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USJFCOM exhibits Joint Force Projection ACTD

U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Deployment Process Owner held a demonstration for the Joint Force Projection Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration aimed at helping commanders to better track and manage capabilities.

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By Robert Pursell
USJFCOM Public Affairs

(SUFFOLK, Va. - Oct. 12, 2006) - Leaders from across U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) were in attendance today as the command's Joint Deployment Process Owner (JDPO) demonstrated a new tool that will help commanders to better manage capabilities.

The Joint Force Projection (JFP) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) is a Web-based system running on a classified network designed to help combatant commanders and joint task force commanders better track when and where their requested capabilities and forces will arrive.

ACTDs provide new and transformational operational capabilities designed to benefit the joint warfighter. This ACTD provides a single integrated force projection picture that links operators at service, joint and agency levels using real-time Web-based, network centric information systems helping databases talk with one another.

Once users login to the JFP ACTD, they are presented with a homepage helping them get started. The homepage consists of news, query search tools, links to other sites, and tutorials.

According to Navy Lt. Cmdr. Bill Parrish, the operational manager for the JFP ACTD, said this will improve and simplify warfighters' and force providers' JFP efforts through the use of visualization.

"It provides visualizations of the operational planning process," he said. "It takes disparate data sources, collates them and provides unique visualizations to depict the status of where the capabilities are in the planning process."

Today's demonstration offered observers a chance to see the JFP ACTD at its most current state which allows the end user to utilize the tool at full capacity.

"We're demonstrating the cumulative capability through spiral two which is providing the end user the first instance of the visualization tools at the web address," said Parrish.

USJFCOM, the Defense Information Systems Agency, and the deputy undersecretary of defense for advanced systems and concepts developed the ACTD with the support of all the services and two other unified commands taking a major role-- U.S. Pacific Command and U.S. Central Command.