General guidance for the Cover Page includes:

- Sponsoring Organization: The organization which authorized the submittal of the document for review and validation. A sponsor GO/FO must endorse new documents, and modifications to validated documents. The sponsoring organization is usually the Service or Agency or a Major Command of the Service, or may also be a Combatant Command or Joint Staff Organization.

- Proposed Joint Staffing Designator (JSD): When asserting a proposed JSD, you should seek to set it at the lowest level, while acknowledging that the review process may elevate it later. There are four JSDs per the JFRP Manual, but for the documents proscribed in the Manual (the CRD, JDCR, and CDR), you will likely NOT USE the Service Information designation—you will likely use one of the following:

- FCB Interest (akin to the former FCB Interest): The FCB is the validation authority for FCB Interest documents, and relate to documents where the requirement is necessary to fulfill a capability gap of more than one Service, and/or where the requirement will likely be addressed with an ACAT III (or equivalent) acquisition program.

- JCB Interest (akin to the former JCB Interest): The JCB is the validation authority for JCB Interest documents, and relate to documents where the requirement is necessary to fulfill a capability gap of more than one Service, and/or where the requirement will likely be addressed with an ACAT II (or equivalent) acquisition program. There is an exception for USSOCOM and USCYBERCOM documents that have their own independent validation authority. (See the Manual for more details.)

- JROC Interest (same as previous designation under JCIDS): The JROC is the validation authority for JROC Interest documents, and relate to documents where the requirement is necessary to fulfill a capability gap of more than one Service, and/or where the requirement will likely be addressed with an ACAT I (or equivalent) acquisition program.

- Proposed Lead FCB: Choose the FCB that you believe has the highest equity in the capability gap. If the gap applies to more than one, choose the ‘best fit,’ acknowledging that it may be shared by that FCB with other FCBs during the staffing process.

- Point(s)-of-contact for the document: The JFRP Manual required a Point of Contact for the document, but the RDW provides you an OPTIONAL space to include a secondary POC, if you have one. If not, simply skip over it and remove it from the document once you get to MS Word.