Blue Knight 2010, an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) demonstration led by USJFCOM’s Joint UAS Center of Excellence, ends in Nevada after testing U.S. manned and unmanned joint force capabilities against airborne UAS, in a one-on-one capacity.

Blue Knight 2010, an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) demonstration led by the Joint UAS Center of Excellence, is underway at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.

U.S. Joint Forces Command communicators and personnel from across the government and other countries recently participated in a three-week exercise designed to improve joint and coalition communications abilities.

The Empire Challenge team puts the final touches on preparations for this year’s demonstration, scheduled to be held in late July/mid August at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.

USJFCOM’s annual Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration features interoperability trials focused on assessing developing technology solutions against C4ISR capability gaps as identified by combatant commanders, services, agencies and coalition partners. The two-week demonstration runs through June 26.

A Canadian Forces task force recently became the first coalition brigade-size element to complete a rotation at Fort Irwin, Calif.'s National Training Center. USJFCOM's Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team was there to lend its support.

During Bold Quest 09, U.S. and coalition joint terminal attack controllers (JTACs) had the opportunity to work with the JTAC Virtual Trainer, a system that allows them to train with their equipment without weather or flight availability holding them up.

U.S. Joint Forces Command's (USJFCOM) senior joint capability development leader discussed how command and control is improving decision making at the the third annual Distributed Common Ground System conference.

Warfighters from around the globe are using realistic scenarios as they evaluate procedures and technology designed to reduce friendly fire.

Warfighters from eleven nations around the globe are evaluating new technologies designed to improve combat identification and decrease friendly fire incidents during Bold Quest 09

U.S. Joint Forces Command kicks off this week Coalition Combat Identification Bold Quest 09, a capability assessment focusing on air-to-ground friendly force identification. Participants from the four services, U.S. Special Operations Command, and nine coaltion nations will gather at Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C. for the assessment, which runs Oct. 27-Nov. 5.

Empire Challenge 09 assessed 38 ISR capabilities to support warfighters at the combined task force level and below. With the results in from the demonstration, the command begins planning for next year's event.

Navy Vice Adm. Robert Harward, U.S. Joint Forces Command deputy commander, spoke about leader-centric, network-enabled command, control, communication, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance during the keynote address at the 9th Annual C4ISR Journal Integration Conference, focusing on leaders who know how to work with and without an array of C4ISR platforms and concepts of operations for those platforms.

The Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team helped joint warfighters sharpen their close-air support capabilities at a recent Joint Readiness Training Center exercise.

U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Systems Integration Center recently called on warfighters to help evaluate how well a particular system works and identify ways to improve the system for users.

U.S. Joint Forces Command and its partners will spend the majority of the month of July examining how to better provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities to U.S. and allied forces.

U.S. Joint Forces Command and its partners for Empire Challenge 09 are putting the final touches on preparations for the annual joint and coalition intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) interoperability demonstration.

U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) is continuing preparations for the 2009 Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) which will take place this summer at locations in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom.

U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team is working closely with the Army's Joint Readiness Training Center at the Air Force's Green Flag East to prepare A-10 Thunderbolt pilots for deployment.

Joint terminal air controllers and joint forward observers are getting help sharpening their skills from U.S. Joint Forces Command's joint fires experts.

U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Systems Integration Command has completed an analysis of emerging technology which will help speed the flow of information to warfighters.

USJFCOM recently began work on three high-demand capabilities as part of its participation in the Department of Defense's Joint Concept Technology Demonstration program.

U.S Joint Forces Command's (USJFCOM) joint fires experts at the Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team are assisting the Army's Joint Readiness Training Center as they prepare warfighters on how military services can work together.

U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team has provided the joint context to the Army's brigade combat teams as they train and prepare for deployment at the National Training Center.

U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team recently supported U.S. and coalitions partners in a joint training integration event between an Air Force exercise and an Army brigade combat team training rotation.

U.S. Joint Forces Command recently moved its C2Pedia Registry to the unclassified Internet to allow more potential users to access the site hoping it will improve the quality of data.

Responsible for joint systems integration, U.S. Joint Forces Command plays an important role in placing joint command and control capabilities into the hands of the warfighter. Recently, Marine Corps Col. Medio Monti, who oversees this effort as the commander of the Joint Systems Integration Command or JSIC, discussed his goals and expectations, the progress made by his team, and what lies ahead.

U.S. Joint Forces Command, along with its coalition partners, recently assessed coalition combat identification technologies designed to enhance combat effectiveness and successful identification of friendly forces during Bold Quest Plus at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.

U.S. Joint Forces Command has began a demonstration designed to improve combat identification consisting of over 350 participants from Canada, the United Kingdom, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Special Operations Command.

StrikeLink/A, a new U.S. Marine Corps close air support capability (CAS), had its first successful test flight at China Lake, Calif. The new software/hardware package allows for even more precise CAS actions and enables interoperability between CAS aircraft.

U.S. Joint Forces Command will partner with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency to kick off Empire Challenge 2008 in China Lake, Calif., this week, a demonstration designed to enhance joint and coalition interoperability.

U.S. Joint Forces Command recently released its command and control vision focused on the human element of leadership and directing near-term efforts toward providing coherent policy, strengthened partnerships, training and education initiatives and joint and coalition capability integration.

U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team (JFIIT) has helped the Army's Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar (C-RAM) Program and the National Training Center to improve base defense systems in the training environment the Army's brigade combat teams use to prepare to go overseas.

U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Systems Integration Command's Joint Systems Baseline Assessment 2008 kicked off recently, designed to look at combatant command-identified interoperability issues affecting joint command and control, targeting, and collection management in a coalition environment.

U.S. Joint Forces Command has won the DoD Enterprise Architecture Achievement Government Organization
Award for 2007 for a tool which helps map out the intricate nature of command and control systems for U.S. and NATO warfighters working around the world.

The leadership of U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Capability Development Directorate will change with an announcement of the current director moving on to new responsibilities as the vice commander of the Pacific Air Force and his replacement coming from a job as the the director of the Air Component Coordination Element, Multi-National Force-Iraq.

U.S. Joint Forces Command's (USJFCOM) Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team (JFIIT) will partner with U.S. Central Command Air Forces (CENTAF) to provide joint close air support expertise and share some unique technological capabilities with joint warfighters.

U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team (JFIIT) will focus on air-ground integration when it conducts a brigade combat team exercise at the U.S. Army's National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., starting in November.

U.S. Joint Forces Command, the services and a team of multinational partners completed evaluations of various combat identification technologies during Bold Quest 07, which came after 15 months of preparation. The event yielded a huge amount of data the team will begin to analyze so they can discover key insights.

Starting this week and running for twelve days, U.S. Joint Forces Command will team with U.S. military and international partners for Bold Quest 07, an event designed to assess the latest technologies designed to reduce incidents of friendly fire and increase situational awareness.

Marine Corps Col. Medio Monti relieved Air Force Col. Dan Bryan as commander of the Joint Systems Integration Command at a change of command and retirement ceremony at JSIC headquarters in Suffolk.

U.S. Joint Forces Command will look at several friendly force tracking systems for their ability to work together during September's Bold Quest 07 demonstration which will also assess the overall joint effectiveness and ability of the systems to support the joint warfighter.

With the intent to raise awareness of USJFCOM's continuing transformation efforts, this is part of a series of profiles, allowing command subject matter experts to highlight priorities, challenges, and solution paths for the future in their field. Marine Corps Col. L. Ross Roberts, the Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team commander at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., took the time to talk about the current status of the USJFCOM's joint fires team, some of its accomplishments, and where the team is headed.

Representatives from U.S. Joint Forces Command, the Department of Defense and other agencies get a look at the Command and Control Data Pilot initiative, the newest advance in rapid, net-centric capability delivery.

U.S. Joint Forces Command's (USJFCOM) Joint Systems Integration Command has began assessing new technology that will allow warfighter on the ground to digitally request air support to bomb ground targets. The assessment is a part of USJFCOM's Joint Command and Control Capabilities Portfolio Management program, designed to help identify opportunities to improve joint interoperability and to meet joint warfighter needs.

Joint Systems Integration Command computer labs are using the newest command and control systems from across the services, all working together to test their interoperability and usefulness to the warfighter as part of the Joint Intelligence Operations – Command and Control program.

U.S. Joint Forces Command continues to accelerate and improve its Joint Command and Control Capability Portfolio Management program to better manage the similar capabilities that allow commanders to stay aware of situations and make decisions.

During the upcoming exercise Bold Quest, U.S. Joint Forces Command will team with the U.S. military and international allies to assess the technologies to be used with the Coalition Combat Identification Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration designed to reduce friendly fire incidents and increase situational awareness.

A U.S. Joint Forces Command – sponsored Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration dealing with Theater Effects Based Operations has been named a finalist for the 2007 Intergovernmental Solutions Awards.

A U.S. Joint Forces Command-managed demonstration which targets information technology that could be moved into operational use within 18 months of the execution period is showcasing new tools which could increase the interoperability of defense systems.

With the intent to raise awareness of USJFCOM's continuing transformation efforts, this is part of a series of profiles, which allow command subject matter experts to highlight command priorities, challenges, and solution paths for the future in their field. The director of U.S. Joint Forces Command's Standing Joint Force Headquarters recently outlined the capability's history, where it is today, and where the constantly developing teams of command and control specialists will go in the future.

U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Unmanned System Common Control Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration designed to create a set of common joint standards and architecture for unmanned vehicles is well on its way to the joint warfighter.

U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Future’s Laboratory successfully demonstrated a language translation capability in the Cross Domain Collaborative Information Environment during the Navy’s annual Trident Warrior sea trial event, allowing servicemembers from many countries to communicate seamlessly in text messages.

A subordinate, functional command of U.S. Joint Forces Command tasked with improving the integration, interoperability and effectiveness of joint fires is playing a key role in helping to train soldiers, airmen and Marines to better do their jobs as joint fires observers and joint terminal attack controllers.

The Joint Force Projection Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration will participate in its Joint Military Utility Assessment, the last hurdle in fielding it to the warfighter.

The Personnel Recovery Extraction and Survivability aided by Smart Sensors ended its Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration and has since entered the transition phase expediting the process of fielding its technology to the warfighter.

USJFCOM's Joint Intelligence Directorate's Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance Information Service (ISRIS) makes video and data from manned and unmanned aircraft available on the ground using off the shelf technology.

After using limited acquisition authority to speed an earlier version to warfighters fighting the Global War on Terror in Afghanistan, U.S. Joint Forces Command continues its role in the development of the Joint Precision Airdrop System with new ways of delivering supplies to ground forces minimizing the level of risk for the warfighter.

Air Force Gen. Lance Smith talked to military and industry leaders about the importance of interoperability and the changing landscape of warfare when it comes to operations that are focused on the task of recovering captured, missing, or isolated personnel from harm’s way.

During 2006, U.S. Joint Forces Command’s made great strides, working with governmental and nongovernmental agencies and other nations to develop better ways of supporting each other, forging new partnerships with industry and academia, and supporting the warfighter around the world. The command conducted experiments that investigated how the U.S. military and its allies and partners will train and operate together in the future, and its efforts in analyzing lessons learned in the Global War on Terrorism yielded a groundbreaking report on Saddam Hussein’s regime.

U.S. Joint Forces Command will join five other local partners on the Eastern Virginia LightWave Internetworking Technology Enterprise network, a high-speed, high-bandwidth network in southeastern Virginia that supports scientific and military research.

U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) has assumed the responsibility to increase the efficiency of the process of providing individual warfighters to operations and commanders around the world.

Joint Systems Integration Command recently concluded the operational assessment of the Joint Systems Baseline Assessment 2006 bringing the two-part event to a close.

Air Force Gen. Lance Smith, commander of U.S. Joint Forces Command, testified before the Commission on National Guard and Reserve Hearing stressing the importance of reserve components.

A small cadre of U.S. Joint Forces Command personnel have deployed to different posts in U.S. Central Command's area of responsibility to better respond to operational requirements of the warfighter and improve the understanding of transformation.

USJFCOM Director of Requirements and Integration Air Force Maj. Gen. Mike Hostage speaks about how the command is working to meet the needs of the warfighter and ensure solutions are "born joint."

U.S. Joint Forces Command and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency are demonstrating intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, techniques and procedures for joint and coalition warfighting operations in Empire Challenge 06.

U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Systems Integration Command developed a new capability to allow joint warfighters to more rapidly establish command and control when they set up operations in an area where no established networks are available.

U.S. Joint Forces Command, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, and an Army machine foreign language translation program are working together to field the English-Iraqi 2-way speech-to-speech translation capability to warfighters.

U.S. Joint Forces Command continues to improve the Global Command and Control System - Integrated Imagery and Intelligence, giving commanders and intelligence specialists a highly configurable secure system bringing together information collected at various levels to a single screen.

U.S. Joint Forces Command Commander Air Force Gen. Lance Smith stressed the importance of information access and the abilities it delivers as he spoke to military and industry leaders who develop the systems joint warfighters take to the field as they support operations around the world.

With a focus toward getting joint warfighters the most efficient and effective assistance they need, U.S. Joint Forces Command conducted the Extended Awareness 06-1 limited objective experiment with the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command to explore near-term solutions relating to convoy force protection.

U.S. Joint Forces Command's Standing Joint Force Headquarters Directorate is providing warfighters to help the Defense Information Systems Agency create Net-Enabled Command Capability, the Department of Defense's next-generation command and control program.

A contract to support U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team worth possibly $59 million over five years has been awarded to Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC).

Joint Systems Integration Command’s Joint Systems Baseline Assessment 2006 completed a technical assessment designed to test command and control systems used by warfighters around the world.

A memorandum of arrangement signed by representatives of the Romanian Ministry of National Defence and U.S. Joint Forces Command establishes formal liaison between the two nations and allows the assignment of a full-time Romanian officer at USJFCOM.

With the Collaborative Information Environment (CIE), planners from different locations can conduct meetings without leaving their desks, avoiding the hazards of traveling to a meeting place.

U.S. Joint Forces Command has started the search for items for consideration for next year's Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration which focuses on developing technologies capable of transitioning to an operational environment within twelve months.

U.S. Joint Forces Command's deputy commander spoke with the defense electronics industry on May 10 regarding the importance of transforming the joint forces at the 2006 Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association's Transformation TechNet conference.

U.S. Joint Forces Command’s (USJFCOM) Joint Systems Integration Command (JSIC) recently demonstrated the Command and Control On-The-Move (C2OTM) project which allows joint warfighters to link up to each other while on the battlefield.

U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Center for Operational Analysis has completed the unclassified historical report of military operations conducted in Iraq, reflecting the Iraqi civilian and military leadership’s perspective of events.

Standing joint force headquarters core elements continue to show their value to joint task force commanders as they face a variety of combat and humanitarian situations around the world.

U.S. Joint Forces Command continues to work closely with the services, the Joint Staff and the DoD staff to introduce "jointness" into the capability development process.

USJFCOM formed the Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team one year ago this week and the organization's made substantial progress in helping the services operate together as a joint fires capability better according to the team's commander.

U.S. Joint Forces Command recently sent personnel from the command's Standing Joint Force Headquarters to bring a concept designed to encourage interagency cooperation to an exercise in the Pacific.

USJFCOM’s lead agent for investigating, assessing, and improving the operational effectiveness of joint fires recently assisted in training joint fires observers at an event at Fort Sill, Okla.

Members of a working group made up of nine nations met here for a project that will help coalitions share data between their intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets and systems with the goal of ensuring their future successes when they fight wars together.

U.S. Joint Forces Command and the Joint Forces Staff College are continuing their partnership of working together to deliver joint command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) instruction to joint task force and combatant command C4I decision makers.

U.S. Joint Forces Command will invite industry, academia, government, and other interested organizations to a forum focused on database integration challenges that joint warfighters face.

U.S. Joint Forces Command is among the finalists for the Institute for Defense and Government Advancement's annual Network Centric Warfare Awards program.

U.S. Joint Forces Command, along with the military services and others, looked towards ways to simplify and improve the Joint Force Projection Request for Capabilities process during a limited objective experiment that also assessed the Joint Capabilities Requirements Tool (JCRT).

2005 was an active and productive year for U.S. Joint Forces Command. Throughout the year, the command's public affairs writing staff followed the command’s major efforts and milestones and provided the latest news on the many facets of the command's mission. For this story, we linked back to what we saw then and look ahead to what the command has planned for 2006.

USJFCOM continues to use its limited acquisition authority to equip joint warfighters with tools for the Global War on Terrorism.

A former Navy officer, who now serves as USJFCOM's Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration deputy branch chief, received the Bronze Star Medal for actions taken while officer-in-charge of an unmanned aerial vehicle detachment attached to a special operations joint task force in Afghanistan.

Armed with results of past work, U.S. Joint Forces Command officials agree that partnering with academic and educational institutions is beneficial to the command and the future of joint warfighting.

More than 40 members of U.S. Joint Forces Command's Standing Joint Force Headquarters - Core Element lent a hand with hurricane relief operations in the battered U.S. Gulf Coast region, shaving days off hurricane recovery efforts.

Standing Joint Force Headquarters-Core Element’s Brian Jones, chief engineer for the directorate’s C4 systems support team, recently received the 2005 DoD Chief Information Officer Award for first place in the individual category. The award recognizes contributions to transformation that improve warfighting operations.

U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team works every day to make the possibility of coordinated combat attacks a reality.

Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance interoperability, tested during USJFCOM’s Extended Awareness III experiment, increased battlespace awareness and improved time-sensitive operations.

Developed to refine communication among the U.S. armed forces and improve joint operations, U.S. Joint Forces Command's year-old military exchange program has received rave reviews from its current participants.

A current Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration, which USJFCOM is pursuing, is designed to solve communications problems in the battlespace and enable tactical commanders to access and control intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors that directly benefit their operations.

U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Requirements and Integration Directorate has won the Excellence in Enterprise Architectures Award in the Department of Defense Leadership in Government Transformation Category for their development of a capability that shows promise in enabling the set up of joint task forces, improving situational awareness and tackling the whole gamut of command and control issues.

The Army's V Corps recently assessed a Joint Systems Integration Command's operational prototype of a situational awareness system designed to give commanders both capability and mobility as they move around the battle field. The system went from concept to a ready-to-deploy operational prototype in just eleven months.

Navy Rear Adm. Richard J. O'Hanlon looks back on his tour as director of U.S. Joint Forces Command's Standing Joint Force Headquarters - Core Element and explains the challenges and milestones his successor will face.

Adm. Edmund P. Giambastiani recently agreed to add another officer to the group of the almost 70 multinational liasion officers who work every day with the command leading the transformation of the U.S. military.

One of U.S. Joint Forces Command's advanced concept technology demonstrations will help commanders maintain better awareness of troops and capabilities flowing in and out of their area of responsibility.

As part of a series of profile articles designed to raise awareness of USJFCOM's continuing transformation efforts, which allows command subject matter experts to highlight command priorities, challenges, and solution paths for the future within their field. Air Force Brig. Gen. William Rajczak, U.S. Joint Forces Command’s deputy director for joint requirements and integration, cites command initiatives that are delivering innovative capabilities to the warfighter in a timely fashion.

U.S. Joint Forces Command and the Joint System Integration Command will lead efforts to test and field selected interoperability trials resulting from the recently completed Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration 2005.

The executive assistant to the commander, Sixth Fleet in Gaeta, Italy will soon become U.S. Joint Forces Command's director of the Standing Joint Force Headquarters-Core Element

Linguistic data collection and software programming are increasing warfighters' abilities to interact effectively with Iraqis.

A new ACTD shows promise in improving the accuracy of aerial deliveries and giving warfighters a capability that integrates global positioning satellite technology for a precision aerial delivery system which brings multiple supply loads to joint forces at multiple locations.

Joint Systems Integration Command's new C2 on the Move operational prototype gives joint task force commanders mobility without losing connectivity, allowing them to stay connected as they move around the battlefield.