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National Defense May 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell	Successful Net-Centric Operations Require Joint Testing The wars U.S. forces are fighting today---and can be expected to fight in the foreseeable future---undoubtedly are shaping the military services' requirements for new and improved technology.
National Defense December 2004 Harold Kennedy	Military Steps Up Training For Joint Close-Air Support The U.S. Joint Forces Command is increasing its efforts to ensure that aviators from all military services follow the same procedures when they provide joint close-air support to ground troops during combat.
National Defense September 2013 Jeffrey Trumbore	Combat Experience of Bomb-Disposal Teams Should Be Codified The last 12 years of conflict have firmly established the roles of explosive ordnance disposal teams in supporting joint operations.
National Defense June 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Air-Ground Coordination in the Battlefield Found Lacking Lack of direct communications between pilots in the cockpit and troops on the ground in Iraq impede close-air support operations, says a Navy air wing commander.
National Defense December 2004 Michael Peck	Quick Mission Rehearsals Goal of Joint Training Slashing the rehearsal time needed for joint training missions from months to days is one of the goals of the joint national training capability (JNTC), a concept designed to move joint warfare from rhetoric to reality.
National Defense April 2004 Roxana Tiron	Computer Simulations Bolster Joint-Service Combat Training Connecting combat simulations in real time, so commanders and war planners from all services can train together, has proved to be a tough technical issue for the Defense Department. Last year, the Pentagon cancelled the multibillion-dollar Joint Simulation Systems program, as a result of cost overruns and poor performance.
National Defense April 2004 Roxana Tiron	Joint-Service Needs Shape Marine Training Programs The Marine Corps is taking steps to align its training programs with joint requirements, officials said. Under the Defense Department's umbrella project called the Joint National Training Capability, the Marines are, for the first time, investing in technologies such as range instrumentation, to ensure they can participate in JNTC training events.
National Defense December 2004 Michael Peck	Battle Experiments Mixing live and virtual troops in a multinational force was one of the biggest challenges facing organizers of a Joint Forces Command exercise last summer.
National Defense December 2005 Michael Peck	Joint Staff Officers Often Unprepared for New Jobs Military officers assigned to newly-created "joint staff" jobs arrive with little or no training on how to function in a multi-service environment.
National Defense March 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	War Lessons Should Not Be Politicized, Says CENTCOM Chief The organization in charge of gathering and reporting those lessons, the U.S. Joint Forces Command, deployed teams and embedded them with units in the field to get a first-hand look at the operations.
National Defense April 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Air Force Kicks Off Staff Reorganization Air Force officials intend to have in place by October nine new war-fighting headquarters that are intended to improve efficiency when organizing combat efforts.
National Defense November 2004 Roxana Tiron	Pentagon Seeks Joint Doctrine, Training for Personnel Recovery Despite accounting for each and every missing soldier in the Iraq war the combat search and rescue community is stretched thin and grappling with gaps ranging from policy to training.
National Defense August 2006 David Axe	Training Center Simulates Army's Digital Battle Command Technology A new high-tech facility will allow Army planners to concoct realistic training scenarios for units heading to Iraq. These advanced computer networks will connect real-world Army battle-command and control systems with digital simulations.
National Defense September 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Engineers Ponder `Modest Adjustments' for Connecting Forces Incompatible weapon systems and disjointed information networks continue to be a source of frustration at the Defense Department.
National Defense November 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Services Sign Off on Common Procedures for Close-Air Support In an effort to reduce the risk of friendly fire and make close-air support more helpful to ground troops, U.S. military aviators from all branches of the armed forces are now required to follow common guidelines.
National Defense July 2007 Grace Jean	Army, Air Force Should Combine Combat Training To reflect the way the services are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, officials are attempting to integrate aviation training into pre-deployment exercises at the Army's National Training Center in Fort Irwin, Calif.
National Defense March 2008 Stew Magnuson	Goal of a `Network-Centric' Military Seems Distant Unblocking communications and data sharing barriers is necessary if the military will achieve its longtime goal of becoming a network-centric force.
Parameters Autumn 2007 Gregory L. Cantwell	Nation-Building: A Joint Enterprise When America's Army is at war, is the nation also at war?
National Defense July 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Urban Fighting Highlights Need for Smaller Weapons The U.S. military services spend billions of dollars on precision-guided bombs, missiles and artillery shells, which, for the most part, have proved inadequate for urban fighting in Iraqi cities.
National Defense September 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Incompatible Technologies Weaken Utility of Aerial Spies The military services operate nearly 4,000 unmanned aircraft, most of which have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. The Army alone is flying 1,200 drones in surveillance combat missions.
National Defense May 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Comrades in Arms With Penchant for Bitter Rivalries Retired four-star general and West Point professor Barry McCaffrey marvels at the miracle of joint-service combat power.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 Ben Ames	Military Warns Contractors About Pitfalls of Joint Weapons Design Pentagon planners are pushing the different service branches to share equipment and split the cost of customized-weapons development. This joint operation will help transform the American military into a lighter, faster force, they say.
National Defense March 2004 Roxana Tiron	Lack of Common Technology Still a Problem in Air Combat Although NATO leaders have expressed interest in acquiring interoperable technologies for tactical aircraft, the alliance is far from having a common information backbone, according to Gen. Robert Foglesong, the commander of U.S. Air Forces Europe.
National Defense January 2005 Roxana Tiron	Deployment of Sea Bases Faces Technical, Budgetary Challenges The notion that ground forces can be launched, supported and sustained solely from ships at sea is still new to the Army and the Air Force, and the Defense Department has yet to figure out how to pay for this capability.
National Defense April 2005 Harold Kennedy	Special Operations Command Plans for Expanded Role in U.S. War on Terrorism The new role for special operations forces would not interfere with the U.S. Central Command's leadership in Iraq or Afghanistan.
National Defense July 2006 Grace Jean	U.K. Defense Procurement Entirely `Joint' While the U.S. military continues to debate how best to develop and procure joint-service weapons systems, in nations such as the United Kingdom, the entire defense acquisition system is based upon joint requirements.
CIO August 15, 2002 Simone Kaplan	Marching in Sync Integration is difficult in the best of circumstances. When you're the U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) and your integration project involves four branches of the military and dozens of government agencies, it's an almost insurmountable challenge.
National Defense April 2006 Claude V. Christianson	Joint Logistics: A Personal Perspective We have an opportunity to significantly advance our systems, processes and organizations to improve support for the joint force commander -- and we must seize it, says this Army Lt. Gen. and director for logistics on the Joint Staff.
National Defense May 2006 Stew Magnuson	Despite Advances, Air Strikes Fall Short of Expectations The Joint Forces Command will launch a demonstration program this year to improve communications between the armed services and the intelligence communities. The goal is to decrease the time it takes to put bombs on elusive terrorist targets.
National Defense July 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Air Force Seeking Funds to Connect Weapons in Flight The Air Force expects to get approval later this year to begin a two-year $30 million program to evaluate the use of communication devices aboard precision-guided missiles and bombs.
National Defense July 2007 Grace Jean	Combat Drills Stress Air-Ground Coordination The elaborate coordination required to synchronize events on the ground with air maneuvers often is not mastered until units are in actual combat.
National Defense December 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Mathematical Models: The Latest Weapons Against Urban Insurgencies The Defense Department is asking for models of social agendas and social behaviors to help them win the war.
National Defense June 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Redefining Combat Among the hard lessons the U.S. Army is learning in Iraq is that the line between "major combat" and "stability operations" is blurred, at best, and that the enemy gets to decide when the war is finally over.
Parameters Summer 2004 Brownlee & Schoomaker	Serving a Nation at War: A Campaign Quality Army with Joint and Expeditionary Capabilities The United States is driving a rapid evolution in the methods and techniques of war.
National Defense August 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Future War: How The Game is Changing "It's hard to concentrate on a grand strategy when your house is on fire," said Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, head of U.S. Joint Forces Command. Even as they cope with the frantic demands of two major wars, military leaders say they have a clearer sense of the future than they did in the 1990s.
National Defense December 2013	Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Readers comment on stories concerning explosive ordnance disposal, the use of drones domestically, and the fight to retain the A-10 Warthog in Air Force inventory.
National Defense June 2015 Haber & Jeffress	Pentagon Must Tread Carefully On 'Joint' Weapon Acquisitions With downward budgetary pressures on U.S. defense spending, it will be worth watching how the Pentagon moves forward with joint-service acquisitions.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 Ben Ames	Engineers Learn to Blend Technologies in Joint Fighting Platforms To work effectively in joint warfighting, systems must be designed to cooperate from their inception, not patched together after the fact, says Navy Admiral Walter F. Doran, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
National Defense January 2004 Carolyn Maloney	Advanced Technology Demonstrations Proven in Iraq The war in Iraq helped demonstrate several Defense Department research and development programs that started out more than a decade ago as Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations.
National Defense May 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	In Today's Wars, Air Strikes Under Fire The Air Force and the Army feud over who gets to be in charge of the "big guns" on the battlefield. The rivalry has become irrelevant in current wars, where one doesn't win by killing, but by gaining the trust of the population.
National Defense August 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Air Power: Where's the Love? Why is air power being blamed for the lack of progress in Afghanistan?
National Defense September 2007 Grace Jean	Small Unit Leaders Need Better Training Marine Corps planners have begun a series of combat experiments designed to sharpen the skills of dismounted troops.
National Defense June 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	A Never-Ending Feud Over Roles and Missions The Army vs. Air Force feud over unmanned aircraft has escalated in recent months.
National Defense April 2004 Steve Callicutt & Larry McKee	Air Force Takes Lead in Net-Centric Operations The U.S. military services have made significant progress in networking their weapons systems and sharing battlefield data during the last 10-15 years. But more work is needed to ensure seamless information flow and to improve joint command-and-control.
National Defense February 2005 Roxana Tiron	Efforts to Deploy Sea Bases Could Draw Lessons From Special Warfare As the U.S. military attempts to develop the technology and doctrine that will allow it to launch and sustain missions solely from the sea, special operations forces have been carrying out such operations on a smaller scale for more than two decades, according to a top Navy official.
National Defense August 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Washington Pulse Joint Warfare Has Its Drawbacks... Naval Aviators Told To Tighten Belt... Marines Shifting Non-Combat Jobs to Civilians... Military Training Programs Could See Cutbacks...
National Defense April 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	War Realities Call for New Approach to Logistics The United States, for decades, has served as the world's model for how to plan and execute military logistics, but it's clear that the growing demands of global deployments and rapid-response operations call for changes in how the nation supports and sustains its forces.
Parameters Winter 2005/2006 Mitchell J. Thompson	Breaking the Proconsulate: A New Design for National Power There have been few truly transformational changes to the institutions of national security, only slight modifications to the existing ones.
National Defense April 2004 Mike Cast	Army-Led Team Probes Joint Logistics Gaps The U.S. Army Developmental Test Command is sponsoring a test and evaluation program aimed at improving joint logistics processes.
National Defense April 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Research Chief Takes Steps to Link Incompatible Weapons Despite years and billions of dollars spent to develop networking technologies, some major weapon systems today still lack basic connectivity to exchange information with other systems. Two initiatives are addressing this issue.