Minimum Essential Characteristics Table
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Minimum Essential Characteristics | Technical Spec
Minimum Essential Characteristics
A framework for assessing system capabilities, compliance baselines, and remediation strategies. Prepared By:
Warfighter Readiness, Performance, and Brain Health (WRPBH) Project Management Office (PMO)
Date of Issue:
September 10, 2026
Minimum Essential Characteristics | Technical Spec
1. Overview
This document provides the structured evaluation matrix for essential system and technical characteristics, outlining minimum requirements, desired capabilities, compliance status, and remediation plans where applicable. It serves as a baseline for technical alignment, ensuring all architectural and operational standards are met or systematically planned for integration.
2. Technical & Operational Characteristics Matrix
No.
Essential
Characteristic
Minimum Characteristic Required
Desired Characteristics
Meets MINIMUM
or DESIRED?
User Population
Describe supported user types, role-based
access, and scalable user capacity.
Supports scalable user growth, granular
role-based access, delegated
administration, and separation of user
populations or organizations as needed.
☐ Minimum
Describe support for vendor applications,
VA-connected/VA-originating applications,
DHA systems, and future sources.
Supports onboarding of new data sources
through documented, repeatable
integration patterns with minimal custom
development.
☐ Minimum
Describe support for clinical,
administrative, operational, financial,
scheduling, encounter, assessment,
document, and analytics data, as
applicable.
Supports structured, semi-structured, and
unstructured data, with configurable
schemas and metadata management.
☐ Minimum
Provide current and projected storage
volumes, ingestion assumptions, and
growth assumptions.
Scales storage and processing capacity
without material service interruption and
provides transparent capacity-monitoring
and forecasting capabilities.
☐ Minimum
Data Sources
Data Types
Data Volume
☐ Desired
☐ Desired
☐ Desired
☐ Desired
Discuss Plan to Meet
Minimum
Minimum Essential Characteristics | Technical Spec
No.
Essential
Characteristic
Minimum Characteristic Required
Desired Characteristics
Meets MINIMUM
or DESIRED?
Data Refresh
Describe available near-real-time, daily,
weekly, and on-demand data-refresh
options.
Supports near-real-time data exchange
where operationally appropriate, with
configurable refresh schedules, error
handling, and reconciliation reporting.
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