This paper focuses on leveraging current technology in a process-oriented approach to leveraging capabilities resident in global intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets to meet the increasing demands of Joint Force Commanders (JFC). The pace of current military operations often requires information and intelligence to be available to the JFC faster than supporting communities are capable of providing it. As a result, a seam exists that hinders the ability of today's military commanders to achieve decision superiority over the nation's adversaries. Recent changes in Department of Defense policy and guidance are aimed at closing this seam with a renewed focus on ISR support to warfighters and changes in Combatant Commander (CoCom) missions to highlight this focus. United States Strategic Command has been tasked with integrating global ISR capabilities in an effort to build mechanisms by which JFC requirements can be met in the timelines needed. Concurrently, United States Joint Forces Command has developed the Standing Joint Force Headquarters (SJFHQ) construct with subsequent fielding to each of the regional CoComs. The mission of the SJFHQ is to be a center of excellence that understands the JFC's intent given a specific region or event and can create a collaborative planning and execution environment that can integrate the knowledge available from a variety of subject matter experts to provide the best possible situational awareness to the JFC. By combining these two staffs' efforts and focusing on the processes required to integrate them, the seam between national capabilities and operational problem sets can be eliminated using today's technology to meet today's warfighter requirement.
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