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The Equipment Capability Customer (ECC), Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) agency and associated stakeholders are responsible for the management and delivery of capability, including its definition, analysis and transition to funded projects and programmes. Critical for future success is ensuring the principles of collaborative working are prioritised to ensure coherence across all stakeholders. Such collaborative working will extend from the MoD leads for the Defence Lines of Development to the industry partners who will ultimately supply the equipment and services needed to meet the capability requirement.

Capability Management Support
EDS Defence Consulting are experts and trusted partners for the provision of the key services needed to assist with capability management challenges particularly covering the activities of definition, analysis & planning within the capability management cycle.

Our coherent application of People, Process and Technology provides a range of services to support Capability Management. Furthermore, EDS Defence Consulting can deliver these services with a combination of Enterprise Architects, Business Analysts, Technical and Military Subject Matter Experts and world class Systems Integration Expertise. Our team has a wealth of experience using proven processes and methodologies including:

• Soft Systems Methodology
• MoD Architectural Framework
• The Coalition Capability Development Framework
• Static and Dynamic modelling of distributed Information Systems

• Establishing boundaries for Systems of Interest and identifying interfaces with other systems and the operational environment;
• Developing and analysing concepts in relation to Tasks & Roles, and Joint & Mission Essential Task Lists;
• Defining baseline, emerging and future capabilities, together with their characteristics and the appropriate metrics against taxonomies;
• Conducting reviews and assessments of Research and Technology to inform capability planning;
• The development of "costed" Through Life Capability Management Plans;
• Assessing In Service and emerging capability to identify:
• Capability Gaps, Overlaps & Options;
• Technology insertion/migration options to sustain/improve capability;
• Conducting Experimentation, OA, Through-life costing and Trade Off Analyses;
• Producing COEIAs;
• Decomposing Capability Requirements and Metrics to cascade them down into User and Systems Requirement across the DLODs;
• Identifying programme outcomes, key integration points and project dependencies/interfaces with legacy and emerging capability across DLODs;
• Supporting Acquisition from the development of programme plans through to acceptance providing the output for evidence based approvals.