The technical standard forecast description chapter displays a table with milestones as column headers and Standards in rows. The states occupy the cells between the standards and the milestones.

This chapter is particularly useful when the NTV-2 master plan is also an aggregation of a sub-master plan. In this case the table displays the standards as they are planned in the sub-master plans.

It is also very useful when it shows the potential availability conflicts between standards and other dependent items.