USJFCOM gears up for Noble Resolve
Working closely with U.S. Northern Command to support its mission of homeland defense, U.S. Joint Forces Command will soon begin the Noble Resolve experimentation series which will examine ways to enhance homeland defense and improve military support to civil authorities in advance of and following natural and man-made disasters. MCC(SW/AW) Chris Hoffpauir has the story.
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Narrated by MCC(SW/AW) Chris Hoffpauir, USJFCOM Public Affairs
Featuring: Navy Capt. John M. Kersh, Jr., head of the Joint Innovation and Experimentation Directorate’s Joint Context and Homeland Defense Department
Hoffpauir: U.S. Joint Forces Command begins its Noble Resolve experimentation series April 23. The series examines ways to enhance homeland defense and improve military support to civil authorities before and following natural and man-made disasters.
USJFCOM is partnering a number of federal organizations like the Department of Homeland Security and U.S Northern Command, as well as state-level organizations like the commonwealth of Virginia and the state of Oregon.
USJFCOM’s Joint Innovation and Experimentation Directorate in Suffolk, Va., manages Noble Resolve. Navy Capt. John M. Kersh, Jr., who heads the directorate’s Joint Context and Homeland Defense Department, said the Noble Resolve series allows participants to explore new ways to work together.
Kersh: It’s a venue that we’re providing to allow a variety of organizations to work issues that they’re concerned about, and have access to partners that they wouldn’t normally have access to. I’m sure there are already some working relationships. Anything we can do to enhance those relationships and introduce other people, that’s a great thing.
Hoffpauir: Kersh said the scenario of the experiment’s first phase starts with multinational partners and goes down to individual municipalities. It begins with a threat that originates in Europe and travels toward the United States. As the scenario progresses, other agencies and other layers of government become involved.
Noble Resolve coincides with the annual Virginia Emergency Response Team Exercise, or VERTEX, which focuses on the ability of Virginia’s first responders to deal with hurricanes and other disasters.
Kersh said there will be two Noble Resolve events per year. The first in concert with VERTEX and the other coordinated with the Department of Homeland Security, possibly to coincide with one of that department’s major exercises.
Later this year, USJFCOM will work with city officials in Portland, Ore., and the Oregon National Guard as they prepare for the Department of Homeland Security’s Top Officials exercise in October, designed to strengthen the nation’s capacity to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from large-scale terrorist attacks involving weapons of mass destruction.
For more on this and other ways USJFCOM is supporting homeland defense, visit us on the Web at www.jfcom.mil.
For U.S. Joint Forces Command, I’m Chief Petty Officer Chris Hoffpauir.
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