Joint Warfighting Program

Abstract

The Joint Warfighting Program (JWP) is a pivotal resource that synchronizes two Department-wide domains, military requirements and acquisition, with shared analyses and actionable assessments. JWP supports analyses for customers including joint command staffs, the Joint Staff, and OSD elements responsible for oversight of Components equipping forces for joint missions. The account underwrites limited-scope analyses, experiments, and partnerships that define joint capability gaps and develop actionable requirements for follow-on acquisition efforts. This program element plays a major role in portfolio assessments aiming to identify critical gaps between Service-generated capabilities and suggest affordable solutions. JWP funds venues for demonstration of emergent technology-based prototypes that enable joint customers to draft requirements based on realistic understanding of feasible solutions. JWP specifically aims to assist joint-end-users by analyses that identify essential capability improvements as actionable joint military needs expressed as specific Key Performance Parameters (KKPs) and Key System Attributes (KSAs). These analyses and assessments deliver independent perspectives on ways to align Service and Agency investments and potential solutions for capability gaps created by evolving threats not aligned to single Component missions. Though a relatively modest program, JWP is consistently cited by joint combatant commanders’ staffs as the seminal infusion of funding that spawned insightful demonstrations, theater centers of excellence, mission essential capability modifications and strategic concepts. JWP also underwrites staff analyses in the Acquisition, Technology & Logistics staff of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). Working with Service, OSD and joint command counterparts, the AT&L staff performs portfolio assessments focusing on warfighting environments ten to twenty years ahead. 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 support Mission Area Portfolio Assessments (MAPA), and the development of tools supporting joint analytic efforts. The balance of JWP funds contributes resources to examination of potential remedies for joint mission capability gaps. These early assessments of potential capability gap solutions can accelerate engineering development, subsequent field experiments, and capability demonstrations in field conditions. This segment of JWP often represents the first effort to define alternative solutions across the range of Doctrine, Organization, Training, Material, Leadership and Personnel-Facilities. The resources sustain a small segment of civilian operation research analysis (currently hosted by the Institute for Defense Analysis – IDA and the Naval Postgraduate School - NPS). Administered by the Joint Operations Support (JOS) division within OSD’s AT&L organization, JOS works closely and continuously with joint customers around the world. Analytic project selection is undertaken in consultation with the OSD staffs serving AT&L and Policy and with elements of the Joint Staff.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2016
Source ID
0603727D8Z_3_0400_PB_2016
Change Summary Explanation
FY 2016 baseline adjustments to support emergent priorities in the Department.
Service Agency Name
Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Case Studies
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Data Acquisition
  • Delphi Method
  • Demonstrations
  • Doctrine
  • Emerging Technology
  • Employment
  • Engineering
  • Field Conditions
  • Homeland Security
  • Military Requirements
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Pacific Command

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Military Logistics and Supply Chain Management

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