What USJFCOM Does

What is USJFCOM?

Force Provider

Joint Trainer

Joint Capability Development

Joint Enabling Capabilities

Joint Concept Development and Experimentation

Reserve & Command Support

Follow Us (Link will open in a new window)

USJFCOM news service
USJFCOM on Facebook
USJFCOM on Flickr
USJFCOM on Twitter
USJFCOMLive - USJFCOM's Official Blog
	About USJFCOM News RSS

Recent podcasts

• Distance learning efforts garners awards • Command moves C2Pedia to unclassified network • Joint Enabling Capabilities Command up and running • USJFCOM to partner with NATO for training exercise • Newsmaker Profile: Marine Corps Col. Medio Monti

Learn More

Army Lt. Gen. Bob Wood

Joint Futures Laboratory (JFL)

Joint Warfighting Center

Joint Semi-Automated Forces

Cross Domain Collaborative Information Environment

Joint National Training Capability

Standing Joint Force Headquarters

Joint Public Affairs Support Element

Joint Communications Support Element

Joint Personnel Recovery Agency

Recent USJFCOM News

Norwegian armed forces, battle lab host Coalition Combat Identification test The preparation process for Bold Quest 2011 begins this month in Norway.  U.S., U.K. and Norwegian warfighters and analysts will test combat identification servers and interfaces during a 10-day event near Oslo. • Comment on this article at USJFCOMLive

Air Force Michael W. Wynn talks with U.S. Joint Forces Command's Director for Joint Capability Development Air Force Maj. Gen. Mike Hostage as the secretary visited the command. Wynn toured the USJFCOM ’s Joint Futures Lab and Joint Warfighting Center in Suffolk, Va. (Click on this official photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. Joe Laws for a high quality version)

Secretary of the Air Force visits U.S. Joint Forces Command

Secretary of the Air Force Michael W. Wynne visited U.S. Joint Forces Command April 13 to tour the command's Joint Futures Lab and Joint Warfighting Center in Suffolk, Va., to gain insight into how the command supports the warfighter.

• Listen to the podcast

---

By MCC(SW/AW) Chris Hoffpauir
USJFCOM Public Affairs

(SUFFOLK, Va. – April 13, 2007) -– Secretary of the Air Force Michael W. Wynne visited U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) here today to gain insight into how the command supports the warfighter.

USJFCOM Deputy Commander Army Lt. Gen. Bob Wood greeted Wynne as he arrived at the command's Joint Futures Laboratory (JFL) then gave the secretary an introduction and broad overview of the command's mission and responsibilities.

Following the introduction, Wynne toured the JFL and USJFCOM's Joint Warfighting Center where key USJFCOM leaders provided briefings on command facilities and organizations and demonstrations of developing capabilities.

He said one of the things that impressed him during the tour was the command’s evolution in since his last visit when he served as an undersecretary.

“I haven’t been back to Joint Forces Command in a couple of years,” Wynne said. “I would say that what I’ve found it’s much more focused on getting lessons learned converted into doctrine and training to really speed the process of not just lessons observed, but lessons learned.”

Demonstrations included:

• The Joint Semi-Automated Forces modeling and simulation environment
• The Cross Domain Collaborative Information Environment
• Joint Intelligence Operational Center - Transformation
• The Joint National Training Capability
• The Joint Center for Operational Analysis
• The Joint Deployment Training Center

Wynne also received briefings on many of USJFCOM's joint enabling capabilities, including:

• Standing Joint Force Headquarters
• The Joint Public Affairs Support Element
• The Joint Communications Support Element
• The Joint Personnel Recovery Agency
• The Joint Warfare Analysis Center

The secretary's tour continued with a stop at USJFCOM’s Joint Systems Integration Command (JSIC), where he received briefings on JSIC, the command's work as the Department of Defense's joint command and control capability portfolio manager, and the Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team. Wynne also received a briefing on the USJFCOM role as DoD’s global force provider before joining the command’s senior leaders for a working luncheon.

The secretary also noted the command’s leadership in training transformation, creating new opportunities for learning through the Keystone, Capstone and Pinnacle senior leader training programs. He said the programs incorporate those lessons into what really constitutes a joint and interdependent fight.

“That joint and interdependent fight is really going to be the next generation American way of war,” Wynne said. “I think that’s one thing that I have been working for and toward and I think Joint Forces Command is actually ahead of me.

“I have tried to say that the Air Force sets the strategic and perhaps the tactical conditions for victory,” he continued. “But it involves a joint, interdependent fight where the Air Force is better defined as forces across the air, and where the ground commanders really have the necessary tools and training to really complete the action. Here it’s coming together.”