Future Joint Force Development
Abstract
The Joint Staff Analytical Support (JSAS) program supports the Chairman’s Title 10 responsibility for the analytical support, management and development of future-based joint concepts. These concepts include concepts of operations and employment that advance Joint Force operational effectiveness and enable the introduction and incorporation of new capabilities. The Joint Concepts program supports the Chairman's responsibility to express a vision for the future joint force; addressing operational problems on a 20-year horizon; identifying joint force development and design implications; and identifying capabilities required to mitigate and solve future joint warfighting gaps. The goal is to enable investment decisions balancing near and long term risk. Threat-informed joint concepts drive capability development and promote horizontal integration for force development and design across the Services, Combatant Commands, Defense agencies, OSD and Joint Staff. Key deliverables include: Family of Joint Concepts (FOJC): Based on the National Military Strategy (NMS) and providing operational and joint functional approaches to future adversary based challenges or opportunities. These concepts prioritize Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and Countering Violent Extremist Organizations (hereafter referred to as the 2+3). The FOJC drives capability development and alternative approaches to operating in support of a globally integrated force benchmarked against current and long-term pacing threats. The FOJC includes the Capstone Concept for Joint Operations, Joint Warfighting Concept, Joint Operating Concepts for the 2+3 challenges, Joint Supporting Concepts that address joint warfighting functions, Concepts of Operation and Concepts of Employment. Capstone Concept for Joint Operations (CCJO): Provides the Chairman's vision for future joint operations and establishes aim points for the development of the future Joint Force. The key theme is globally integrated operations and directs joint concept driven, threat-informed capability to regain competitive advantage. Joint Warfighting Concept (JWC): Identifies innovative and alternative approaches and design options for the employment of the Joint Force out to 2030. Joint Operating Concepts: Describe new ways of operating and associated capability requirements to address the 2+3 threat out fifteen years into the future. Concepts of Operations (CONOPS): Describe how the actions of the joint force components and supporting organizations are integrated, synchronized, and phased to accomplish a specific mission or function within the construct of a future scenario. CONOPS support evaluation of new ways of operating, future force posture mix, advanced capabilities, and authorities in exercises, wargames, and experiments. Concepts of Employment (CONEMPS): Describe, in broad terms, the application of specific technology, process, weapon system, or unit to perform a particular task or procedure. They are the most specific of all military concepts and contain a level of guidance sufficient to inform the establishment of programmatic requirements. CONEMPS’ focus on the cross-domain employment of capabilities and techniques in areas like space, cyberspace, and the electro-magnetic spectrum (EMS) to enable joint information advantage. Joint Operating Environment (JOE) and the Gamechangers report: Developed in partnership with DIA, this report describes the future security environment and projects the implications of change for the Joint Force. The documents describe the circumstances that may alter the security environment and explores how the intersection and interaction of these changes might impact the character of war in the future. They provide a framework to think about the full range of Joint Force missions and how they may evolve over time in order to support development of threat-based future Joint concepts and concepts of operations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- P001_0204571J_6_0400_PB_2021
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