**If your DCR is NOT a successor document to one or more previously validated JCIDS document (ICD, IS-ICD, SW-ICD, etc.), then the requirements of this section of your document are greatly expanded. This section will need to reference and include the requirements for the capability requirement and associated capability gap information outlined for Section 3 of an ICD. Use Figure B- 1: CR and Gap/Overlap Table in Appendix A of Enclosure B as the example.

The main purpose of this section is clearly laid out in 2.5.2.3.1.1, “…identify the validated CRs addressed or enabled by the Joint DCR, and to outline the results of related studies, lessons learned or analysis performed to define the change recommendations.”

Your recommended DOTmLPF-P changes will have to either remain consistent with previously constructed DoDAF CVs (Capability Viewpoint) views (e.g. CV-2 (Capability Taxonomy), CV-3 (Capability Phasing), CV-6 (Capability to Operational Activities Mapping), etc.) or document resultant changes to these viewpoints. BLUF: if these recommended changes change the way you define or use terms, change your ‘path’ for developing and integrating capability over time, or change how capabilities integrate and support each other, update the respective CVs to reflect these changes.

Section 2.5.1.3.2 outlines your responsibility to summarize all previous and supporting analyses—including what level of detail is required within this section. It further requires you to ensure that these analyses, whether formal reports, summaries of wargames or experiments, summaries of technology demonstrations, and so forth, are ALL present within the Joint Staff’s Knowledge Management / Decision Support (KM/DS) portal.

As with all JCIDS documents, Section 2.5.1.3.3 reminds you to pay particular attention in this section to key intelligence support capabilities affected by your recommended DOTmLPF-P changes. This means that if your recommendations changes either change the intelligence NEEDS of your formations or change how intelligence is FED from your formations to higher echelons, you will need to describe the changes and cite any analyses that were conducted on the implications of these changes.