USSOUTHCOM deputy commander talks about JTF-Haiti experience at JECC conference
Posted by Jacob Boyer in joint enabling capabilities, multinational on September 1st, 2010
Army Lt. Gen. Ken Keen, U.S. Southern Command’s deputy commander, discussed his experience standing up Joint Task Force-Haiti in the wake of that country’s massive earthquake during his keynote address Tuesday at the Joint Force Enabler Conference in Portsmouth, Va. The conference, sponsored by USJFCOM’s Joint Enabling Capabilities Command, ends Thursday. Click here to read coverage of the event from JECC’s Whitney Williams.
New JKO course launches
Posted by jlecappelain in irregular warfare, training on September 1st, 2010
A new Joint Knowledge Online course designed in cooperation with the Joint Irregular Warfare Center allows warfighters, civilians and contractors to learn about the nature of counterinsurgency.
The distance learning course allows users to interact with the course, to gain an understanding of COIN. Marty Vozzo, JKO deputy program manager, said that the training would benefit users at all levels.
“We view this as part of the joint training enterprise, where civil servants, contractors and service members, from E-1 to O-10, can get the important training that fits with the secretary of Defense’s training priorities.”
To read more about the new COIN course, click here.
You can also learn more about JKO by visiting their fact page here.(http://www.jfcom.mil/about/fact_jdl.htm)
Salute to Veterans tix become available Sept. 25
Posted by Jacob Boyer in admin on August 26th, 2010
Tickets for this year’s USJFCOM-sponsored “Salute to Veterans Concert, which will be held Nov. 6 at Christopher Newport University’s Ferguson Center for the Arts, will be available starting Sept. 25. For more, read here.
Talking joint medicine with the command surgeon
Posted by Jacob Boyer in joint enabling capabilities, joint force provision, multinational, training on August 19th, 2010
Navy Rear Adm. Michael H. Mittelman recently became only the second Navy Medical Service Corps officer to earn a second star and is preparing to leave USJFCOM for U.S. Pacific Command at the end of August after nearly two years serving dual roles here and as Allied Command Transformation’s chief medical adviser. I recently had the opportunity to chat with the admiral about his time here, the challenges facing his replacement and his thoughts on the present and future of joint medicine on the battlefield. Read more here.
EC 10: That’s a wrap
Posted by jlecappelain in intelligence, multinational, surveillance and reconnaissance on August 15th, 2010
After two long weeks, the team and I have gone our separate ways: MC2 Cassatt back to San Diego and Staff Sgt. Valentine and I back to the Virginia humidity.
Empire Challenge 10 was an interesting experience. It’s one thing to read about all these technologies, but seeing them working and communicating really help explain what it is we are doing here. It also showed me some things that will definitely benefit my Army brothers in future when they deploy.
We hope you’ve enjoyed our coverage of the event and I’m sure next year will be even bigger. An overview story about the event and its conclusion is up now. Check it out, there’s a lot of great information inside.
Thanks again for following along!
JECC sends aid to flood ravaged Pakistan
Posted by Jacob Boyer in joint enabling capabilities, multinational on August 13th, 2010
USJFCOM’s Joint Enabling Capabilities Command is sending its personnel to Pakistan to aid relief efforts in the wake of massive flooding in recent weeks. Roughly 30 specialists from the command’s elements left Thursday and today. JECC’s Whitney Williams has more here.
EC 10: Valiant Angel hits the mark
Posted by jlecappelain in intelligence, multinational, surveillance and reconnaissance on August 13th, 2010
As EC 10 winds down, the team and I traveled to visit USJFCOM’s Valiant Angel. Valiant Angel is a program being executed by the command’s Intelligence Directorate that improves access to and movement of large data files, including FMV and wide-area surveillance data across existing networks to warfighters at the tactical edge.
Andrew “AJ” Forysiak, Valiant Angel deputy program manager, talked to us about what Valiant Angel’s role in EC 10 is.
Valiant Angel is serving as the baseline architecture for moving FMV in this demonstration. We’re trying to replicate the environment in theater and share FMV with our coalition partners; Valiant Angel is performing that role.
To learn more about Valiant Angel, click here.
Experiment looks into distributed operations
Posted by Jacob Boyer in intelligence, irregular warfare, joint experimentation, multinational, surveillance and reconnaissance on August 12th, 2010
The Joint Distributed Operations Project, a USJFCOM Joint Concept Development and Experimentation Directorate-led look into operations conducted over wide geographical areas, finished its final experimentation phase two weeks ago with a fully manned joint task force headquarters testing the project’s potential solutions and best practices to their breaking points. Read more here.
EC 10: More DV day photos
Posted by jlecappelain in intelligence, multinational, surveillance and reconnaissance on August 12th, 2010
The latest from Air Force Staff Sgt. Vanessa Valentine:
Today, I took pictures of the second distinguished visitor day here at EC10. Among the visitors was Army Lt. Gen. Keith M. Huber, acting
commander of U.S. Joint Forces Command. Here’s the link to the photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/usjfcom/
EC 10: DV Day 1 photos
Posted by jlecappelain in intelligence, multinational, surveillance and reconnaissance on August 10th, 2010
The latest from Air Force Staff Sgt. Vanessa Valentine.
Today, MC2 Cassatt and I filmed day 1 of distinguished visitors touring the various EC10 sites. I just posted some of today’s photos on Flickr. More DVs will be visiting tomorow, so check back again for day 2 pics. Here’s the link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/usjfcom/sets/72157624699282490/
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- Army Lt. Gen. Ken Keen discusses his time in Haiti at the Joint Force Enabler Conference. http://bit.ly/cW9l85
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