Joint Warfighting
Abstract
The OSD Joint Warfighting Program (JWP) account supports two related activities supporting development of the Department's joint warfighting capabilities. The Joint Advanced Warfighting Program (JAWP) segment assesses joint operations and geo-socio-political environments pertinent to joint operations enabling Defense officials to understand capability gaps and identify potential solutions. The findings of these investigative analyses frequently explore joint capability development via experiments and prototype demonstrations. The JAWP serves an essential, expert, and independent feedback role in identifying, exploring and evaluating breakthrough war fighting capabilities. JAWP resources underwrite a small dedicated staff of civilian analysts (currently hosted by the Institute for Defense Analysis - IDA) paired with a military staff of field-grade military operations researchers. A Board of Directors (JAWP BoD) exerts topic selection and oversight of JAWP activities. The BOD includes senior representatives from DDR&E (Joint Operations Support), Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy) and the Joint Staff. JAWP analyses serve as a basis for formulation and assessment of advanced concepts and capabilities, identifying enabling technologies and operational integration options for the Department. Resultant concepts drive changes in the doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, personnel, and facilities (DOTMLPF) of the Services and Combatant Commanders (COCOMs). The balance of JWP resources are dedicated to supporting joint commands with analytic resources to translate capability gap assessments into actionable military needs statements, identification of candidate solutions via experimentation, translation of solution concepts into field demonstrations, and remedy of joint capability gaps in partnership with Defense agents for doctrine changes and technology development. JWP resources dedicated to direct support joint commands provides analytic expertise not normally allocated via formal staffing billets. In this activity, JWP underwrites small grants to invigorate employment of experimentation and analysis, to formulate strategies to resolve joint capability gaps, and to stimulate participation in the Department enterprises for joint experimentation and joint capability development. Director, Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E) exercises oversight of JWP resources.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- P727_0603727D8Z_3_0400_PB_2012
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