Future Joint Force Headquarters

Abstract

To prepare for contingencies where rapid response is essential, the Department of Defense must establish joint command and control capable of deploying quickly and operating with full effectiveness upon arrival. In 1999, the JAWP began development of an operational concept for a Joint Strike Force. Redesigning an operational-level headquarters for a joint task force (JTF) was part of this effort and is the subject of this paper. The JAWP team developed a future joint force headquarters (JFHQ) model to help improve the decision-making capabilities of the JTF commander and his staff. It is functionally designed around the flow of information, a network-centric design that takes advantage of information technologies to make quicker and better informed decisions. Today s information technologies already allow the future JFHQ to conduct split-based operations using a Fixed Headquarters echelon, a Deployable Headquarters echelon, and reach-back technologies such as secure communications, collaborative planning tools, and video teleconference. Because it is not a large, forward-deployed headquarters, the future JFHQ reduces sustainment and force protection requirements in the theater, and frees critical mobility assets to better support operational needs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA400531

Entities

People

  • J. S. Schisser

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combat Operations
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Lessons Learned
  • Logistics
  • Military Operations
  • Organizational Structure
  • Psychological Operations
  • Systems Engineering
  • Task Forces
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • 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