Joint Forces Intelligence Command

As the Global War of Terror continues, real-time intelligence collection, management, analysis, and dissemination remain a Department of Defense (DoD) and USJFCOM priority.

The Joint Forces Intelligence Command (JFIC), based in Norfolk, Va., supports USJFCOM’s intelligence needs by delivers innovative, relevant joint operational intelligence capabilities to the combatant command.

JFIC touches every aspect of USJFCOM’s mission of leading the transformation of the U.S. military by providing intelligence capabilities that are incorporated into joint force training, concept development and experimentation and joint integration and interoperability.

Among its many functions, JFIC:

• Creates a joint intelligence environment for experimentation, training, and operations.

• Explores and evaluates new intelligence analysis concepts, techniques, and networks.

• Integrates intelligence concepts and enablers for prototypes such as the standing joint force headquarters (SJFHQ).

• Supports joint force training through the Regional Joint Intelligence Training Facility (RJITF). The RJITF ensures USJFCOM and component command intelligence personnel are trained to integrate and apply joint intelligence core skills and systems applications in support of contingency operations.

• Serves as the test site for intelligence products and tools. JFIC performs these tests, in conjunction with program management offices, to aid the intelligence community and its efforts to field leading edge technology that ultimately supports the warfighter. These tests ensure DoD, national, and allied security and interoperability requirements are satisfied.

• Operationalizes lessons learned including: the Global War on Terror, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom. JFIC specifically focuses on improving how joint operational intelligence conducts targeting, bomb damage assessment, collection management, human intelligence, analysis, production, and dissemination.

• Works on joint intelligence planning concept development. USJFCOM intelligence directorate (J2) and JFIC are exploring concepts related to persistent/agile collection capabilities and processes; regional combatant command adaptable intelligence analysis processes and products, information sharing, and intelligence support to effects-based operations.

• Conducts efforts with USJFCOM J2, in partnership with the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (USD-I) to bridge operations and intelligence, providing processes, systems and tools to create a coherent, joint operational intelligence capability, environment and transformation culture.