Assessing the Adequacy of Coverage of Joint Command and Control in the Capstone Concept for Joint Operations

Abstract

The Joint Staff, J7 Joint Experimentation, Transformation, and Concepts Division asked the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) Joint Advanced Warfighting Program (JAWP) to evaluate how adequately the Capstone Concept for Joint Operations (CCJO) covers joint command and control (JC2). The CCJO heads the family of joint operations concepts (JOpsC) that describe how joint forces are expected to operate across the range of military operations in 2012-2025. Its purpose is to lead force development and employment primarily by providing a broad description of how the future joint force will operate. The IDA study team first evaluated the CCJO itself relative to JC2. The team then reviewed current doctrine, operations, planning, and activities with JC2 content -- the Universal Joint Task List (UJTL), Multi-Service Force Deployment (MSFD) Scenarios, wargames, and experiments -- for possible insight that might inform the next revision of the CCJO. These sources proved generally unhelpful. The study team then examined advanced theoretical work, especially the OSD Command and Control Research Program (CCRP), for insight. This proved very useful and provided a theoretical framework of possible future JC2. Next the team reviewed concepts subordinate to the CCJO that have JC2 content, particularly the C2 functional and integrating concepts. Both were consistent with the CCRP framework and were conceptually ahead of the CCJO. Finally, the team examined selected Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency C2 work and activities at JFCOM. Both reinforced the correctness of the direction reflected in the CCRP and the subordinate JC2 concepts. In answering four specific sponsor-directed questions related to doctrinal command structures, capability gaps, treatment of C2 in the CCJO, and subordinate C2 concepts, the study team reached four conclusions indicating that greater clarity regarding future JC2 is needed in the CCJO.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA475446

Entities

People

  • Lawrence B. Morton
  • Waldo D. Freeman

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combat Operations
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Employment
  • Information Systems
  • Interagency Coordination
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Central Command
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

Technology Areas

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