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Joint Capability DevelopmentJoint Capability Developmentfor the Warfighterfor the Warfighter

Joint Capability DevelopmentJoint Capability Developmentfor the Warfighterfor the Warfighter

Brigadier General Rich Shook, USAFR Brigadier General Rich Shook, USAFR Vice Director, Joint Capability DevelopmentVice Director, Joint Capability DevelopmentU.S. Joint Forces CommandU.S. Joint Forces Command9 September 20089 September 2008

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Public Affairs Office: U.S. Joint Forces Command J8, 1562 Mitscher Ave., Suite 200, Norfolk VA 23551-2488

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Agenda

• Joint Capability Development

• USJFCOM Commander’s C2 Vision

• C2 Capability Portfolio Management

• Joint Close Air Support (JCAS) Digital Data Standards and Interoperability

• Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) Training

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• Advancing warfighter effectiveness and improving combat capability

Recommend changes in Doctrine, Organization,

Training, Material, Leadership & education, Personnel,

Facilities and Policy (DOTMLPF-P)

• Integrating and synchronizing Joint warfighting capabilities to promote interoperability

Coordinate Joint Standards and Requirements with

Combatant Commanders, Services, Agencies, and

Multinational Mission Partners

• Examples of Joint Capability Development: US & Coalition Blue Force Tracking & Combat ID Joint Precision Air Drop System (JPADS) Machine Foreign Language Translation

Joint Capability Development

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Interoperable from the Outset

Capability Provided

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C2 Support for Decision-Making

“Leader-Centric… Net-Enabled”

What this is about… Command and Control – fundamentally a human endeavor Operational art – beyond the science Assured information that builds knowledge and speeds decision-making Reliable systems and tested processes Distributed information; relevant knowledge – allowing decentralized execution Decision cycles inside the enemy’s ability to adapt

Elements of the C2 Vision, DoD C2 Strategic and Implementation Plan

• Coherent• Unambiguous

• Collaborative• Coordinated

• Net-Enabled Ops• Technical Integration

• JFC & JTF HQ• Emphasize Human Dimension

StrengthenedPartnerships Policy

Joint / CoalitionIntegration

Training &Education

Leader-centric… network-enabled

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Capability Portfolio Management“Focus on capability-based planning and management efforts to better enable strategic choice and improve ability to make capability tradeoffs”

--Quadrennial Defense Review ’06

• Four initial capability areas selected:

– Command and Control (C2)

– Net-Centric Operations (NC)

– Battlespace Awareness (BA)

– Logistics (L)

• C2 CPM Goals– Improve interoperability and maximize effectiveness– Minimize capability redundancies & gaps– Harmonize DoD’s decision support processes for requirements, acquisition and programming of C2 capability solutions

• USJFCOM Commander is DoD’s Military Lead for C2 CPM – Joint Capability Developer delegated his C2 CPM execution arm

Assess, Coordinate, Manage & Integrate

RequirementsPPBE

Acquisition

JCM

PPBE

JCM

PPBE

CPM

PPBE

JCM

PPBE

JCM

PPBE

CPM

PPBE

JCM

PPBE

JCM

PPBE

CPM

PPBE

JCM

PPBE

JCM

Programming$

CPM

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Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability

• Holistic approach to improving Joint Fires– Target Acquisition– Command and Control– Firing Systems– Enhance combat effectiveness while reducing

fratricide and collateral damage

• Capability Improvements– Joint Tactics, Techniques & Procedures development– Doctrine refinement– Interoperability recommendations

– Joint Training Plan recommendations – Feedback to exercise participants

• Training Improvements

Improving Joint fires…reducing fratricide and collateral damage

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JCAS Digital Data Exchange Standard

• Reduced fratricide potential– Fewer human errors associated with manually copying 9-line data– Increased situational awareness (SA) of friendly force positions– Higher percentage of first-run target ID

• Reduced Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) workload– Software automation allows rapid, accurate creation and storing of

multiple digital 9-lines

• Increased effectiveness– Digital collaboration reduces time required to build shared SA– Service more targets within same time frame

Task: Coordinate & synchronize implementation strategy - influence POM 10Task: Coordinate & synchronize implementation strategy - influence POM 10

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Digitally-Aided CAS Interoperability – Today

AFAPD = Air Force Applications Program DevelopmentAFATDS = Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System ASOC = Air Support Operations CenterCoT = Cursor-on-Target (Transport Layer/Header)

JSOTF =Joint Special Operations Task ForceMTS = Marine Tactical SystemSADL = Situational Awareness Data LinkSINGCARS = Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System

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Digitally-Aided CAS Way AheadDigitally-Aided CAS Way Ahead

• JCAS Executive Steering Committee endorsed Variable Message Format (VMF) over Combat Net Radio (CNR) as near-term digitally-aided CAS standard

• Establish DoD-level Configuration Control Board

• Link16, Situational Awareness Data Link (SADL) and Air Force Applications Program Development (AFAPD) remain important tools for the JTAC and CAS community

– Key Tenet = “Do No Harm to the Warfighter”

• USAF’s ASOC and Objective Gateway programs will allow players to share certain information, mainly target coordinates and elevation, across these standards

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Digitally-Aided CAS Interoperability – 2012

AFAPD = Air Force Applications Program DevelopmentAFATDS = Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System ASOC = Air Support Operations CenterCoT = Cursor-on-Target (Transport Layer/Header)

DASC = Direct Air Support CenterJSOTF =Joint Special Operations Task ForceSADL = Situational Awareness Data LinkVMF = Variable Message Format (Parser/Transport Layer/Header)

Unclassified

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Digitally-Aided CAS Interoperability – 2013/14

DASC = Direct Air Support Center

JFO = Joint Fires Observer

JETS = Joint Effects Targeting System

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JTAC Accredited Schoolhouses

EWTGPAC

SOTACC

NSAWC

6CTS/AGOSEWTGLANT

GBR

NOR

NLD

CAN

USAFE AGOS

POL

FRA HUN

AUS

SWE

LVA

LTU

Initial Accreditation: GrandfatheredInitial Accreditation: JTAC Stan TeamInitial Accreditation: In ProgressInitial Accreditation: Talks in Progress

Annual US JTAC Production

Dec 2005 516

Present 719

Feb 2005 354

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Recap

USJFCOM J8, Joint Capability Developer

• Improving the way DoD…– Executes capabilities-based management

– Makes informed strategic investment decisions

– Brings Joint Warfighter advocacy to C2

– Develops, tests, and delivers synchronized C2

– Fields comprehensive, integrated capability

“Interoperable from the outset”

Evolutionary in its development . . . . .Transformational in its impact

Evolutionary in its development . . . . .Transformational in its impact

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Questions?Questions?

Jointness, like freedom, is not a natural state.