| Future Joint Warfare - J7 Joint Force Development and Integration Division (JFDID) | "Supports and facilitates the transformation efforts of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by acting as the primary agent for developing and monitoring the implementation plans for joint experimentation and concept development. JETCD develops the Capstone Concept for Joint Operations (CCJO) and integrates subordinate Joint Operating Concepts, Joint Functional Concepts, and Joint Integrating Concepts." |
| Joint Chiefs of Staff | The Joint Chiefs of Staff official website. The Joint Chiefs of Staff consist of the Chairman, the Vice Chairman, the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Chief of Naval Operations, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the Commandant of the Marine Corps. |
| Joint Doctrine, Education and Training Electronic Information System (JDEIS) | NOTE: Requires CAC authentication for access.
"Replaces the Joint Electronic Library (JEL) as the primary authoritative source of joint doctrine, education, training and related information. JDEIS contains a searchable database of all approved Joint Doctrine Publications, the DOD Dictionary, and is the sole authoritative source for Universal Joint Task List (UJTL). PLEASE NOTE: You will need a Common Access Card (CAC) and a workstation with CAC reader, or a DOD-approved certificate installed on your workstation to access JDEIS." |
| Joint Forces Staff College (JFSC) | A component of the National Defense University, JFSC educates national security professionals to plan and execute joint, multinational, and interagency operations to instill a primary commitment to joint, multinational, and interagency teamwork, attitudes, and perspectives. |
| Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) | “The Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization shall focus (lead, advocate, coordinate) all Department of Defense actions in support of Combatant Commanders’ and their respective Joint Task Forces’ efforts to defeat improvised explosive devices as weapons of strategic influence.” |
| Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) | JITC provides a full-range of agile and cost-effective test, evaluation, and certification services to support rapid acquisition and fielding of global net-centric warfighting capabilities. |
| Joint Military Education, Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps Schools and Courses Online | A broad list of resources from Air University. |
| Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) | JPAC's mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting of all Americans missing as a result of the nation's past conflicts. |
| Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical & Biological Defense | The Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense develops, tests, acquires and delivers the world's most effective automated chemical biological detection systems, medical diagnostics and countermeasures. |
| Joint Rapid Acquisition | Joint Rapid Acquisition is a workspace that "addresses the assessment, validation, sourcing, resourcing, and fielding of operationally driven urgent, execution-year combatant commander needs. Generally, these needs can be considered as life- or combat-mission-threatening needs, based on unforeseen military requirements that must be resolved in days, weeks, or months." |
| Joint Strike Fighter | The F-35 Lightning II Program (a/k/a the Joint Strike Fighter Program) is the Department of Defense's focal point for defining affordable next generation strike aircraft weapon systems for the Navy, Air Force, Marines, and our allies. |
| Joint Task Force Civil Support | Joint Task Force Civil Support plans and integrates DoD support to the designated primary federal agency for domestic chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high yield explosive consequence management operations. |
| Joint Task Force Guantanamo | JTF Guantanamo conducts safe and humane care and custody of detained enemy combatants. |
| Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) | JTTFs are small cells of highly trained, locally based, passionately committed investigators, analysts, linguists, SWAT experts, and other specialists from dozens of U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is a multi-agency effort led by the Justice Department and FBI designed to combine the resources of federal, state, and local law enforcement. |
| Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems (J-UCAS) | The J-UCAS program is a DARPA/Air Force/Navy effort to demonstrate the technical feasibility, military utility and operational value for a networked system of high performance, weaponized unmanned air vehicles to effectively and affordably prosecute 21st century combat missions, including suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD), surveillance, and precision strike within the emerging global command and control architecture. |
| Lessons Learned on Collective Efficacy in Multinational Teams | PDF file. Includes a look at stability ops in Bosnia, by U. S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. |
| National Defense Intelligence College | National Defense Intelligence College is a center of excellence for educating military and civilian intelligence professionals and conducting and disseminating intelligence-related research. |
| U.S. African Command | On February 6, 2007, President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the creation of U.S. Africa Command. The decision was the culmination of a 10-year thought process within the Department of Defense (DoD) acknowledging the emerging strategic importance of Africa, and recognizing that peace and stability on the continent impacts not only Africans, but the interests of the U.S. and international community as well. |
| U.S. Central Command | US Central Command, working with national and international partners, promotes development and cooperation among nations, responds to crises, and deters or defeats state and transnational aggression in order to establish regional security and stability. |
| U.S. European Command | U.S. European Command is a unified combatant command, a command structure distinct from the military services -- Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. |
| U.S. Joint Forces Command | U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) is one of DoD’s nine combatant commands and has several key roles in transforming the U.S. military’s capabilities. |
| U.S. Northern Command | U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) was established Oct. 1, 2002 to provide command and control of DoD homeland defense efforts and to coordinate defense support of civil authorities. |
| U.S. Pacific Command | A joint combatant command directing, integrating and employing ready, credible military capability in peace, crisis or war to advance U.S. interests as an active partner in pursuit of a secure, prosperous and democratic Asia-Pacific community. |
| U.S. Southern Command | The United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) is responsible for providing contingency planning, operations, and security cooperation for Central and South America, the Caribbean (except U.S. commonwealths, territories, and possessions), Cuba and the Bahamas, and their territorial waters; as well as for the force protection of U.S. military resources at these locations. |
| U.S. Special Operations Command | U.S. Special Operations Command provides fully capable Special Operations Forces to defend the United States and its interests, as well as plan and synchronize operations against terrorist networks. |
| U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) | USSTRATCOM is a global integrator charged with the missions of space operations; information operations; integrated missile defense; global command & control; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; global strike; and strategic deterrence. |
| U.S. Transportation Command | USTRANSCOM is responsible for creating and implementing world-class global deployment and distribution solutions in support of the President, Secretary of Defense, and combatant commander-assigned missions. |