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Command looks at future capabilities with DoD leadership

U.S. Joint Forces Command's operational managers who oversee programs that rapidly and efficiently deliver urgently needed technology to commanders in the field met with the Department of Defense leader who oversees the efforts for the whole U.S. military. Petty Officer Nikki Carter has the story.

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By MC2 (AW) Nikki Carter
USJFCOM Public Affairs

Narrated by: MC2 (AW) Nikki Carter, USJFCOM Public Affairs
Featuring: Dr. John Wilcox, JCTD program director

Carter: U.S. Joint Forces Command presented the latest status of the command's Joint Capability Technology Demonstrations or JCTD and Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration also known as ACTD to the Department of Defense's JCTD program director during a recent visit and received a preview of possible future products.

The annual review looks at the status of the USJFCOM's ACTDs and JCTDs and the remaining activities required to transition the capabilities to the joint warfighter.

The customers of the program are the combatant commanders which presents a unique challenge as the services are normally the agencies bringing capability to the battlefield.

The change from the ACTD construct to the new JCTD model has started to yield faster results according to the director.

For both models, the number one metric or measure of success is transition. Dr. John Wilcox, program director for JCTD, said the old goal was to transition at least 70 percent of ACTDs to a program of record or some sort of transition capability; now with JCTDs, that number is over 80 percent

Wilcox: I think transition is one of the big values to the COCOMs because it gives them a chance to influence the acquisitions process in a very short term.

Carter: 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 Petty Officer Nikki Carter.