Joint Staff




The Joint Staff
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Agency overview
Formed1949
HeadquartersThe Pentagon
EmployeesApprox. 1,500
Agency executive
  • Lt Gen Glen D. VanHerck (DJS)
Parent agencyDepartment of Defense

The Joint Staff (JS):2020–01-24–100230-123 is a military headquarters staff based at the Pentagon, (with offices in Hampton Roads, Virginia, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington and Fort McNair, District of Columbia) composed of personnel from all the five armed services, assisting the chairman and the vice chairman in discharging their responsibilities. They work closely with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the military department staffs, and the Combatant Command staffs.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) is assisted by the director of the Joint Staff (DJS), a three-star officer who assists the chairman with the management of the Joint Staff, an organization composed of approximately equal numbers of officers contributed by the Army, the Navy and Marine Corps, the Air Force, and the Coast Guard, who have been assigned to assist the chairman in providing to the secretary of defense unified strategic direction, operation, and integration of the combatant land, naval, space, and air forces.

The 27th secretary of defense has tasked the Joint Staff with developing a Joint Warfighting ConceptJadConcept for the services by December 2020. Developing Joint all-domain command and control (JADC2) as a conceptJadConcept is a key goal of the 20th CJCS. An OSD/Joint Staff Cross-Functional Team for JADC2 is underway. The 27th secretary of defense ordered the four services and the Joint Staff to create a new joint warfighting concept for All-domain operations, operating simultaneously in the air, land, sea, space, cyber, and the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS). The Joint Chiefs and Combatant Commanders witnessed demonstrations of the concept in September 2020.

Organizationedit

The Joint Staff includes the following departments where all the planning, policies, intelligence, manpower, communications and logistics functions are translated into action.

  • Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
    • Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
      • Director, Joint Staff - assists the Chairman in his role as advisor to the President and Secretary of Defense, coordinates and directs activities of the Joint Staff in support of the Chairman, and serves as the staff inspector general.
        • Vice Director, Joint Staff
          • J1 - Director, Manpower and Personnel
          • J2 - Director, Intelligence
          • J3 - Director, Operations
          • J4 - Director, Logistics
          • J5 - Director, Strategy, Plans, and Policy
          • J6 - Director, Command, Control, Communications, and Computers / Chief Information Officer
          • J7 - Director, Joint Force Development
          • J8 - Director, Force Structure, Resources, and Assessment
          • Director of Management
          • Joint History Office - record activities of the chairman and the Joint Staff
      • Assistant to the Chairman - oversees matters requiring close personal control by the chairman with particular focus on international relations and politico-military concerns
      • Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman (SEAC) - advisor to the chairman on all matters involving joint and combined total force integration, utilization, health of the force, and joint development for enlisted personnel

Directorates of the Joint Staffedit

The Joint Staff includes the following departments where all the planning, policies, intelligence, manpower, communications and logistics functions are translated into action.

  • Joint Staff Information Management Division (United States)
  • DOM – Directorate of Management
  • J1 – Personnel and Manpower
  • J2 – Intelligence
    • The National Military Joint Intelligence Center (NMJIC) is part of the J2 directorate and is staffed by Defense Intelligence Agency personnel
  • J3 – Operations
    • The National Military Command Center (NMCC) is part of the J3 directorate
  • J4 – Logistics
  • J5 – Strategic Plans and Policy
  • J6 – Command, Control, Communications and Computers/Cyber
    • The J-6 directorate is one of a group of agencies that administer the SIPRNet. Other administrators include: the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Information Systems Agency. The J-6 chairs the DOD's Military Command, Control, Communications, and Computers Executive Board (MC4EB) which works in conjunction with the multinational Combined Communications-Electronics Board.
    • The J-6 Joint Deployable Analysis Team (JDAT) conducts assessments in conjunction with Combatant Command exercises, experiments, and test and evaluation events.
  • J7 – Joint Force Development
    • The J-7 is responsible for the six functions of joint force development: Doctrine, Education, Concept Development & Experimentation, Training, Exercises and Lessons Learned.
  • J8 – Force Structure, Resources, and Assessment

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