 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.
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