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Organization Located at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Neb., U.S. Strategic
Command is one of nine unified commands in the Department of
Defense. 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.
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. Global Innovation and Strategy Center (GISC) - The GISC
mission is to produce knowledge discovery and shared understanding of
strategic, operational and tactical perspectives to provide solutions to
USSTRATCOM's toughest problems. The GISC is an academic facility that
will bring together, in a cooperative effort, members of the public and
private sector (military, political, academia, private sector, and media
experts) and formalizes a process established soon after Sept. 11, 2001,
with a focus on analyzing national and international security issues by
leveraging expertise from the aforementioned elements of national power.
This stimulates the development of innovative courses of action and
comprehensive strategies to respond global threats against the United
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