Business Scenario
Entry statement:
You want to define a new Capability Code for an Infantry Battalion with the imbedded Combat Intelligence Collection capabilities, and fit it into the Capability hierarchy.
The Defense and Security solution has been built to support the NATO CCS concept (Capability area Groups/Capability Code/Capability Statements/Variants).
The solution allows for multiple sets of capabilities to be modeled under different root nodes. The idea here is that a nation can bring in a standard set like the NATO CCS. It then defines their own parallel set which can have more or less capabilities and/or different capability statements. The sets can be cross-referred.
When linked to an FE, capabilities define the outcomes that the unit is expected to provide (for example, Light Infantry Battalion, Air Surveillance Capability - Deployable Air Defense Radar).
The use of Capability Codes can simplify the multinational Operations planning and allocation. By using CC terms, we establish a common understanding of what the planner needs, and each nation can allocate the appropriate units, which might have different organizational structures and weapon systems.
Capability Code (CC): Definition
The Capability Codes can describe the type of a unit, like we see in the examples to the left, or in the form of function, like the examples on the right.
Later, we will see that we can assign multiple CC to a unit, so as part of the solution design we have the flexibility to follow multiple Capability definitions and hierarchy concepts.
Capability Hierarchy (CH)
To make an order in the list of CC, it is possible to organize them in hierarchy.
Here is an example of the NATO Capability hierarchy, which has three layers.
The system supports as many layers as needed, and as many hierarchies 'trees' as needed.
This can be used to create a national capability tree next to NATO capability tree.
Here is an example of how the capability tree is represented in the system. This figure, Capability Hierarchy: Capability Tree, Entry, shows the Selection Area and the potential results. For more details, see the next figure, Capability Hierarchy: Opening a Capability Tree.
This figure shows a Capability Tree that has been opened.
At this point, we will only focus on part of the header attributes, other attributes, (such as variant group) will be covered later.
A CC can reference others, and allow traceability of the capability development.
We can also see the Force Elements to which this capability is assigned.
