Joint Warfighting Program

Abstract

The level of resourcing for the Joint Warfighting Program (JWP) program reflects iterative reductions from efficiencies and budget reductions, which reduces the Department's ability to develop flexible responsive solutions to emerging war fighter needs. The OSD JWP account underwrites 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 to define their capability requirements, and identify potential solution options. The Joint Advanced Warfighting Program (JAWP) segment provides innovative and responsive analytic support on joint capability development serving the needs of joint capability clients. It provides an independent source to examine potential remedies for mission capability gaps and can establish a framework for accelerated acquisition, subsequent field experiments, and capability demonstrations. JAWP often represents the first effort to define alternative solutions across the range of Doctrine, Organization, Training, Material, Leadership and Personnel-Facilities. JAWP resources sustain a small dedicated staff of civilian 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 Combatant Command staffs elements that formulate Capability Gap assessments and technology based initiatives. Project selection is undertaken in consultation with the OSD staffs serving AT&L and Policy and with elements of the Joint Staff. The balance of JWP resources are dedicated to analytic support for joint capabilities and joint customers. JWP provides a safety net for analytic support responding to emergent joint capability requirements and capability gaps. Typical projects funded with JWP include translation of 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, 2014
Source ID
0603727D8Z_3_0400_PB_2014
Change Summary Explanation
FY 2014 baseline adjustments support higher priorities in the departmant.
Service Agency Name
Office of Secretary Of Defense

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Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Budgets
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Defense Planning
  • Demonstrations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Doctrine
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • Materials
  • Military Budgets
  • Military Operations
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands

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  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Military Logistics and Supply Chain Management

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