Understanding the Standing Joint Force Headquarters

摘要

The U.S. joint forces Command (JF-COM) has developed a joint concept development and experimentation strategy along two paths: a joint concept development path and a joint prototype path. The concept development path explores a broad range of ideas and concepts, while the prototype path pursues rapid fielding of capabilities that improve joint warfighting in the near term. For several years, JFCOM has experimented with various concepts for future command and control (C2) elements. A May 2000 white paper discusses an adaptive joint C2 concept, which is "a redesigned, functionally oriented, standing core headquarters element [to] support operational requirements described in the emerging Rapid Decisive Operations (RDO) concept." In the summer of 2000, JFCOM sponsored an RDO war game to consider a standing C2 organization. Unified Vision 2001 findings reinforced the value of establishing a standing organization, and in 2002, JFCOM formed a prototype standing joint force headquarters (SJFHQ) to demonstrate this concept during Millennium Challenge 2002 (MC02).