Joint Warfighting Program

Abstract

The Joint Warfighting Program (JWP) supports the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, ASD(A)) responsibilities for acquisition and portfolio management analysis. These efforts include independent analyses, studies, limited scope experiments, wargaming, and partnerships with joint customers that define joint capability gaps and develop credible requirements for follow-on acquisition efforts. It synchronizes acquisition processes with corresponding acquisition requirements. These analyses and assessments deliver independent perspectives on ways to align investments and potential solutions for capability gaps created by future warfighting environments and emerging threats. JWP enables portfolio management though these assessments in order to promote potential acquisition remedies to these critical capability gaps. JWP supports efforts to: synchronize the acquisition processes with corresponding acquisition requirements to enable acquisition portfolio management; conduct mission thread analysis; define joint capability gaps and develop credible requirements for follow-on acquisition efforts; deliver independent perspectives on ways to align investments and potential solutions for capability gaps created by evolving threats; seize opportunities to partner with joint customers on projects that inform technology and acquisition decisions; and implement analytic projects on key joint warfighting mission areas and challenges.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2020
Source ID
0603727D8Z_3_0400_PB_2020
Change Summary Explanation
Joint Warfighting Program decrease by $5.5M FY20-24 due to reorganization decisions.
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
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Best Practices
  • Command And Control
  • Cyber Threats
  • Delphi Method
  • Earth Orbits
  • Emerging Threats
  • Engineering
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • National Security
  • Risk Management
  • Situational Awareness
  • Software Development
  • Space Systems
  • Supply Chain
  • Systems Engineering
  • Vulnerability

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

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