Joint Futures Group
Abstract
The Joint Futures Group (JFG) is a unique DoD team specifically focused on identifying the next big challenges or opportunities for the joint force and Combatant Commanders that are not being addressed elsewhere in DoD. It is a unique entity within DoD that utilize analytic and research processes integrates doctoral level future thinking and extrapolates likely future operational environments within which innovative ideas about challenges and military implications for the Department of Defense are generated. The JFG integrates the results of its “futures” research into downstream processes for concept and development, experimentation scenarios, capabilities definition, doctrine, and inclusion in the majority of professional military education (PME). Their unclassified professionally developed products are globally disseminated and inform every Service, Combatant Command and all of our multinational partners. "We must focus concept development on the specific problems identified in the Joint Operating Environment or on identified gaps in doctrine…" – General Mattis The objective of the JFG is to provide a vision of the future and support identification and articulation of joint force implications, through collection, analysis, synthesis, dissemination of the world's strategic and international relations futures. The current means of articulation is the Joint Operating Environment (JOE) report. Unlike other classified DIA or JCS “future focused” documents the unclassified JOE provides the foundational problem statement for the CJCS’s Capstone Concept for Joint Operations (CCJO), and is intended to inform the development of Joint Operating Concepts and Joint Integrating Concepts, as well as to provide a framework for Combatant Command and Service LOEs and experiments through its vision of the future. The JOE has been downloaded globally well over two million times in the past two years and is a key Combatant Command, Service and CJCS reference document on future challenges and opportunities. Support to the DoD analytical agenda consists of improving and refining the classified Integrated Security Contexts (ISCs). This dedicated analytical support ensures that the ISCs reflect a balanced and plausible set of future warfare challenges.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- 2caedb9534658d09b6434808a0898391
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