USJFCOM as Force Provider

As DoD’s joint force provider, U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) assigns nearly all conventional forces based in the continental U.S., providing trained and capable forces to commanders in the field. Building a joint force requires a considerable degree of coordination with active, National Guard and reserve elements of the armed forces to ensure the deployment of a task-organized integrated team. A joint force may also include elements of the U.S. Coast Guard.

With this joint force provider responsibility, USJFCOM provides informed military force options for supporting operations.

For example, an Air Force general, as a joint task force commander, could command and control the activities of an Army airborne and special operations troops, a Marine expeditionary unit, an Air Force squadron, and a Navy aircraft carrier. That joint force commander would subsequently report to a senior commander with responsibility for all. Military activities in a particular assigned region of the world commonly called an area of responsibility (AOR).

USJFCOM controls more than 80 percent of all continental U.S.-based combat ready conventional forces. In 2006, USJFCOM developed recommendations and coordinated the deployment of more than 290,000 personnel in support of combatant commanders. In October 2006, USJFCOM gained responsibility for management of assignment of individual augmentees to deployed units.

In addition to providing conventional forces, USJFCOM supports joint task forces with joint enabling capabilities like the Joint Enabling Capabilities Command and its subordinate commands like the Joint Communications Support Element (JCSE), the Joint Public Affairs Support Element (JPASE) and the Intelligence Quick Reaction Team (I-QRT).

• JCSE can globally deploy within hours of notification to provide command, control, communications and computers (C4) support to RCCs and U.S. Special Operations Command. JCSE provides communications packages tailored to the specific needs of a full joint task force headquarters and/or a joint special operations task force.
• JPASE provides trained, equipped and skilled teams with operational joint public affairs expertise to include planning and media operations.
• I-QRT provide military and civilian intelligence professionals with targeting and collection management expertise to a JTF rapidly or during events leading up to crisis or contingency operations.

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