Download or read book A Reexamination of the Joint Force Air Component Commander JFACC Concept for the 21st Century written by David Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. military's Joint Force Air Component Commander (JFACC) construct is the current method of theater level air power employment. JFACC doctrine largely reflects U.S. Air Force history and procedures. Despite its successes, the JFACC concept has a number of problems. These include doctrinal mismatches among the services, additional layers in the chain of command, lack of responsiveness, and large manpower requirements. This paper examines those issues and proposes technological and organizational changes to the JFACC. These changes would result in a flatter, more networked organization that would give the Joint Force Commander (JFC) increased flexibility and effectiveness in theater air power employment.
Download or read book The Joint Force Air Component Commander JFACC Evolution Selection Perspectives written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Joint Force Air Component Commander (JFACC) concept is an issue that produces a great deal of controversy in the joint arena. The questions of authority, and doctrine need to be examined. Specific authority is delineated by the JFC, but vague doctrine, service parochialism and historical precedents confuse the issue. This paper will examine the JCS guidance, aviation perspectives and service views of the JFACC concept. The JFC designates a JFACC, if necessary; the JFACC's authority is defined by the JFC. The primary responsibility of the JFACC is to ensure a harmony of efforts to support the JFC's intent and concept of operations. The JFACC staff organization must be mission focused and flexible. Recommendations will be presented to help resolve the JFACC authority and doctrine controversies. (KAR) P. 1.
Download or read book JFACC Taking the Next Step written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designating a Joint Force Air Component Commander (JFACC) has rapidly become the customary procedure for exercising command and control of air power in support of joint force commanders. This approach enables JFACCs and air component staffs to develop joint operations plans together with staffs from other assigned components. Though limited resources preclude maintaining large standing air component staff for every contingency, it makes sense to have a small, trained cadre augmented by liaison officers from each component as well as trained personnel seconded in times of crisis. Such a mix can foster mutual trust, ensure the correct blend of capabilities, and furnish air assets to implement the myriad requirements of the joint force commander's concept of operations. A review of the improvements made in the JFACC concept since the Persian Gulf War points the way to a new age of centrally controlled air power.
Download or read book Joint Force Air Component Commander written by William D. Orton and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Command and Control for Joint Air Operations Joint Publication 3 30 written by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides joint doctrine for the command and control (C2) of joint air operations across the range of military operations and discusses responsibilities of a joint force air component commander (JFACC). It sets forth joint doctrine to govern the activities and performance of the Armed Forces of the United States in joint operations and provides the doctrinal basis for interagency coordination and for US military involvement in multinational operations. C2 is established through command relationships as described in Joint Publication (JP) 1, Doctrine for the Armed Forces of the United States and JP 3-0, Joint Operations. The air domain is described as the atmosphere, beginning at the Earth's surface, extending to the altitude where its effects upon operations become negligible. The degree of control over the air domain can range from no control, to a parity (neutral) situation, to local air superiority in a specific area, to air supremacy over the entire operational area. Joint force commanders (JFCs) organize forces to accomplish the mission based on their vision and concept of operations and provide direction and guidance on command relationships. The JFC's air component should be organized for coordinated action (through unity of command) using joint force air capabilities. Centralized control and decentralized execution are key considerations. There are three basic organizational options; in each a key task is organizing the staff, C2 system, and subordinate forces. The options are: (1) JFC designates a functional component commander as JFACC; (2) JFC designates a Service component commander; or (3) JFC chooses a staff option. Joint air operations are performed by forces made available for joint air tasking and do not include air operations a component conducts as an integral part of its own operations. They normally are conducted using centralized control and decentralized execution. The framework and process for C2 of joint air operations are consistent across the range of military operations. This publication has been prepared under the direction of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It sets forth joint doctrine to govern the activities and performance of the Armed Forces of the United States in joint operations and provides the doctrinal basis for interagency coordination and for US military involvement in multinational operations. It provides military guidance for the exercise of authority by combatant commanders and other joint force commanders (JFCs) and prescribes joint doctrine for operations, education, and training. It provides military guidance for use by the Armed Forces in preparing their appropriate plans.
Download or read book Joint Air Command and Control Doctrine A Help Or Hindrance to the Joint Force Commander written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To complete a comprehensive review of the entire spectrum of Joint Air Command and Control Doctrine would require an in depth analysis of which there is neither time nor space with this work to cover. However, by narrowing the focus of this paper to one overarching topic and its subsequent branches a thoughtful consideration of the larger Doctrinal issues can be initiated. As such, this paper focuses on Joint Air Command and Control (C2) Doctrine and how it applies to the Joint Forces Air Component Commander (JFACC) concept and the subsequent branches of Air Tasking Order (ATO) generation/utilization and Service idiosyncrasies in dealing with the JFACC concept. As an analysis of three recent United States military operations will show (Desert Storm, Allied Force, Operation Enduring Freedom), current Joint Force Air C2 Doctrine is a hindrance to the Joint Force Commander when employing joint air forces within the existing Joint Air Command and Control Doctrine architecture.
Download or read book Joint Force Air Component Commander written by William D. Orton and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Joint Force Air Component Commander's (JFACC) mission is to command joint air operations based on the Joint Force Commander's (JFC) concept of operations and air apportionment decisions. This is accomplished by planning, coordination, allocation, and tasking of assets. The basic components of the JFACC organization are Combat Plans, Combat Operations, Intelligence, and Communications. The Combat Plans Division includes a Guidance, Apportionment and Targeting (GAT) Cell, an Air Task Order (ATO) Production Cell, and an Air Strategy Cell. The Combat Operations Division includes Current Operations, an Airspace Cell, and an Air Defense Cell. The preceding JFACC organizational functions and relationships have been captured in joint doctrine. The JFACC charter is flexible. It could find itself operating as a part of a naval enabling force conducting presence operations. On the other end of the spectrum, it might participate in a major regional conflict. The following discussion will focus on the sea-based JFACC. It will explore the problems, limitations and considerations that are faced by sea-based JFACC. This will be done illustrating the sea-based JFACC variations that have been developed. Once a picture has been developed of the afloat JFACC executing its mission, the following question will be presented and analyzed: once a crisis matures, how do you smoothly accomplish a transition to the next higher or lower echelon of joint air operations? The discussion will attempt to show that joint doctrine has not completely addressed this question."--Abstract
Download or read book Let s Put joint Back Into Joint Forces Air Component Commander written by Lynn M. Champagne and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reenabling Air Force Command and Control for Twenty first Century Partnerships written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is time for Airmen to reenable the command and control (C2) of air operations as part of a joint force in today's complex security environment. Earlier this year, the Joint Staff released the latest version of Joint Publication (JP) 3-30, Command and Control for Joint Air Operations. Like all doctrine, JP 3-30's publication marks both an end and a beginning. The product is the culmination of a joint process by which Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines synthesized their experience and understanding of air and space C2 to provide future joint force commanders and staffs authoritative options. It codifies several important concepts, such as organizing with both theater and subtheater joint force air component commanders (JFACC), the role of air component coordination elements, considerations for the C2 of remotely piloted aircraft, and the potential for assigning JFACCs responsibilities for space-coordinating authority. However, the publication of JP 3-30 also signals the start of its revision. Transformation in the information age requires continuous improvement, and our dynamic Air Force strives to maintain the leading edge in the domains of air, space, and cyberspace. So, as today's version of JP 3-30 shapes how our joint forces command and control current air operations, we challenge our Airmen to renew the conversation onhow best to command and control air, space, and cyberspace forces for tomorrow's joint fight.
Download or read book The Ultimate Quarterback written by Naval War Naval War College and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current U.S. military way of war is driven by a conventional, symmetric combat mindset. This immediately leads to designating the ground component as the main effort to achieve operational objectives against ground-centric adversaries. There may be, however, better options that would maximize combat potential to meet the operational objectives with the fewest losses in the least amount of time. One of those options would be for the Joint Force Commander (JFC) to designate airpower as the main effort, using the Joint Force Land Component Commander (JFLCC) and Joint Force Special Operations Component Commander (JFSOCC) as supporting commanders, when the situation warrants. Operation ALLIED FORCE (OAF) and Operation ENDURING FREEDOM (OEF) are used to illustrate the validity of this concept. This operational concept would be appropriate in certain situations when the Joint Force Air Component Commander (JFACC) has command and control of the preponderance of kill mechanisms to attack the enemy's center of gravity. The use of operational art through an Ends, Ways, Means, and Risks framework is examined to determine when the JFC should consider designating airpower as the main effort and what conditions the JFC should be alert for in order to use this concept. Changes across the entire Doctrine Organization Training Material Leadership Personnel Facilities (DOTMLPF) spectrum are required to codify this change to ensure JFCs have another accepted option to achieve operational objectives.
Download or read book The Joint Force Air Component Commander JFACC Authority Perspectives written by J. B. Hulick and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joint Force Air Component Commander JFACC Active Technology written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this effort is to design, develop & implement active database technologies for addressing critical issues of providing timely, accurate data to the JFACC after next planning & execution process. This effort is applicable to multiple sub-areas of the technology base research & development category: managing the planning & execution process and flows of information in the process, continuous replanning & managing plan changes.
Download or read book Improving JFACC Doctrine and Communications written by Gary E. Washburn and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The employment of the Joint Force Air Component Commander Concept during Operation Desert Storm raised a number of issues. After-action reports highlight communications difficulties between the JFACC and the Naval aviation forces operating in the theater. The existing joint doctrine regarding the JFACC states that normally the service component with the preponderance of air assets and the ability to assume the function will be designated as JFACC. Because it failed to provide any more definitive guidance, joint doctrine assumed that different service components would perform as JFACC in more or less the same manner. However, the Navy and the Air Force developed dissimilar philosophies regarding the command and control of tactical air assets and subsequently procured communications systems to support their own philosophies. This produced interoperability problems during Desert Storm. The communications problems which occurred were the product of inadequate joint doctrine and the service components' insistence on employing their individual service doctrines/philosophies during a joint operation. Air Operations, Joint Force Air Component Commander, Communications.
Download or read book Joint Force Air Component Commander JFACC Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Application of algorithms based on advanced mathematical & engineering disciplines has the potential of creating an interdisciplinary field of Command & Control. Careful application of the ideas of differential games combined with stochastic processes gives an effective means of countering enemy action in a timely manner and achieving specified goals. This work describes the results of experiments examining the combination of feedback control and game theory, particularly continuous feedback of the Nash solution to a zero-sum game. The work includes a model of air mission dynamics, and applies nonlinear continuous-time deterministic differential equations using an iterative method based on successive local linear or quadratic approximations to reduce complexity. Additional work includes results of Kalman filtering used to estimate enemy state from partial measurements.
Download or read book Joint Forces Air Component Commander Transition written by Michael J. Becknell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During deliberate planning, the JFC must prepare to synchronize all action of apportioned forces and resources to achieve strategic and operational objectives. This is performed either in parallel with or subsequent to the CINC's campaign plan. Inherent in the JFC's concept of operation is the development of the Joint Air Operations Plan. Responsibility for the development of this plan rests with the JFACC. Although a CINC's campaign plan contains provisions for the planning, coordinating, allocating, and tasking of air assets in support of the JFC, it fails to adequately address provisions for the transfer of JFACC duties to other platforms or to other component commanders as a contingency. This paper will focus on considerations the JFC must anticipate for the expeditious transfer of the JFACC responsibilities without the loss of effective coordination, communication, and capabilities.
Download or read book Agile Control of Military Operations Joint Force Air Component Commander JFACC written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research focused on the problem of providing military commanders with real-time, optimal control of military air-to-ground operations for a 24-hour segment of a Joint Air Operations (JAO) campaign. In particular, we focused on developing control algorithms that anticipate possible air-to-ground mission modifications due to uncertain future events, thereby generating missions that can be readily adapted in the presence of contingencies. The primary benefit of this technology is agile and stable control of distributed and dynamic military operations conducted in inherently uncertain, hostile, and rapidly changing environments. The control methodology developed combines Approximate Dynamic Programming (ADP) and statistical hybrid state modeling techniques. Accordingly, a novel hybrid, multi-rate control architecture that tailors the control strategy for different battlespace situations was developed. For this JAO problem, a key concern was the scalability of the control methodology to larger scenarios. As a result, we investigated a broad spectrum of ADP control strategies. The solution quality and computation performance of these algorithms was tested and verified in a JAO simulator. It was shown through experimentation that the ADP strategies were able to produce operationally consistent control strategies that anticipated likely contingencies and positioned assets for opportunities of recourse in near real-time.
Download or read book A Decision Support System for Joint Force Air Component Commander JFACC Combat Planning written by Donald W. Hinton and published by . This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This system allows assessment of the Master Air Attack Plan (MAAP) during construction and at completion. The system functions around a relational database management system providing a decision support tool for the Guidance, Apportionment, & Targeting (GAT) cell of Central Command's JFACC Combat Plans. A Microsoft Access application is programmed to provide PC-based, real time evaluation of air campaign goals and constraints. The decision support system was validated in February 1997 by the CENTAF combat plans staff at Blue Flag 97- 1. The software and user's manual are maintained at HQ ACC/XP-Studies and Analysis Squadron.
