DoD honors USJFCOM efforts to improve command and control linkages

U.S. Joint Forces Command has won the DoD Enterprise Architecture Achievement Government Organization Award for 2007 for a tool which helps map out the intricate nature of command and control systems for U.S. and NATO warfighters working around the world. Army Spc. Andrew Orillion has the story.

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Narrated by Spc. Andrew Orillion, USJFCOM Public Affairs

Orillion: U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) has won the DoD Enterprise Architecture Achievement Government Organization Award for 2007.

The award recognizes the Joint Command and Control Architectures and Capability Assessment Enterprise (JACAE), a program created and administered by the command's Joint Capability Development Directorate (J8)

Stuart Whitehead, J8 executive director, accepted the award Thursday during the DoD Enterprise Architecture Conference in Orlando, Florida.

JACAE maps out the available various command and control (C2) capabilities and how joint task force headquarters (JTF HQ) can bring them together to support a JTF and its networks.

The information that JACAE has provided has been used to directly support the JTF HQs formation support process. JACAE has greatly improved the ability to rapidly identify what is required for sustainable JTF HQs C2 systems and applications and to be able to identify shortfalls and sourcing options.

This information provides critical support to the planners and operators who perform the JTF mission analysis and has expanded to support NATO's efforts in Afghanistan.

This award marks the second time the command has won an award for enterprise architecture excellence. They previously won in 2005 for developing the Joint Battle Management Command and Control Joint Capability Mapping Environment, a tool which JACAE replaced.

For more information on this and other ways U.S. Joint Forces Command is supporting the warfighter, visit us on the web at www.jfcom.mil.

For U.S. Joint Forces Command, I'm Specialist Andrew Orillion.

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