What USJFCOM Does

What is USJFCOM?

Force Provider

Joint Trainer

Joint Capability Development

Joint Enabling Capabilities

Joint Concept Development and Experimentation

Reserve & Command Support

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Vice Commander 's Bio

Unified Endeavor Mission Rehearsal Exercise Program

Joint Event Management Information System (JEMIS)

Information Operations Range

Joint Doctrine, Education and Training Electronic Information System

Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability (JKDDC)

Doctrine Support

Combatant Command Training Program

Partnership for Peace (PfP)

Joint Center for Operational Analysis

Modeling and Simulations

Joint Theater Level Simulations (JTLS)

Joint Targeting School

Joint Conflict and Tactical Simulation (JCATS)

Joint Live, Virtual, Constructive Architectural Environment

Joint Systems Integration Center

Joint Urban Operations

Joint Interoperability Division

Joint Experimentation

Visiting Joint Forces Command

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JCS Link

Joint Doctrine

Defense Modeling and Simulation Office

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New JKO course improves knowledge base A new course designed in cooperation between the Joint Irregular Warfare Center and Joint Knowledge Online allows warfighters, civilians and contractors to learn about the nature of counterinsurgency. • Comment on this article at USJFCOMLive

Joint Training Directorate and
Joint Warfighting Center

The U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) Joint Training Directorate/Joint Warfighting Center (J7) trains forces, develops doctrine, leads training requirements analysis and provides a globally distributed and interoperable training environment to improve joint force readiness.  

It coordinates the military’s overall joint training efforts while working with a range of partners including the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the services, combatant commands (COCOM) and interagency and multinational communities.

The J7 conducts joint exercises, facilitating the development and execution of rigorous and realistic collective joint training.  It also provides joint context and capabilities to service training programs, prepares combined and joint task force commanders and staffs for overseas contingency operations through the mission rehearsal program and supports joint training exercises for COCOMs and services.

The J7 assists the Joint Staff in serving as the major production center for joint doctrine assessment and development.  In this role, it certifies learning courses and supports the development of handbooks, newsletters and white papers about new or emerging operational issues.

The J7 provides joint professional military education for senior military leadership in complex environments through the Capstone, Keystone and Pinnacle courses.  Individual joint training is also provided for about 100,000 registered users of Joint Knowledge Online, an advanced distributed online learning network that provides immediate access to joint knowledge resources.

The J7 develops an environment that enables joint training in realistic operational scenarios worldwide. It is home to the Joint National Training Capability Joint Management Office (JNTC JMO) and the Information Operations Joint Management Office (IO JMO).  The JNTC JMO offers a mix of live, virtual and constructive models and simulations over an integrated network of training sites, providing the most realistic joint mission experience possible.  The IO JMO facilitates information operations testing, training and other events.

J7 enables training through additional programs:

• Joint Deployment Training Center – develops and delivers education to combatant commands, DoD agencies and professional military education institutions on joint deployment planning and execution as well as functional training and standardized curriculum
• Joint Targeting School – provides formal training to mid-career military operations and intelligence personnel destined for unified commands, the joint staff, defense agencies and service-designated targeting positions
• NATO School Element – serves as the U.S. lead agent for NATO’s operational-level training facility
• Joint Interoperability Division – conducts training on joint tactical data link information management and exchange
• Joint Personnel Recovery Agency – shapes personnel recovery (PR) for DoD, interagency and partner nations and enables the warfighter to effectively accomplish PR responsibilities

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