• Software/system concept of operation and requirements

  Including anticipated directions of change

• Software/system architecture (product plan)

  - Components, connectors, constraints, style, interfaces

  - Compliance with DoD architecture frameworks

  - Relation to DoD product line architectures

  - Choice of COTS, NDI components, programming language

• Software life-cycle plan (process plan)

  - Life-cycle responsibilities, milestones, increments, phases, cycles

  - Budgets, schedules, other key resources, risk management plan

• Rationale demonstrating feasibility of plan and architecture

  - Results of prototypes, simulations, analyses