(D) The development of the personnel 
skills, capacity, and training needed for an ef-
fective and efficient requirements process. 
(E) Such other outcomes as the Secretary 
shall determine appropriate. 
(d) IMPLEMENTATION.—The program required by 
subsection (a) shall be developed and initially implemented 
not later than one year after the date of the enactment 
of this Act and shall apply to joint military requirements 
entering the requirements process after the date of initial 
implementation. 
(e) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after 
the initial implementation of the program required by sub-
section (a), the Secretary shall submit to the congressional 
defense committees a report on the steps taken to develop 
and implement the performance management program for 
joint military requirements. The report shall address the 
measures specified in subsection (c)(1). 
(f) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than four years after 
the initial implementation of the program required by sub-
section (a), the Secretary shall submit to the congressional 
defense committees a report on the effectiveness of the 
program for joint military requirements in achieving the 
outcomes specified in subsection (c)(2). 
(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
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(1) REQUIREMENTS PROCESS.—The term ‘‘re-
quirements process’’ means the Joint Capabilities 
Integration and Development System (JCIDS) proc-
ess or any successor to such process established by 
the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to support 
the statutory responsibility of the Joint Require-
ments Oversight Council in advising the Chairman 
and the Secretary of Defense in identifying, assess-
ing, and validating joint military capability needs, 
with their associated operational performance cri-
teria, in order to successfully execute missions. 
(2) REQUIREMENTS
DOCUMENT.—The term 
‘‘requirements document’’ means a document pro-
duced in the requirements process that is provided 
for an acquisition program to guide the subsequent 
development, production, and testing of the program 
and that— 
(A) justifies the need for a materiel ap-
proach, or an approach that is a combination of 
materiel and non-materiel, to satisfy one or 
more specific capability gaps; 
(B) details the information necessary to 
develop an increment of militarily useful, 
logistically supportable, and technically mature 
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capability, including key performance param-
eters; or 
(C) identifies production attributes re-
quired for a single increment of a program. 
(3) REQUIREMENTS
CREEP.—The term ‘‘re-
quirements creep’’ means the addition of new tech-
nical or operational specifications after a require-
ments document is approved. 
(h) DISCRETIONARY IMPLEMENTATION AFTER 5 
YEARS.—After the date that is five years after the initial 
implementation of the performance management program 
under this section, the requirement to implement a pro-
gram under this section shall be at the discretion of the 
Secretary of Defense. 
SEC. 104. ESTABLISHMENT OF A REQUIREMENTS PROCESS 
FOR THE ACQUISITION OF SERVICES. 
(a) REQUIREMENTS PROCESS REQUIRED.—The Sec-
retary of Defense shall ensure that each military depart-
ment establishes a process for identifying, assessing, and 
approving requirements for the acquisition of services, and 
that commanders of unified combatant commands and 
other officers identified or designated as joint qualified of-
ficers have an opportunity to participate in the process 
of each military department to provide input on joint re-
quirements for the acquisition of services. 
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