Archive for July, 2009

Sharing information in a crisis

Posted by Gregg Your in joint experimentation, multinational on July 30th, 2009

MC2 Katrina Parker takes us inside a limited objective experiment designed to look at sharing of information with interagency, multinational and non-government agencies during crisis operations.

Our folks in the Joint Concept Development and Experimentation Directorate worked with the Joint Staff, National Guard Bureau, U.S. Northern Command, U.S. Southern Command, U.S. Pacific Command, U.S. European Command, U.S. Africa Command, U.S. Special Operations Command, the Department of State, the Virginia Emergency Operations Center and the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman.

From the story:

“There is a large coalition of the willing coalescing around this experiment to explore their information sharing techniques.”

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Empire Challenge media day video

Posted by Gregg Your in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance on July 27th, 2009

Mike Gooding’s piece on Empire Challenge 09 is linked below, This came as a result of Mike coming out to the media day. Thanks a lot, Mike!

Empire Challenge from WVEC

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New component blog

Posted by Gregg Your in admin on July 24th, 2009

One of our component commanders, Adm. Harvey at Fleet Forces Command, started two things today: his command of U.S. Fleet Forces Command and a blog as a way of communicating .

Check it out.

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Displaying Empire Challenge

Posted by Gregg Your in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance on July 24th, 2009

MC2 Katrina Parker has given us a great look at what the media saw yesterday at Empire Challenge 09. From her point of view…

Key players for Empire Challenge 2009 hosted a media roundtable yesterday to discuss the demonstration’s solutions and capabilities. Visitors got a first-hand look at JFCOM’s Joint Intelligence Laboratory and were treated to individual Q&As from EC09 leaders. Highlights from the event are covered in my article.

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Empire Challenge 09 Media Day

Posted by Gregg Your in intelligence, joint capability development, surveillance and reconnaissance on July 23rd, 2009

We’ll have full coverage of today’s Empire Challenge 09 media day at USJFCOM’s Joint Intelligence Laboratory posted tomorrow. In the mean time, take a look at Air Force Staff Sgt. Joe Laws’ images from today’s events in our Flickr photo stream.

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Changing leaders

Posted by Gregg Your in irregular warfare on July 22nd, 2009

The team at Special Operations Command-Joint Forces Command has a new leader after a change of command ceremony today.

Find out about the new leader of this team of special operations professionals when you read coverage from MC2 Katrina Parker, and grab a look at photos Marc Benshetler took during the ceremony in our Flickr photostream.

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Jobs, jobs, jobs

Posted by Gregg Your in admin on July 21st, 2009

Just posted a job opening for a strategy policy planner in our Strategy and Policy Directorate.

As new jobs are posted, we’ll push a note here so you are aware.

Also, now is a great time to point out the jobs listing on jfcom.mil and encourage you to take a look and see if you are qualified to join the USJFCOM team.

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200 fans and counting!

Posted by Gregg Your in Uncategorized on July 19th, 2009

We hit 200 fans tonight on our Facebook fan page and, from everything I can tell, it was one of the Navy Reserve’s finest mass communication specialist chief petty officers, Lucy Quinn, who was lucky 200!

For those of you who haven’t signed up, please jump in. For those of you who have joined the crowd, please share it with your friends and comment away. Social media doesn’t work unless you participate.

Also, feel free to check out the main public site and our Twitter feed.

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Using a ghost army to help Empire Challenge 09

Posted by Gregg Your in industry, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance on July 18th, 2009

MC2 Katrina Parker brings us another story on Empire Challenge 09, this time with a look at the fruits of a partnership between U.S. Joint Forces Command and Northrop Grumman: a virtal brigade combat team which is helping joint warfighters evaluate intelligence, surveillance and reconaissance tools and procedures.

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Photos coming in from China Lake

Posted by Gregg Your in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance on July 17th, 2009

Staff Sgt. Joe Laws has just posted some photos of Empire Challenge 09 operations at China Lake, Calif. to our Flickr stream.

Special thanks to the guys at China Lake for shooting and pushing them across the pipe to us.

We’ll have more on Empire Challenge 09 here tomorrow and if you are media interested in our media days next week in Suffolk, please shoot us an email.

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