USJFCOM: About the Intelligence Directorate

Intelligence Directorate (J2)
Joint Intelligence Operations Center (JIOC)

U.S. Joint Forces Command’s (USJFCOM) Intelligence Directorate (J2) Joint Intelligence Operations Center (JIOC) develops, integrates, trains and provides joint intelligence capabilities to meet present and future needs of joint forces.

These efforts align with USJFCOM’s major mission areas and work with partners across the command, the Department of Defense (DoD) and the U.S. and multinational intelligence communities.

Joint Intelligence Training & Education: The directorate provides intelligence support to joint exercises and conducts intelligence training through the Joint Forces Intelligence School. Its Joint Intelligence Training Joint Management Office manages and executes the Joint Intelligence Training System and Program for the DoD. The directorate also conducts joint counterintelligence and human intelligence training and lessons learned.

Intelligence Force Provision and Enabling Capabilities: The J2 JIOC provides key intelligence capabilities in both force provision and intelligence production. The Intelligence-Quick Reaction Team, under USJFCOM’s Joint Enabling Capabilities Command for training and readiness, provides military and civilian intelligence professionals with targeting and collection management expertise to a joint task force within hours of notification or during crisis or contingency operations. Intelligence production is centered on providing combatant command contingency planning support products for personnel recovery.

Intelligence Capability Development: USJFCOM J2 JIOC leads joint intelligence integration to ensure intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), and military command and control capabilities are compatible with each other. One integration effort is the annual USJFCOM led Empire Challenge ISR demonstration, which is a live multi-intelligence ISR interoperability demonstration that showcases emerging capabilities and provides lessons learned to improve joint and combined ISR interoperability.

Intelligence Concept Development and Experimentation: By conducting joint intelligence innovation through concept development and experimentation, J2 JIOC supports experimentation activities of USJFCOM, DoD and the intelligence community through work in identifying and developing new concepts, approaches, and best practices. The J2 JIOC operates the day-to-day activities of the Joint Intelligence Laboratory – a facility that tests joint intelligence concepts, processes, methodologies, and technologies. USJFCOM J2 JIOC experimentation efforts are key elements of the DoD’s joint intelligence operations centers, joint concept development and experimentation missions, and advanced visualization capabilities.

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