Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JFCC-ISR)

Commander
Lieutenant General Ronald L. Burgess, Jr.

Website:
http://www.dia.mil/
(restricted site - requires CAC)

Mission Statement
In support of USSTRATCOM’s global ISR mission, JFCC ISR will develop strategies and plans; integrate national, DoD, and international partner capabilities; and execute DoD ISR operations to satisfy combatant command and national operational and intelligence requirements.

Background
Established in March 2005 as a component of USSTRATCOM, JFCC ISR conducts planning to employ DoD ISR resources to meet national, departmental and combatant command requirements. In coordination with the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, U.S. Joint Forces Command, the military services and other mission partners, JFCC ISR ensures the integration of DoD and national ISR efforts to satisfy combatant command and national operational and intelligence requirements. JFCC ISR synchronizes the use of national, DoD, and allies’ ISR capabilities with employment of theater ISR resources and, when appropriate, with other collection activities, including human intelligence, measurement and signature intelligence, signals intelligence, imagery intelligence, and open source intelligence. JFCC ISR planning includes an assessment of potential risks and intelligence gaps associated with proposed options, and recommends actions to mitigate risks and gaps. When options involve use of theater ISR assets, JFCC ISR communicates with theater and service operations and intelligence staffs to coordinate operations and to resolve competition for ISR resources. JFCC ISR monitors the execution of planned ISR activities. JFCC ISR generates an ISR Global Situation Awareness display and shares data from that display with appropriate entities. As data is collected and becomes useable, JFCC ISR ensures its availability to the widest body of operators, planners and analytic organizations. JFCC ISR evaluates collected data and recommends adjustments to plans or other actions to improve collection results.

Current Operations
JFCC ISR plans, executes and integrates ISR activities in support of USSTRATCOM's strategic and global missions. The JFCC ISR Area Of Interest (AOI) extends worldwide, from underwater to space and overlays, but does not affect other areas of responsibilities assigned to combatant commands. This AOI includes the full spectrum of military needs, including transnational threats, Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Global War on Terror. The Component's four Divisions: Operations, Plans and Strategy, Assessments, and Special Activities execute:

• Develop and maintain a Global Situational Awareness display of deployed ISR
• Participate in adaptive planning to support combatant commands' Intelligence Campaign Planning efforts
• Recommend allocation strategies based on operational and intelligence requirements
• Help combatant commands synchronize DoD collection with activities of national/international ISR collectors
• Recommend actions to persuade or dissuade adversaries through the use of ISR operations
• Manage the special activities approval process to synchronize and optimize use of ISR assets
• Help develop courses of action and options to mitigate consequent risks and gaps
• Use modeling/simulation tools to test support plans and determine optimal allocation of ISR assets
• Assess/identify/define gaps, shortfalls, priorities and redundancies of ISR capabilities
• Integrate ISR Special Activities in support of combatant command requirements

Personnel
JFCC ISR is authorized 105 billets.

(Current as of September 2009)