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 Remarks
for USJFCOM/NDIA Industry Symposium 2005
Admiral
E.P. Giambastiani
Portsmouth, Va.
April 5, 2005
Good
morning and welcome everyone.
Thank you, Tim . . . and thank you Maj.
Gen. Jim Soligan.
This
is a great turn out. I understand we have over 100 people
from our attendance last year. It's great to see you all.
We
are very pleased again to co-host this important symposium
with National Defense Industrial Association. Our theme: "Joint
Command and Control from the Warfighter's Perspective,"
reflects the importance of establishing effective partnership
with members of Industry.
We
host these events on behalf of the joint operator. We seek
nothing less than to deliver the capabilities that our soldiers,
sailors, airmen and Marines require today and in the future.
And we simply can't do that without your help. That is why
these co-sponsored events are important. It helps to maintain
the right level of focus, exchanging the right kinds of information
and setting the most effective agenda for the "way ahead."
Thank
you again Maj. Gen. (ret) Tim Peppe and the NDIA team for
co-hosting this event. Special thanks, too, goes to Bob Grosvenor
and Ed Kules. They lead the NDIA team to help coordinate this
event.
I'd
also like to thank the members from Joint Forces Command who
helped to put this event together. I'd like to recognize my
deputy Lt. Gen. Bob Wagner
and, especially, my chief of staff Maj. Gen. Jim Soligan-they
were driving force for this effort.
Another
important member behind this symposium is Brig.
Gen. Don Broome, our J5 Director of Strategy & Analysis.
Don is the owner of the business process for interfacing with
Joint Forces Command. So if you like what we're doing to interface
with members of industry, you can thank Bob Wagner and Jim
Soligan. If you don't, then Don Broome is your man.
Now,
before I start, let me ask first to see how many people here
heard me speak at the NDIA conference a couple of weeks ago
in Norfolk? Raise your hands. Now how many folks here have
heard me speak before at any previous event?
OK, thanks-that's a fair amount. That's good because I'd like
to depart just a bit from my normal remarks and jump right
into what I think is key for our Industry Day.
Again,
getting back to our theme: "Joint Command and Control
from the Warfighter's Perspective," I'd like to talk
to you from the perspective of the customer-the joint warfighter.
And like all good customers - and in my mind a good customer
is a demanding customer - the mindset that I'll convey is
"what have you done for me lately." Or to put it
more precisely, have you-the smart folks from industry, battle
labs and think tanks-kept the customer at the forefront of
your technological development?
I
have only two slides to share and then I'd like to get your
questions.
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FIRST
SLIDE please.
Most of you have heard me speak before and so are very familiar
with this chart. We call this the Continuum of Transformation.
At
the top of the slide is what we like to refer to as the 4-Block
Chart. As you've heard me say before, the key point here is
that we all must all work to move the joint force from the
old conditions of "Deconflict, Coordinate, and even Integrate
to one of being an interdependent joint force."
This
interdependent joint force represents the apex of jointness.
It is the coherent integration of capabilities to produce
effects from not only U.S. forces but also for our Allies,
multinational partners, other federal agencies and even non-governmental
organizations. In short, the interdependent joint force has
the C2 capabilities to operate as a force that is greater
than the sum of its many parts.
In
a nutshell, having a firm grasp of how a joint force commander
really exercises command and control of his assigned forces
to achieve effects is a prerequisite to developing interdependent
joint gorce solutions.
And
there is probably a 5th box after that . . . which is why
we invest in joint experimentation. Later in the symposium,
you will hear more on this from Maj.
Gen. Bob Wood, our J9 director of joint experimentation
This
audience understands that a key focus for Joint Forces Command
is strengthening the capability for combatant commanders and
joint task force commanders to operate at the Block IV level
and beyond.
And
there's no time to waste. I've said it many times to many
audiences and it bears repeating again: combatant commanders
and NATO joint force do not really care where a particular
capability comes from so long as it is relevant to their operational
needs, is interoperable across the force and works as advertised
and when needed.
Only
three weeks ago, Gen. John Abizaid spent a day with me discussing
this very topic. Here's how I would sum up his comments to
me: "All command and control systems should be 'joint'."
John
has said what I've been preaching on for over 2 ½ years.
Today's
joint operators know first-hand that a collaborative and fully
interdependent joint force is an imperative-not a luxury-to
achieve rapid, coherent and decisive operations.
As
we move to a more a interdependent, networked force, we at
Joint Forces Command see a need to more aggressively seek
out the best ideas from technical experts who understand what
the joint operator needs.
Until
now, though, our relationship with industry - which I believe
is an asymmetric strategic advantage our nation needs to exploit
- has been governed by the formal and cumbersome acquisition
process. As a result, I know that some members in industry
have found it difficult to interact with joint operators to
share information and innovate within what I call "a
common joint context." Well, it may-or may not-come as
a surprise to you, but this formal process is cumbersome for
us too.
That
is why only last month, the office of the Secretary of Defense
delegated to Joint Forces Command a broad set of Technology
Transfer Authorities.
With
these new authorities come exciting new opportunities, but
also new responsibilities. We are working to establish the
proper business rules to structure partnerships with Industry
to exchange personnel, technical data and technology assessments.
To help manage this new process, we intend to stand up an
Office of Research and Technology Application to coordinate
and manage the command's technology transfer activities in
the coming weeks.
Dr.
Russell Richards of our J9-Joint Experimentation Directorate
has been leading an internal "Tiger Team" effort
to establish our Office of Research and Technology Application.
He will give a presentation tomorrow that will lay out our
plan for technology transfer implementation. I hope you will
find his presentation useful.
To
be sure, these new Technology Transfer Authorities are but
a means to an end- not the end itself. The whole point of
these authorities is to speed the process of turning the best
ideas from Industry and academia and other national and international
research laboratories into integrated capabilities. We see
great value in allowing innovative entrepreneurs, from small
businesses to large corporations, to participate in JFCOM's
transformation process.
This
point goes to the six initiatives on the bottom of the slide,
which provides you a sense of how we are connecting the "process
and product" of joint transformation. And you are playing
an important part helping to deliver these products.
I
won't cover them all but wanted to focus on the second line
on joint training.
Specifically,
I want to speak to the Joint
National Training Capability, or JNTC, as a means to get
at the joint operator's perspective and the capabilities they
require.
The
Joint National Training Capability is a key tool that is already
helping to move the continuum of change and innovation across
the blocks. It is helping to train service units to operate
as integrated joint forces anywhere around the world. It has
already turned the existing Service training and exercise
environments into an integrating environment for new joint
operational capabilities and methods.
As
a matter of fact, we just concluded this past Saturday a major
exercise call Joint
Red Flag '05. This was an exercise that brought together
the Army-led theater air and missile defense exercise called
Roving Sands, and the Air Force's air warfare exercise called
Red Flag. Over 10,000 people from all Defense Department components
combined with coalition partners participated in this exercise.
Now,
how did the JNTC make a difference?
What the JNTC did was allow for the networking and C2 interfacing
of all these units and participants, from the tactical to
the operational, into a coherently joint whole by the use
of live, virtual and constructive inputs.
In
fact, the JNTC allowed for the most extensive integrated network
that Joint Forces Command has sponsored since Millennium Challenge
2002. We had multiple tactical entitles who participated in
the exercise that were also being trained for deployment into
Iraq & Afghanistan and Horn of Africa. With the JNTC,
we were able to connect all the pieces in a live-virtual-constructive
environment.
Most
importantly, the JNTC allowed our forces to train with all
the joint "toys" in peacetime instead of having
to wait till an actual operation. In my view, the Joint National
Training Capability will drive "jointness" down
to the lowest tactical level.
Let
me just summarize the point again with a quick anecdote.
While
I was visiting the Army's portion of the training at Ft. Bliss,
I asked an Army captain who was commander of a Patriot missile
battery what he thought was different about this training
event? How has JNTC changed the training?"
His
answer: "Sir, this is totally different. Before, we would
just drive our trucks out here, track the live and simulated
threats, and engage them. It was pretty straightforward .
. . and unrealistic. But now, I get to train my whole battery
on the command and control issues. I get to participate in
the entire "kill chain" decision process. When we
first started the exercise, I couldn't shoot at cruise missiles
even though I was the first radar to pick them up. With JNTC,
I have to process the threat through the CAOC and the decision-execute
cycle -- all stuff I would have to do in a real scenario.
Without JNTC, I would just engage everything on my own authority
- something that just isn't realistic."
This
was a theme we encountered throughout the day - the human
element, the fog and friction of war could be played out in
training-not actual operations. Having a JNTC adds the reality
we can replicate in real operations. The troops I visited
seemed to appreciate this added capability despite their frustration
with it because they knew it was more realistic.
To
me this is what transforming along the continuum is all about.
It's about delivering capabilities like the JNTC and others,
like the Collaborative Information Environment, to the joint
operator.
But
as promising as the JNTC is-as are the other capabilities
you see on this chart-we still have a long way to go,
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This
brings us to the LAST
SLIDE.
What this slide tries to depict goes to the heart of why we
are gathering here for the symposium. We need your help to
search for the next level of integration and jointness. We
need your ingenuity and energy to develop the right capabilities
and processes to move the joint force beyond where we are
now.
In
the JNTC example I cited, we learned that we still had problems
linking all of our tactical and operational level units to
see the same picture of war. Building an all live or all virtual
or an all constructive picture is relatively easy. What's
hard is mixing all three together simultaneously. We need
to do better here.
Creating
a completely link picture to include incorporation of virtual
and constructive forces to all participants continues to be
challenge. Our inability to separating live, virtual, and
constructive forces by space and time continues to be an issue
for our pilots who participating in the live portion of the
exercise.
I
could go on, but I think you get the sense of the challenges
ahead. Maj. Gen.
Jon Gallinetti, our J7-Joint Trainer, will touch on these
points again when he joins the symposium panel.
Here's
our bottom line: You are an integral part of the process.
If you are not developing coherently integrated joint capabilities,
you are delivering tomorrow's joint problems. In other words,
if you are providing solutions that simply optimize service
systems and platforms, you may very well be delivering a future
joint problem.
That
is why we are very excited to host these Industry Day events.
They are important.
In
short, real transformation is the one that takes root within
the minds of those participating in the change process: military,
interagencies, multinational partners. And that includes you-our
valuable partners in industry.
Thank
you again for the work that you do and for your attention.
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