Joint
Fires Integration and Interoperability Team (JFIIT)
The Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team (JFIIT) is a subordinate, functional command of U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM), chartered with improving the integration, interoperability, and effectiveness of joint fires at the tactical level.
USJFCOM established JFIIT in February 2005 to provide assistance to joint force commanders and service headquarters in planning, coordinating, and executing joint fires at the tactical level. JFIIT’s 130-member team includes members from all four services and Department of Defense (DOD) civilians with contractor support.
JFIIT takes a holistic approach to improving joint fires by providing solutions that produce effective target acquisition, command and control (C2), and interoperable firing systems, thereby reducing fratricide and collateral damage.
The team’s focus areas include joint intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support to and joint air-to-ground fires integration with maneuver. C2 and combat identification receive attention as inherent elements within these areas.
JFIIT retains extensive service and joint expertise in fire support and targeting, ground maneuver, intelligence, weapon systems, data links, C2 and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). These core competencies, combined with professional technical expertise, provide JFIIT with a unique joint assessment capability.
JFIIT training assessments are three-fold: address how effectively a training program replicates the joint environment, verify that the training capability promotes proficient joint task execution, and assess the training audience’s joint task execution. Program feedback is provided to the training program’s staff and directly contributes to the Joint National Training Capability accreditation and certification of service and combatant command training programs and venues. JFIIT provides training feedback to the training audience and their leadership during the exercise via a facilitated after action review, and postexercise to the Joint Warfighting Center in the form of findings and recommendations focused on improving joint force training.
JFIIT capability assessments provide critical feedback on current and emerging joint capabilities in the areas of tactics, techniques, and procedures, combat systems and supporting architectures. These assessments support joint and service experimentation initiatives, Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC)-established joint close air support and CID/Blue Force Tracking Executive Steering Committees and as well as capability portfolio managers, such as the joint command and control capability portfolio manager. Collectively, the team’s training and capability knowledge contribute to the development and revision of joint fires doctrine.
Additionally, JFIIT supports the development of training capabilities as a product of conducted training and capability assessments. Training capabilities are introduced through a “teach-coach-mentor-handoff” approach to address identified joint fires training shortfalls with sustainment being the responsibility of the training program. Examples of training capabilities include leadership training materials for academics and coaching/mentoring during the exercise (train the trainers).
Lastly, the team uses established service, USJFCOM, and Joint Staff processes to ensure proposed solutions are acknowledged, endorsed, funded, and employed. JFIIT is the operator’s advocate for tactical joint fires improvement.
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