A. A command headquarters representing all four services, including Department of Defense civilians and contractors, oversees the command's operationally focused global strategic mission. The command is organized under a modified J-code structure as follows:

J0 The office of the Commander and the staff support agencies - J0 responsible for establishing the goals, mission, vision and leadership of the command. To help the commander, the immediate staff also includes the deputy commander in chief and a group of special advisors.

J1 (Manpower and Personnel) - develops and administers USSTRATCOM command manpower and personnel policies, human resources, and personnel assignment programs.

J3 (Global Operations) - coordinates the planning, employment and operation of DoD strategic assets and combines all current operations, global command and control and intelligence operations.

• J2 (Intelligence) - apprises the commander of foreign situations and intelligence issues relevant to current operational interests and potential national security policies, objectives and strategy. This includes providing indications, warning and crisis intelligence support, supporting unified command intelligence requirements, developing doctrine, developing joint architecture, coordinating support requirements and providing targeting support.
• J3B (Current Operations) - operates the Global Operations Center to provide the commander and the J3 with situational awareness, command and control, and integration across all mission areas. Conducts mission analysis, leads course of action development, and performs contingency and crisis action planning. Executes missions as directed by the Secretary of Defense and the President.
• J4 (Logistics) - Plans, coordinates and executes logistics functions for mobility, maintenance, engineering, readiness and sustainment and munitions management in support of command missions.
• J6 (C4 Systems) - coordinates, facilitates, monitors and assesses systems, networks and communications requirements.

J5 (Plans and Policy) - responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of national security policy as it applies to the command and the execution of its mission. Develops future concepts and policy formulation for military space operations; global strike; information operations; global missile defense; and command and control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance as outlined in the most recent Unified Command Plan. Integrates and synchronizes deliberate planning efforts across all USSTRATCOM missions. Prepares and maintains the nation's strategic nuclear war plan, and provides integrated global strike planning to deliver rapid, extended range, precision kinetic (nuclear and conventional) and non-kinetic (elements of space and information operations) effects in support of theater and national objectives. Performs day-to-day activities required for crisis-action and deliberate planning and execution, with updates to plans as necessary.

J8 (Capability and Resource Integration) - conducts force management and analysis to include integrating, coordinating, prioritizing , and advocating USSTRATCOM future concepts, mission capability needs, weapons system development, support for emerging technologies, and command and control architecture across the mission areas. Responsible for the articulation and development of all command requirement processes to ensure that USSTRATCOM has the tools to accomplish its mission, and ensures appropriate decision support tools and assessment processes are in place to enhance operational capabilities. The directorate includes comptroller support, concepts and experimentation, and force assessments.
 

USSTRATCOM exercises command authority over various task forces and service components in support of the command's mission. During day-to-day operations, service component commanders retain primary responsibility for maintaining the readiness of USSTRATCOM forces and performing their assigned functions. Their primary function is to provide organized, trained, and equipped forces for employment when called upon to support USSTRATCOM's global mission.