What is an Urgent Need: “An urgent need is an exceptional request from a Navy or Marine Corps component commander for an additional warfighting capability critically needed by operating forces conducting combat or contingency operations.”
“Failure to deliver the capability requested is likely to result in the inability of units to accomplish their missions or increases the probability of casualties and loss of life.”
“The Deliberate Universal Need Statement (D-UNS) documents and describes a current or projected capability shortfall that is expected to lead to the inability of the force to achieve force development and design objectives established by the Commandant of the Marine Corps. The D-UNS is primarily intended to inform the design and development of the future force during the next annual Planning, Programming, Budgeting, Execution, and Assessment (PPBEA) cycle”
Urgent Needs Process Deliberate Needs Process
