Joint Warfighting

Abstract

The OSD Joint Warfighting Program (JWP) account supports two related activities supporting the Department's Joint Experimentation. The Joint Advanced Warfighting Program (JAWP) captures lessons learned and assessments from contingency operations to inform resource allocation, and Combatant Command Experimentation Cells which enable Combatant Commands to examine operational needs and capability gap alternatives via limited objective experiments and concept development. The Joint Advanced Warfighting Program (JAWP) is supported by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Policy and AT&L, with the continuing concurrence of the Joint Staff (J7) to serve as a catalyst for critical analysis and development of innovative concepts on an accelerated basis. The JAWP provides an independent capability for joint warfare analysis and bridges operational lessons learned in the Combatant Commands with joint experimentation conducted at US Joint Forces Command and the other Combatant Commands. This program fuses a team of civilian operational analysis experts with mid-grade and senior military officers to provide first-hand research into topics of pivotal importance to current and future joint campaigns. These analyses serve as a basis for formulation and assessment of advanced concepts and capabilities, identifying enabling technologies and operational integration options for the Department. Resultant concepts drive changes in the doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, personnel, and facilities (DOTMLPF) of the Services. The JAWP serves an essential, expert, and independent feedback role in identifying, exploring and evaluating breakthrough war fighting capabilities. It captures and builds on lessons learned from joint contingency operations and earlier joint and Service experimentation. From that foundation, it identifies and helps formulate advanced joint concepts, explores their effectiveness by recommending design and conduct of joint experiments, and helps streamline implementation processes. Its work complements and supports the activities of Joint Forces Command, the Joint Staff, CoComs and OSD. The Combatant Command Experimentation Cells activity invigorates Combatant Command staffs participation in joint experimentation as a fundamental element of joint capability development. In this activity, JWP underwrites small grants to joint Combatant Comands to invigorate employment of experimentation and analyses, and stimulate participation in the larger Joint Experimentation Enterprise. This activity assists CoComs to specify operational needs and examine capability gap alternatives. Through this activity, JWP also directly funds CoComs specific operational needs and examines capability gap alternatives. The process assesses military contingency operations and formulates advanced joint concepts to be tested and refined via experiments, doctrine development, and demonstrations. The JWP directly enfranchises the CoComs to employ capabilities for mission needs analysis and joint experimentation. It aims to reinvigorate CoCom staff capabilities to employ rigorous analysis and experimentation methodologies in support of their specific mission assignments. By empowering CoCom staffs to critically assess their own needs and examine viable capability gap solutions, the JWP aims to focus larger research and development investments, like Joint Experimentation and Joint Capability Technology Demonstrations to specific warfighter requirements. The JWP enables joint commanders to conduct limited objective experiments in theater that explore capability gaps and potential capability solutions unique to their mission set. The JWP is intended to be seed funding encouraging leveraged employment of existing defense analysis and experimentation infrastructure such as networked access to the centralized Joint Futures Laboratory facilities at U.S. Joint Forces Command. This approach minimizes redundant investment, strengthens the relevance of defense analysis and experimentation projects, and diversifies the range of solutions considered for pursuit by the department.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2011
Source ID
0603727D8Z_3_0400_PB_2011
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Office of Secretary Of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Command And Control
  • Crisis Management
  • Demonstrations
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Homeland Defense
  • Investments
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Education
  • Military Science
  • Security
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • Warfare

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  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

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