Which set of items serves as inputs to Phase 1 Develop Required Capabilities?

• A. Strategy Concepts
• B. Current Force Structure
• C. Capability Gaps
• D. Strategy Concepts; Current Force Structure; Capability Gaps

Answer: (B)

The main thing being tested is how you start identifying what capabilities are needed. In Phase 1 Develop Required Capabilities, you begin from the actual, existing force and its constraints—the current force structure. This baseline tells you what forces, units, equipment, and readiness are already in place and where gaps show up relative to mission requirements. That makes the current force structure the essential input for determining what capabilities are truly required.

Strategy concepts provide overarching direction and priorities, but they aren’t the raw inputs you use to define the initial set of required capabilities in this phase. Capability gaps are identified as part of the analysis during this phase; they’re outcomes of comparing the current force to what is needed, not starting inputs.