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battle. Accordingly, our model concept for a Standing Joint Force
Headquarters (SJFHQ) will be ready for testing by the end of
FY 2004, with the goal of fielding the model globally to regional
commands during FY 2005.

Test prototype during Millennium Challenge 2002 (a major joint
force exercise)

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Establish baseline Issue guidance Establish oversight

Publish "Joint Force Command and Control Concept to Guide
Standing Joint Force Headquarters Development by 2005"
Update Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction (CJCSI)
3170.C, "Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System,"
draft charter

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ESTABLISH A GLOBAL JOINT PRESENCE POLICY

To better manage how we use air, land, sea, and space assets across service lines-and to improve coordination in the readiness and tempo of operations of all U.S. forces-we will establish steady-state levels of air, land, and naval presence in critical regions around the world. By matching our stationing and deployment policies to specific operational tasks, we will improve the capability and flexibility of U.S. forward-stationed forces and better control force management risks.

Our inaugural Global Joint Presence Policy was issued in the summer of 2003.

Enhance Homeland Defense and Consequence Management

In January 2002, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, working with the vice chiefs of the military services and the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, chartered a major

study of the Department's ability to perform homeland defense missions.

Using the consolidated list of all major military tasks as a baseline, the team identified 151 operational tasks related to homeland defense missions that would contribute to homeland security, and 32 associated deficiencies considered serious enough to warrant immediate remedial action.

Drawing on the results of this effort, the Joint Staff and the Commander, U.S. Northern Command, in cooperation with other federal agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Transportations Security Administration, are refining an operational concept and architecture for identifying and evaluating homeland defense missions.

DEFINE AND DEVELOP TRANSFORMATIONAL
CAPABILITIES

The dramatic transformation of America's strategic environment
demands an equally dramatic transformation in how we prepare the
force. Our emphasis must shift from deliberate planning to time-
sensitive planning, from permanent organizations to dynamic
organizations, and from hierarchical institutions to modular force
packages. Accordingly, how we train must transform.

Today's trainers must prepare the force to learn, improvise, and
adapt rather than to merely execute fixed doctrine to standards. We
must define and then develop dynamic capabilities-based training
across the full
full spectrum of service, joint, interagency,

intergovernmental, and multinational operations.

The long-term goals of training transformation are to:

• Improve readiness and align military capabilities with the needs of the combatant commanders.

• Develop individuals and organizations that think intuitively as joint entities.

• Develop individuals and organizations that instinctively adapt their response to a constantly changing threat.

• Achieve adaptation by unifying diverse means.

Achieving these objectives begins with changing the way people think and the way organizations operate. We must create, impart, and apply knowledge, individually and collectively, via learning, education, and training, respectively. The new strategic environment requires orchestration of this wider diversity of means and a broader, more inclusive definition of "jointness."

Accordingly, the training transformation implementation plan (www.t2net.org), signed by the Deputy Secretary on June 10, 2003, provides a road map to developing and fielding dynamic, capabilities-based training to Active and Reserve components; federal, state, and local agencies; and our international security partners, including nongovernmental organizations. This roadmap is framed around three key initiatives: the Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability, the Joint National Training Capability, and the Joint Assessment and Enabling Capability.

Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability

If we are to structure and employ forces in ways that will meet our strategic objectives, our forces must become multi-skilled and multidimensional- they must intuitively “think” joint. This means each civilian and military member of the force must understand the principles of joint operational art and "see" the battlespace through the lens of a common operating picture. This will allow them to apply knowledge collected from across the force and transform it into combat power that is able to surprise and overcome an aggressor.

The Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability (JKDDC) initiative is intended to leverage state-of-the-art distribution processes to access knowledge-in the form of education, learning, training, and human expertise-via a netcentric, knowledge-based, joint architecture that is interoperable with the joint training system. Thus, education and training

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resources will be available anytime, anywhere. It also will allow onscene commanders, first responders, and others to seek real-time advice from subject-matter experts in the areas of language, culture, science, strategy, and planning working at military war colleges, universities, or other resource sites across the globe.

Major JKDDC Milestones

Establish a joint management office

Stand up an Advisory Group

Align ongoing initiatives for joint distributed learning

Launch an initial web-based curriculum for joint military leader development
Provide an initial web-based delivery of joint individual education and training
resources

Transition initial joint education and training prototype efforts to international coalition
partners, international organizations, and nongovernmental organizations

Joint National Training Capability

Building on the training transformation of the 1970s, the Joint National Training Capability (JNTC) will provide an environment for realistic joint exercises against aggressive, free-playing opposing forces, with credible feedback. This integrating environment will provide:

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Improved Horizontal Training that builds on existing service interoperability training

• Improved Vertical Training that links component and joint command and staff planning and execution

• Integration Exercises that enhance existing joint exercises to address joint interoperability training in a joint context

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Functional Training that provides a dedicated joint training environment for functional warfighting and complex joint tasks

The JNTC will enable active and reserve component forces from all services, located at widely dispersed training sites around the globe, to train together on a 24-hour basis, while linked to real-world command and control systems.

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JNTC can be used to train forces against a general threat, to conduct mission rehearsal against a specific threat, or to experiment with new doctrine, tactics, techniques, procedures, joint operational concepts, and equipment. By providing the means to represent large tactical forces via simulation, JNTC can present a range of realistic training to battle staffs from joint headquarters, component headquarters, and service tactical headquarters. Over time, JNTC will evolve to encompass a larger training audience, including coalition partners and federal, state, local, and nongovernmental agencies.

Major JNTC Milestones

Initial Operating Capability

Provide joint context with command, control, communications, computer,
intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance to major service training events
and to joint command and staff training events

Create an initial Web-based delivery capability for operational planning and
mission rehearsal

Create an initial Web-based delivery capability for operational planning and
mission rehearsal

Use the joint training system to link lessons learned from military operations, joint
training, experimentation, and testing to the development and assessment of joint
operational capabilities

Assess all joint training tasks biannually in a joint context in selected joint
exercises

Conduct specifically-designed major transformation events with complex tasks in
a joint context to assess systematically the joint operational capabilities
Conduct a multinational JNTC event

Demonstrate a deployable JNTC, and mission rehearsal capabilities
Train joint forces to conduct operations in key transformation mission areas
Conduct and analyze joint and interoperability training with lessons learned
leading to improvements across the spectrum of doctrine, organization, training,
materiel, leadership, personnel, and facilities

Establish fully-trained SJFHQ with functional components

Joint Assessment and Enabling Capability

The Joint Assessment and Enabling Capability (JAEC) initiative will help us systematically assess training transformation plans, programs, and investments across the Department, allowing us to continuously monitor how joint force readiness is improving. These

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