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Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System
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<p>The Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) is the formal <a href="/facts/United_States_Department_of_Defense/dWAvf7e3">United States Department of Defense</a> (DoD) process which defines acquisition requirements and evaluation criteria for future defense programs. JCIDS was created to replace the previous service-specific requirements generation system that allowed redundancies in capabilities and failed to meet the combined needs of all US military services. In order to correct these problems, JCIDS is intended to guide the development of requirements for future acquisition systems to reflect the needs of all five services (<a href="/facts/United_States_Army/WACWBEK9">Army</a>, <a href="/facts/United_States_Navy/xYK0fUou">Navy</a>, <a href="/facts/United_States_Marine_Corps/J8JDlJG2">Marine Corps</a>, <a href="/facts/United_States_Space_Force/bWlsxC5D">Space Force</a> and <a href="/facts/United_States_Air_Force/7MxWBYlc">Air Force</a>) by focusing the requirements generation process on needed <i>capabilities</i> as requested or defined by one of the US <a href="/facts/Unified_Combatant_Command/GhMUXheg">combatant commanders</a>. In an ideal implementation of the JCIDS process, regional and functional combatant commanders give early and continuous feedback into the acquisition and sustainment processes to ensure their current and evolving requirements are known and met. </p>