Joint Warfighting Program

Abstract

The OSD Joint Warfighting Program (JWP) account supports two related activities supporting development of the Department's joint warfighting capabilities. In anticipation of constrained military budgets, there will be increased demand for JWP support as Combatant Commanders will be under pressure to refine their requests for supplementary capabilities. The Joint Advanced Warfighting Program (JAWP) segment provides innovative, responsive and timely analytic support on joint capability development serving the needs of Combatant Commanders. It provides an independent source to examine potential remedies for mission capability gapsand can establish a framework for subsequent field experiments, capability demonstrations or accelerated acquisition. JAWP often represents the first effort to define alternative solutions across the range of Doctrine, Organization, Training, Material, Leadership and Personnel-Facilities. JAWP resources underwrite a small dedicated staff of civilian military operation research analysts (currently hosted by the Institute for Defense Analysis - IDA). Administered by the Joint Operations Support cell within OSD/AT&L, the JAWP conducts an annual call for inputs from Combantant Command staffs elements that formulate Capability Gap assessments and technology based initiatives . Project selection is undertaken in consulatation with the OSD staffs serving AT&L and Policy and with lements of the Joint Staff. The balance of JWP resources are dedicated to direct support of joint commands with analytic resources to translate capability gap assessments into actionable military needs statements, identification of candidate solutions via experimentation, translation of solution concepts into field demonstrations, and remedy of joint capability gaps in partnership with Defense agents for doctrine changes and technology development. JWP resources dedicated to direct support joint commands provides analytic expertise not normally allocated via formal staffing billets. In this activity, JWP underwrites small grants to invigorate employment of experimentation and analysis, to formulate strategies to resolve joint capability gaps, and to stimulate participation in the Department enterprises for joint experimentation and joint capability development. JWP resources also research and development of tools supporting joint commander analytic efforts.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2013
Source ID
0603727D8Z_3_0400_PB_2013
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Office of Secretary Of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Budgets
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Demonstrations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Doctrine
  • Employment
  • Leadership
  • Lessons Learned
  • Materials
  • Military Budgets
  • Military Operations
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Unified Combatant Commands

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

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