Strategic Processes
This acronym represents the eight key elements that must be considered when developing and integrating new capabilities into the military, ensuring a holistic approach to modernization.
What is DOTMLPF-P?
This type of thinking is often used to generate new ideas, solve problems in innovative ways, and see possibilities others might miss.
What is creative thinking?
The ability to analyze information objectively and rationally, evaluating its credibility and forming well-reasoned judgments.
What is critical thinking
This type of testing, conducted early in the acquisition process, focuses on identifying design flaws and maturing a system, while the other assesses performance in a realistic operational environment to determine if it meets the warfighter’s needs.
What are Developmental Testing (DT) and Operational Testing (OT)?
This structured technique helps groups generate a wide range of ideas and gets its name from the storm-like flurry of suggestions it produces
What is brainstorming?
This involves breaking down information into its component parts, identifying assumptions, and evaluating quality of evidence.
What is analyzing and assessing
While the National Defense Authorization Act authorizes what the Department of Defense can do, this separate Congressional process actually provides the funding to do it.
What is the Appropriations process?
Creative thinking is especially important in this JPP step, where planners develop multiple Courses of Action (COAs).
What is COA Development?
Critical thinkers are willing to adjust their thinking based on new information or insights, and they strive to improve the clarity and accuracy of their understand by doing this.
What is reconstructing thought process
This is the cyclical process the Department of Defense uses to translate strategic goals into resource allocations.
What is PPBE (Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution)?
This phrase describes the ability to challenge assumptions, approach problems from new angles, and explore unconventional solutions
What is “thinking outside the box”?
This is the deliberate process military leaders use to evaluate facts, assumptions, and possible courses of action before making a decision.
What is the military decision-making process (MDMP)?
This system is the cornerstone of the DoD's acquisition process, linking warfighter needs to material solutions through a series of analyses and approvals, starting with a Capability Development Document.
What is JCIDS (Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System)?
Creative thinking plays a major role in this JPP step, where COAs are tested through wargaming and refined based on feasibility and risk.
What is COA Analysis (Wargaming)?
When presented with conflicting intelligence reports, this critical thinking skill helps leaders determine which information is most reliable and relevant.
What is evaluating sources for credibility and bias?