Joint Theater Air and Missile Defense Organization (JTAMDO)

The Joint Theater Air and Missile Defense Organization (JTAMDO) was established to provide a single organization within the Department of Defense for the planning, coordination, and oversight of joint, integrated theater air and missile defense operational requirements. To help achieve this objective, the JTAMDO selected Holmes-Tucker International, Inc., to install and operate a state-of-the-art requirements management system in 1997 to improve staff efficiency and provide better linkage among Service and jointly-developed requirements planning and management information. The JTAMDO RMS was used to reduce requirements review and development cycle time and to provide links to detailed, specific elements of requirements information with national strategy documents, military capability analyses, mission tasks, and mission deficiencies. It provided JTAMDO, government, and contractor personnel with tools to electronically develop, document, coordinate, analyze, generate, and maintain long-term history and change traceability of TAMD-related Service and CINC requirements documents at a detailed level of reference. The JTAMDO RMS operated on the TOP SECRET JSIN wide-area network until a significant change of the JTAMDO mission dictated shutdown of the RMS in 2005. The processes and tools developed between 1997 and 2005 were carried forward and implemented within the "Master RMS" that now supports several major NAVAIR programs.