The DRRS is a network of applications geared toward understanding the capabilities of military forces and the risks associated with them. The information in the DRRS goes well beyond the standard resource accounting approach of traditional readiness reporting. It contains assessments of each organization's ability to conduct assigned tasks either in the context of their core mission or assigned operations.

This information is supplemented by detailed resource and training information that is pulled from authoritative data sources. The network also contains applications that allow users to build ad hoc forces (by searching for a specific type of unit or task); develop scenarios; conduct sustainment and transportation simulations as well as quantify operational risk.