26th International Association for Management of Technology Conference - IAMOT 2017

The evolution of warfare, and its increasing complexity has made planning for future deployments more difficult. The need to plan for more eventualities makes it more complex. The need for decision support tools and technologies to assist capability planners make more sound decisions has become more critical. Many defence forces have made a conscious decision to ditch threat based planning approach for the capability based planning (CBP). This paper will focus on the implementation of CBP in the military. the envisaged process to be following, including the stakeholders involved to ensure the successful implementation. The paper will further discuss the Capability Lifecycle (CLC) defined in the South African National Defence Force context, and the link of this proposed life cycle to the system life cycle as define in Defence Acquisition Publication 100. The implementation of the Capability Life Cycle approach will be investigated in terms of the tools and technology support require to facilitate successful implementation of the CLC. There are various tools to be dealt with supporting the implementation of the CLC approach, for example Enterprise Architecture modelling, Model-based systems engineering, capability engineering and interoperability support. The paper will conclude by focussing on the requirements for successful implementation of the CLC process. The benefits of this implementation and envisaged improvements in efficiency will be emphasised. Verification and validation of requirements will be addressed through concept development and experimentation discussion