 Co-sponsored by AFCEA International and the U.S. Naval Institute, in coordination with U.S. Joint Forces Command and with support of the NDIA Greater Hampton Roads Chapter and AFCEA Hampton Roads and Tidewater Chapters.
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USJFCOM EngagementBooth
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U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) Engagement BoothBooth 1225 Command leaders will be on hand to engage with members of the Joint Force, Industry and conference participants to brief and discuss JFCOM.
Presentations are linked below. |
Tuesday, May 11
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
MG Stephen Layfield, USA
Director J7 JFCOM
The U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Training Directorate trains forces, develops doctrine, leads training requirements analysis and provides a globally distributed and interoperable training environment to improve joint force readiness. It coordinates the military's overall joint training efforts to ensure it is the most advanced and powerful force in the world while working with a range of partners including the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the services, combatant commands, and interagency and multinational communities.
LTG Karlheinz Viereck, German Air Force
DCOS Joint Force Trainer/ACT
The Joint Force Trainer (JFT) acts on behalf of SACT to direct and coordinate all ACT activities in NATO’s areas of interest to train and educate individuals and to support collective training and exercises, at all levels of command, to continually provide the Alliance with improved capabilities to undertake the full spectrum of Alliance missions.
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
RDML Lawrence S. Rice, USN
Director J5 JFCOM
Rear Admiral Lawrence S. Rice is the Director of Strategy and Policy (J5) for the US Joint Forces Command. In this capacity he and his team help the command accomplish its mission by developing strategy and policy, ensuring that it is within the National Military Strategy and other strategic frameworks.
BG José A.F. Demaria, Spanish Air Force
DCOS SPP/ACT
The Strategic Plans and Policy Division (SPP) encompasses the three strategic branches: Strategic Analysis (SA), Strategic Plans & Policy (SP), and Strategic Issues & Engagement (SIE) with the intent to develop and promote issues of strategic importance to transformation, articulate policies to direct Alliance transformation efforts and supports the development of NATO strategic level concepts which clarify how transformation may be achieved.
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Mr. James O'Connell
Director Joint Irregular Warfare Center (JIWC), USJFCOM
The Joint Irregular Warfare Center leads, coordinates, and integrates efforts across USJFCOM, the Department of Defense, and other partners to ensure the capabilities to conduct Irregular Warfare and Urban Operations are core competencies of the Joint Force.
RADM Christian Canova, French Navy
ACOS Capability Engineering/ ACT
ACOS Capability Engineering (CE) is the chairman of the recently set up NATO COunter-INsurgency Task Force (COIN TF) and is the dedicated deliverable director as far as Countering Hybrid Threats (CHT) is concerned. Ensuring synergy amongst all the relevant actors, ACOS CE focuses on development of concept and appropriate standards to meet the challenges posed by hybrid threats.
2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Maj Gen Kevin J. Kennedy, USAF
Director J8 JFCOM
Capability Development; serves as lead joint integrator for all of DoD's uniformed components and oversees the Joint Command and Control Capability Portfolio Management program. J8 works with the Combatant Commanders, Joint Staff, Services, and other federal departments and agencies to combine all of the military's capabilities into a single focused effort, connecting current capabilities to future concepts.
Lt Gen James Soligan, USAF (Ret.)
DCOS Capability Development/ACT
DCOS Capability Development acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation's Director for guidance, direction and coordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate. This Directorate consists of 26 branches that are functionally grouped to form 5 Divisions, which together with the Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (JALLC), have responsibility for the entire Capability Development Process (CDP).
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
RADM Dan W. Davenport, USN
Director J9 JFCOM
USJFCOM’s Joint Concept Development and Experimentation (JCD&E) Directorate (J9) leads the development of emerging joint concepts, conducts and enables joint experimentation, and coordinates DoD JCD&E efforts to provide joint capabilities that support the current and future joint force in meeting its most important security challenges. Producing innovative concepts and capabilities through joint experimentation is accomplished through its four core competencies: Experimentation, Concept Development, Capabilities and The Enterprise Approach.
RADM Christian Canova, French Navy
ACOS Capability Engineering/ ACT
ACOS Capability Engineering (CE) division initiates, undertakes and supports capability development by focusing on concepts, experiments, solutions development and analysis in order to contribute to address NATO capability shortfalls through Concept Development and Experimentation (CD&E). Leading agent and actual driver for Transformation, the CE division is the ACT focal point for collaboration with Industry, Academia and NATO Research and Technology Organization.
3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Col Jacqueline Walsh, USAF
J2A JFCOM
The USJFCOM Intelligence Directorate (J2) develops, integrates, trains, and provides joint intelligence capabilities to meet present and future needs of the joint force. The J2 vision is to make intelligence battle-ready. Current warfighter needs and emerging challenges have pushed the J2 to new heights in the areas of intelligence operations, training, integration, and concept development & experimentation.
MG Jaap Willemse, Netherlands Air Force
ACOS C4ISR/NNEC/ACT
This Division is SACT’s authority for C4ISR capability definition and development. As a key driver for NATO Network Enabled Capability (NNEC) the Division is responsible for the development and implementation of strategies and plans to enhance Command and Control, Communications and Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance capabilities which are coherent with each other, interoperable within NATO and with national systems and are consistent with the NNEC Strategic Framework.
Wednesday, May 12
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
MG Stephen Layfield, USA
Director J7 JFCOM
The U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Training Directorate trains forces, develops doctrine, leads training requirements analysis and provides a globally distributed and interoperable training environment to improve joint force readiness. It coordinates the military's overall joint training efforts to ensure it is the most advanced and powerful force in the world while working with a range of partners including the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the services, combatant commands, and interagency and multinational communities.
LTG Karlheinz Viereck, German Air Force
DCOS Joint Force Trainer/ACT
The Joint Force Trainer (JFT) acts on behalf of SACT to direct and coordinate all ACT activities in NATO’s areas of interest to train and educate individuals and to support collective training and exercises, at all levels of command, to continually provide the Alliance with improved capabilities to undertake the full spectrum of Alliance missions.
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Brig Gen Robert Yates, USAF
Director J3/4 JFCOM
The Operations, Plans, Logistics and Engineering Directorate, J3/4, sources and deploys trained and ready joint capable forces, implements adaptive planning, serves as the lead for the improvement of the joint deployment process, monitors force readiness and movement, and provides engineering and logistical expertise in support of USJFCOM’s mission.
RADM Antonio Hernandez, Spanish Navy
ACOS Joint Deployment & Sustainment/ACT
ACOS Joint Deployment and Sustainment (JD & S) manages, coordinates and integrates the Movement and Transportation, Medical and Logistics activities of ACT by acting as the single point of contact within ACT for these issues including policy, doctrine, planning, information systems and training. ACOS JD & S is the focal point for liaison with and the work of the Senior NATO Logisticians Conference (SNLC).
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
CAPT John Polowczyk, USN
Joint Forces Command Business Management Officer J02BM
The USJFCOM Business Management Office oversees government contracting in the command and helps improve the command's internal business processes by managing the solutions provided by Office of Research Technology Applications (ORTA), the Contract Acquisition Management Office (CAMO) and additionally provides oversight of the commands industry engagement program.
Dr. Eric Pouliquen
Future Solutions Modeling and Simulation/ACT
The function of the Future Solutions, Modeling & Simulation Branch is to promote and contribute to the development of solutions to current and projected future capability shortfalls that are appropriate for examination through the capability development process. To do this, the branch translates operational requirements into research, technology development and analysis efforts that are required to support the resolution of these capability shortfalls. This work is based upon trends in emerging and disruptive technologies, the capability development efforts in the nations and ongoing cooperative activities in NATO.
2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Maj Gen Kevin J. Kennedy, USAF
Director J8 JFCOM
Capability Development; serves as lead joint integrator for all of DoD's uniformed components and oversees the Joint Command and Control Capability Portfolio Management program. J8 works with the Combatant Commanders, Joint Staff, Services, and other federal departments and agencies to combine all of the military's capabilities into a single focused effort, connecting current capabilities to future concepts.
Lt Gen James Soligan, USAF (Ret.)
DCOS Capability Development/ACT
DCOS Capability Development acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation's Director for guidance, direction and coordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate. This Directorate consists of 26 branches that are functionally grouped to form 5 Divisions, which together with the Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (JALLC), have responsibility for the entire Capability Development Process (CDP).
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
RADM Dan W. Davenport, USN
Director J9 JFCOM
USJFCOM’s Joint Concept Development and Experimentation (JCD&E) Directorate (J9) leads the development of emerging joint concepts, conducts and enables joint experimentation, and coordinates DoD JCD&E efforts to provide joint capabilities that support the current and future joint force in meeting its most important security challenges. Producing innovative concepts and capabilities through joint experimentation is accomplished through its four core competencies: Experimentation, Concept Development, Capabilities and The Enterprise Approach.
RADM Christian Canova, French Navy
ACOS Capability Engineering/ ACT
ACOS Capability Engineering (CE) division initiates, undertakes and supports capability development by focusing on concepts, experiments, solutions development and analysis in order to contribute to address NATO capability shortfalls through Concept Development and Experimentation (CD&E). Leading agent and actual driver for Transformation, the CE division is the ACT focal point for collaboration with Industry, Academia and NATO Research and Technology Organization.
3:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Mr. James O'Connell
Director Joint Irregular Warfare Center (JIWC), USJFCOM
The Joint Irregular Warfare Center leads, coordinates, and integrates efforts across USJFCOM, the Department of Defense, and other partners to ensure the capabilities to conduct Irregular Warfare and Urban Operations are core competencies of the Joint Force.
RADM Christian Canova, French Navy
ACOS Capability Engineering/ ACT
ACOS Capability Engineering (CE) is the chairman of the recently set up NATO COunter-INsurgency Task Force (COIN TF) and is the dedicated deliverable director as far as Countering Hybrid Threats (CHT) is concerned. Ensuring synergy amongst all the relevant actors, ACOS CE focuses on development of concept and appropriate standards to meet the challenges posed by hybrid threats.
Thursday, May 13
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
CAPT Shawn Lobree, USN
Deputy Director J6 JFCOM
U.S. Joint Forces Command's (USJFCOM) Command, Control, Communications, and Computer (C4) Systems Directorate (J6) empowers the command to accomplish its mission by providing dependable information technology networks and generalized communications support. The J6 also provides the joint task force commander with communications and information technology solutions to support the command and control (C2) decision cycle, an information assurance program to protect against network attack, and ready-trained joint component communications personnel.
MG Jaap Willemse, Netherlands Air Force
ACOS C4ISR/NNEC/ACT
This Division is SACT’s authority for C4ISR capability definition and development. As a key driver for NATO Network Enabled Capability (NNEC) the Division is responsible for the development and implementation of strategies and plans to enhance Command and Control, Communications and Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance capabilities which are coherent with each other, interoperable within NATO and with national systems and are consistent with the NNEC Strategic Framework.
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
BG Anthony Crutchfield, USA
Director JCOA JFCOM
USJFCOM's JCOA collects, analyzes and disseminates lessons learned and best practices across the full spectrum of military operations in order to integrate recommendations and improve the joint force's warfighting capability. JCOA offers an active collection capability, with deployed teams supporting combatant commands, the Joint Staff and combat support agencies. The organization ensures that its findings, lessons and recommendations are integrated into relevant channels. JCOA also publishes briefs, reports, papers, journals and other products and shares directly with DoD, interagency and multinational partners. JCOA oversees the coordination of the rear and forward support elements for all USJFCOM activities in Iraq and Afghanistan.
BG Peter Sonneby, Danish Air Force
Commander, Joint Analysis & Lessons Learned Centre/ACT
The JALLC is NATO's lead agency for the analysis of operations, exercises, training and experiments, and for the collection and communication of lessons learned. JALLC deploys project teams worldwide, delivering analysis support to NATO at the strategic and operational levels. JALLC also hosts and manages NATO's Lessons Learned Database where lessons are captured, stored and processed. JALLC currently supports NATO's operations in Afghanistan and Kosovo. We also support NATO exercises for the NRF, and the Pre-Deployment Training for NATO’s operations, along with providing Lessons Learned outreach support to NATO entities and nations, and partners.
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Col Jacqueline Walsh, USAF
J2A JFCOM
The USJFCOM Intelligence Directorate (J2) develops, integrates, trains, and provides joint intelligence capabilities to meet present and future needs of the joint force. The J2 vision is to make intelligence battle-ready. Current warfighter needs and emerging challenges have pushed the J2 to new heights in the areas of intelligence operations, training, integration, and concept development & experimentation.
MG Jaap Willemse, Netherlands Air Force
ACOS C4ISR/NNEC/ACT
This Division is SACT’s authority for C4ISR capability definition and development. As a key driver for NATO Network Enabled Capability (NNEC) the Division is responsible for the development and implementation of strategies and plans to enhance Command and Control, Communications and Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance capabilities which are coherent with each other, interoperable within NATO and with national systems and are consistent with the NNEC Strategic Framework.