Send a Unit’s Need Forward With Its Strength, Distance, and Author

The Warfighter Evidence Brief

Use this when a statement of what a unit needs is about to reach someone who decides. The brief sends the claim forward with its strength, its distance, and its author. Worked in “Grade the Evidence for a Unit’s Need Before Anyone Buys Anything.”

The Warfighter Evidence Brief: one page, attached to the statement of need.

Field	Entry
1. The claim about what a unit needs
2. Which warfighter role and unit type
3. User Evidence Ladder level, with the evidence itself
4. Distance to the Fight of any test behind it
5. Who wrote the claim: the unit, a requirements staff, a program office, or a contractor
6. What evidence is missing
7. What result would change our mind
8. The smallest test that would raise the evidence one level (usually a D0 or D1 trial)
9. The Integrator Sort lane it points to, if known
10. The decision requested, and who holds it (commander, PAE, contracting officer)

Field

Entry

1. The claim about what a unit needs

2. Which warfighter role and unit type

3. User Evidence Ladder level, with the evidence itself

4. Distance to the Fight of any test behind it

5. Who wrote the claim: the unit, a requirements staff, a program office, or a contractor

6. What evidence is missing

7. What result would change our mind

8. The smallest test that would raise the evidence one level (usually a D0 or D1 trial)

9. The Integrator Sort lane it points to, if known

10. The decision requested, and who holds it (commander, PAE, contracting officer)

The brief does not replace a legal document. Attach it to the document that now states the need. If field 5 says a contractor wrote the claim, apply FAR 7.503, which bars contractors from deciding what the government buys. If field 7 is blank, nobody has defined acceptance.