DAFPD90-16 governs Department of the Air Force policy for the use, governance, and management of studies and analysis under SAF/SA.
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DAFPD90-16 addresses analytic resources, common frameworks, joint scenarios, decision-making, workforce development, and analytic priorities. It requires credible, unbiased, standardized, integrated, and defensible studies and analysis.
Inform and improve with analytic products a broad range of decisions and processes including, but not limited to, force design, active component/reserve component force mix, system cost effectiveness, testing, strategic and developmental planning, capabilities-based assessment, requirements determination, acquisition of new capabilities, recapitalization and modernization, resource allocation and investment, operational assessment, security cooperation assessment, risk assessment, and manpower allocation. (paragraph 2)
Provide decision-makers at all levels and across all functions and domains of the DAF with analytic foundations for making data-informed decisions with confidence. (paragraph 2)
Acquire and cultivate a skilled analytic workforce with current training, modern tool sets, processes that encourage innovation, and effective leadership across DAF capabilities, domains, and classification levels to gain the full benefit of studies and analysis for decisionmakers. (paragraph 2)
Establish common frameworks for comprehensive and defensible study and analysis processes used by the DAF Analytic Community. These common frameworks include scenario descriptions and assumptions, threat projections, operational concepts, capability performance data, and cost estimates. (paragraph 2)
Use jointly developed scenarios and assumptions as common baselines for analysis, and document deviations from those starting points as excursions in common frameworks. (paragraph 2)