Capabilities act as the initial set of requirements

• Provide the drivers for the Operational View
• Enable trade off analysis across the equipment programs
• CVs are used by the policy/analytical concepts areas to carry out:
  • Capability Gap analysis
  • Examine Capability Phasing across time periods
• Consist of 7 views
• Capture the Phases in which capabilities are
• Refined in the Project views
• Capability taxonomies normally taken from a Reference architecture
• Show how capabilities are related to each other
• Capability dependencies: show how capabilities are used by each other
• How capabilities will be deployed and used by different organizations
• Traceability matrices show mappings to capabilities from:
  • Operational Activities (CV-6)
  • Services (CV-7)