Objectives	The ability to comprehend intent and guidance within a given situation.
Underwater (EKF)	The ability to kinetically engage targets below the surface of a body of water.
Underwater (EKM)	The ability to kinetically engage moving targets below the surface of a body of water.
Underwater (EKS)	The ability to kinetically engage targets below the surface of a body of water.
Underwater (ENKF)	The ability to non-kinetically engage targets below the surface of a body of water.
Underwater (ENKM)	The ability to non-kinetically engage moving targets below the surface of a body of water.
Underwater (ENKS)	The ability to non-kinetically engage targets below the surface of a body of water.
Underwater (MTE)	The ability to maneuver to engage below the surface of a body of water.
Underwater (MTI)	The ability to maneuver to insert below the surface of a body of water.
Underwater (MTInfl)	The ability to maneuver to influence below the surface of a body of water.
Underwater (MTS)	The ability to secure areas below the surface of a body of water.
User Access (Portal)	The ability to access user defined DoD Enterprise Services through a secure single entry point.
Utility Operations	The ability to manage and operate power, environmental control, water, and waste systems.
Utilize Geospatial Data	The ability to provide the Joint Force Commander with the foundation layer of the operational environment for use with collaborative decision-support, and terrain analysis tools.
Utilize Position, Navigation and Timing Information	The ability to acquire and apply temporal and spatial reference information to produce continuous PNT solutions.
Very Shallow (EKFU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at a depth of 10-40 feet.
Very Shallow (EKMU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at a depth of 10-40 feet.
Very Shallow (EKSU)	The ability to kinetically engage targets under water at a depth of 10-40 feet.
Water and Ice Service	The ability to produce, test, store and distribute bulk, packaged and frozen water in a contingency environment.
Water Reuse	The ability to collect, process and return grey water from showers and laundries for re-use in showers and laundry.
Wired Transmission	The ability to transfer data or information with an electrical/optical conductor.
Wireless Transmission	The ability to transfer data or information without an electrical/optical conductor.
Wounded, Ill and Injured Support	The ability to provide seamless support (not already covered under Health Readiness) for wounded, ill and injured military members, their families, and caregivers, across the continuum of care including recovery and rehabilitation.