Joint Experimentation

Abstract

The Joint Experimentation (JE) Program Element provides funding for the Department’s Joint Concept Development & Experimentation (JCD&E) effort, carried out by the JCD&E Community. The JCD&E Community is comprised of the Combatant Commands, Services, the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Joint Staff, the National Guard Bureau (NGB), the United States Coast Guard (USCG) and several Defense agencies. Intra-government agencies and coalition partners often participate in JCD&E processes and projects. The Director for Joint Force Development (DJ-7) leads the joint force development efforts on behalf of the Chairman. The J-7 staff coordinates all efforts with respect to the JCD&E Community. To ensure the program focuses on needs of the warfighters, JCD&E initiatives originate from an annual call for nominations from combatant commands and Services, and from assessment of Combatant Command identified critical warfighting capability gaps articulated in the Comprehensive Joint Assessment (CJA). JCD&E project submissions undergo preliminary analysis by the JCD&E Community to confirm suitability for experimentation and, where feasible, to associate closely related subjects for economy of effort. Preliminary analysis also confirms alignment to the Chairman’s priorities for developing Joint Force 2020 and Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) strategic priority areas. The resulting annual list of project submissions includes concepts for development and experimentation efforts eligible for design and execution. These efforts are prioritized and approved by the Combatant Command and Service members of the Synchronization Board and forwarded to the Joint Capabilities Board (JCB)/Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) for approval. JCD&E activities examine potential solutions for combatant command operational needs emphasizing non-materiel solutions through targeted Doctrine, Organizational, Training, Leadership and Education, Personnel, Facilities, and Policy (DOT_LPF-P) improvements. JCD&E tackles joint concept and capability issues demanding sophisticated analysis, innovative design and complex execution. JCD&E projects address topics that would prove difficult for individual combatant commands and Services to capture in the context of their immediate operational and force generation responsibilities. In partnership with the combatant commands and Services, JCD&E mitigates operational risk by establishing procedural models to conduct emergent concepts that are not yet instantiated in conventional force generation. The results are briefed to Functional Capability Boards (FCB) who integrate solutions into their functional investment plans. Funding will be distributed to meet requirements, retaining the flexibility to develop field-sustainable joint capabilities that may be required to meet future, unforeseen challenges.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2014
Source ID
0603828J_3_0400_PB_2014
Change Summary Explanation
The Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff has directed the J7 to transform the Joint Experimentation program. The reduction in funding between FY2013 and FY2014 is part of the transformation from Joint Experimentation to a Joint Assessment program. FY2014 efforts will focus on supporting the President’s “Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership Priorities for the 21st Century Defense” with emphasis on implementing the Joint Operational Access Concept, and building Joint Force 2020 as described in the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Capstone Concept for Joint Operations. Specific work will focus on concepts, and gap analysis and the resultant recommended non-materiel solutions that will improve current and future joint force capability including operating in anti-access and area denial environments, joint command & control, intercontinental missile defense, counterterrorism, operations in space, and defeating threats in all domains, including cyber.
Service Agency Name
The Joint Staff

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Organizations

  • Joint Chiefs of Staff

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Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Area Denial
  • Coast Guard
  • Communities
  • Community Of Practice
  • Defense Planning
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Gap Analysis
  • Leadership
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Science
  • National Guard
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

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  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

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