Joint Systems Integration

Abstract

In support of the Chairman’s responsibility for the assessment of the capability and adequacy of United States forces to successfully execute the national military strategy the Joint Systems Integration (JSI) Program Element provides mission funding for the Joint Staff J6 C4 Assessments Division (C4AD). C4AD conducts interoperability assessments and develops solutions/recommendations to improve integration of Service, Defense Agency, and coalition systems. C4AD's Persistent Command and Control Environment replicates an operational environment and provides Combatant Commands, Services, Agencies and Coalition partners at the joint force headquarters level, a laboratory and assessment venue for the warfighter and capability developer to identify and solve interoperability and integration issues with current and near-term joint and coalition capabilities. With this capability, C4AD assesses system of systems interoperability, operational capability, procedural compliance and technical suitability of emerging and existing systems and programs to confirm readiness for deployment. By establishing ground truth for interoperability and suggesting remedies for demonstrated shortfalls, C4AD is an enabler for the Chairman’s priorities to: pioneer new ways to combine and employ emergent capabilities, drive Jointness deeper, sooner in capability development, move quickly toward Joint information and simulation networks that support secure and agile command and control, expand the envelope of interagency and international cooperation, and promote multilateral security approaches and architectures.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2014
Source ID
0604787J_4_0400_PB_2014
Change Summary Explanation
Additional resources allocated to support mission requirements that transitioned to the Joint Staff after U.S. Joint Forces Command disestablishment.
Service Agency Name
The Joint Staff

Entities

Organizations

  • Joint Chiefs of Staff

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Cooperation
  • Deployment
  • Environment
  • Interoperability
  • Prototypes
  • System Of Systems
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Military Engineering.

Technology Areas

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

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