USJFCOMLive

Introducing the JOE for 2010

Gregg Your — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:01:23 +0000

Just posted an article about the Joint Operating Environment 2010, a strategic framework that forecasts possible threats and opportunities that will challenge the joint force in the future.

JOE 2010 continues and improves on work first outlined in the 2008 version of the document which was downloaded over a million times from the command Web site.

Army Lt. Gen. Keith M. Huber, USJFCOM deputy commander said,

“The purpose of the JOE is to encourage strategic dialogue – we put out JOE 2008, people responded, we listened and made changes and improvements based on that feedback.”

Valiant Angel Media Day

lcdrroblyon — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:21:11 +0000

WHO: Mr. Andrew Forysiak, USJFCOM Joint Intelligence Directorate (J2), and Mr. Justin Thurber, USJFCOM Joint Intelligence Directorate (J2) will provide a brief and demonstrate Valiant Angel. Valiant Angel, is a system which uses commercially-fielded technology to improve the warfighter’s ability to process, exploit, and disseminate intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) data. The technology will help access, retrieve and store large ISR data sets down range.

WHEN: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 from 10:30 a.m. – noon. Media interested in attending will need to arrive for parking and escort no later than 10:00 a.m.

WHERE: Joint Technology Experimentation Center (JTEC) Suffolk, Va. NOTE: Media interested in attending please contact Kathleen Jabs at (757) 836-6553 or kathleen.jabs@jfcom.mil or Navy Lt. Cdr. Rob Lyon at (757) 836-6559 robert.lyon@jfcom.mil by 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 16. Please call or email for details.

Good news for USJFCOM command surgeon

Gregg Your — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:25:42 +0000

U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Navy Rear Adm. Michael H. Mittelman has been assigned as the top medical officer for U.S. Pacific Command and U.S Pacific Fleet. Read more.

J9 experiment leads to results in Afghanistan

Jacob Boyer — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:13:59 +0000

USJFCOM’s Joint Concept Development and Experimentation Directorate recently finished an experiment that evaluated the military’s partnerships with civilian agencies in the area of safety, security and justice reform. The results led to a team being deployed to Afghanistan to aid in standing up a new task force there responsible for the nation’s prisons, detentions and corrections system. Read more here.

Future units need balanced capabilities

Gregg Your — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:38:59 +0000

The American Forces Press Service just gave us some great coverage of Gen. Mattis’ testimony today. Check Army Sgt 1st Class Michael J. Carden’s handiwork.

Mattis testifies before Senate Armed Services Committee

Jacob Boyer — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:30:27 +0000

We just posted Gen. James Mattis’ opening statement for his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee today. Mattis and the commanders of USEUCOM and USAFRICOM answered questions from the committee this morning. Read his comments here.

Taking the FITE to the enemy

jlecappelain — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:43:08 +0000

I recently travelled to lovely Camp Lejeune, N.C., to witness first hand USJFCOM’s Future Immersive Training Environment (FITE) Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD), where Marine warfighters got a chance to try out a new training tool designed to make their first firefight no worse than their last training event.

This testing is part of spiral one, which is set in a total virtual reality environment. Later this year, the program will demonstrate spiral two, which is mixed reality and will give warfighters physical challenges as well as the mental ones they encounter in spiral one.

To read about it, click here.

See photos from the demonstration

Valiant Angel to improve movement and exploitation of large ISR assets

nikkicarter — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:51:28 +0000

USJFCOM is getting ready to deploy Valiant Angel, a new system of commercial tech that will improve the movement and exploitation of warfighter intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance - especially large datasets like wide-area surveillance – in deployed environments. For more, go here.

Welcome home JECC personnel

Gregg Your — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:56:30 +0000

Family and friends welcomed fifteen members of U.S. Joint Forces Command’s (USJFCOM) Joint Enabling Capabilities Command (JECC) as they returned home early this morning after helping stand up Joint Task Force (JTF)–435 in Kabul.

JFIIT assists first coalition brigade rotation through NTC

Jacob Boyer — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:24:16 +0000

A team from USJFCOM’s Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team just finished a seven-week rotation at the National Training Center providing indirect fire support to Task Force 1-10, a brigade-size Canadian Forces unit. The task force was the first coalition unit of its size to finish a rotation at Fort Irwin, Calif. Read more here.