BY ORDER OF THE COMMANDER
AIR EDUCATION AND TRAINING
COMMAND
AIR EDUCATION AND TRAINING
COMMAND INSTRUCTION 10-602
23 DECEMBER 2020
Operations
AETC CAPABILITY REQUIREMENTS
DEVELOPMENT
COMPLIANCE WITH THIS PUBLICATION IS MANDATORY
ACCESSIBILITY: Publications and forms are available on the e-Publishing website at
www.e-Publishing.af.mil for downloading or ordering
RELEASABILITY: There are no releasability restrictions on this publication
OPR: AETC/A5XS
Supersedes: AETCI10-602,
22 September 2017
Certified by: AETC/A5X
(Colonel Edward S. Brewer)
Pages: 12
This instruction implements AFPD 10-6 Capability Requirements Development, AFMAN 63-
144, Business Capability Requirements, Compliance, and Systems Acquisition, and AFI 63-138,
Acquisition of Services. It identifies the functional structure and processes used to identify gaps
in capabilities required to support the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) and Force
Development Commander (FD/CC) mission(s) and validate requirement(s) to fill or mitigate
such gaps. This instruction applies to the Total Force – Active Duty (AD) Air Force (AF), Air
Force Reserve (AFR), Air National Guard (ANG), and Department of the Air Force (DAF)
Civilians when requesting AETC funding. It is used for all unclassified, collateral,
compartmented, and special access programs within AETC and the recruit, train and educate
mission owners who are seeking to fund an initiative or recapitalize an existing program/process.
This AETCI may not be supplemented by commanders responsible for implementing this
instruction. Supplements will be used to establish organization-specific guidance (T-2). Do not
use local operating instructions to implement guidance in this instruction (T-2). Commanders
will send proposed supplements through their training group or wing and numbered air force
(NAF) to HQ AETC/A5X for review and coordination prior to publishing. Refer recommended
changes and questions about this publication to the Office of Primary Responsibility (OPR)
using the AF Form 847, Recommendation for Change of Publication. Route AF Forms 847 from
the field unit through the training group, training wing and numbered air force (NAF) to HQ
AETC/A5X. The authorities to waive wing/unit level requirements in this publication are
identified with a Tier ("T-0, T-1, T-2, T-3") number following the compliance statement. See
AFI 33-360, Publications and Forms Management, for a description of the authorities associated
with the Tier numbers. Unless otherwise specified, requests for waiver must be submitted by the
