Joint Experimentation

Abstract

The Joint Experimentation (JE) Program Element (PE) (0603828D8Z) provides funding for the Department’s Joint Experimentation program—the Department’s primary effort for exploring non-materiel solutions to cover joint capability gaps in lieu of materiel solutions requiring new acquisition programs. Consistent with strategic guidance, the JE program targets DoD’s highest priority joint capability gaps. The intent of the JE program is to enable trained, ready and adaptable joint forces, and improve capabilities of the current and future joint force. The JE program focuses on producing new conceptual approaches and proposed solutions to combatant command and Service defined problems through the development of actionable joint force improvement recommendations in the critical considerations of joint doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, facilities, and policy (DOTMLPF-P). The JE program primarily benefits combatant commanders and Services, and provides collateral benefits to DoD Agencies and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). JE routinely provides indirect benefit to interagency and multinational partners and international organizations with whom the US participates during coalition operations. The JE Program is carried out by the JCD&E community, comprised of all combatant commands, the Services, the National Guard Bureau, the Joint Staff, OSD, and several DoD agencies. The Joint Staff leads the JCD&E community. Other participants in JE activities include a broad range of interagency partners as well as multinational, academic, and private sector agencies. The Assistant Secretary of Defense, Research & Engineering (ASD(R&E)) within OSD helps provides oversight to ensure alignment with strategic guidance. Flexibility is maintained in the JE Program to address emergent requirements identified by DoD leadership. Joint experimentation is complementary to Service experimentation. Where possible, the JCD&E community leverages Service experimentation to address joint challenges. Joint/Service experimentation is coordinated within the JCD&E community to cover gaps and pursue efficiency, and the results are shared throughout the community. projects are categorized by functional joint capability areas (JCAs) which help enable already-established functional capability boards to rigorously vet JE recommendations among subject matter matters throughout the joint community before those recommendations are approved by the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC). For FY12, these categories include Battlespace Awareness, Logistics, Building Partnerships, Command and Control, Force Application, Net-Centric and Protection.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2014
Source ID
0603828D8Z_3_0400_PB_2014
Change Summary Explanation
N/A
Service Agency Name
Office of Secretary Of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Area Denial
  • Best Practices
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Command And Control
  • Command Centers
  • Communities
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Defense Planning
  • Distance Learning
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Emerging Technology
  • Maritime Domain Awareness
  • Military Science
  • Security
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control

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