Command and Control

JOINT PLANNING AND EXECUTION SERVICES

Overview

The Joint Planning and Execution Services (JPES) is the DoD's IT system that supports the policies, processes, procedures, and reporting structures needed to plan, execute, mobilize, deploy, employ, sustain, redeploy, and demobilize activities associated with Joint Operations. This service assists in the evaluation of processes and thus transforms the execution of Joint Operations.

Value to Our Mission Partners

JPES is a portfolio of capabilities that supports the contingency (deliberate), crisis action planning processes which rapidly transforms those joint operations plans into execution (movement) orders for the warfighters. Key elements of JPES include the JPES Framework (JFW) and Joint Force Projection (JFP).The JFW is a suite of software “infrastructure” components and services to support management, storage of, and access control to JPES data as web services enabled data objects as well as data distribution, synchronization, data business rule enforcement and workflow management in support of JPES capabilities.

The JFP Portal provides a single, integrated force projection picture that links operators and logisticians at Service, Joint, and Agency levels using real-time, web-based, and network-centric information systems. The JCRM is a web-based GFM tool that increases the efficiency of the GFM process by providing senior DoD decision makers with a consolidated database of joint forces, capabilities, and requirements. JCRM will transition to DISA from JS J31 in the July 2012 timeframe.

JPES capabilities consist of support operations, helpdesk, software license renewals, software error correction, information assurance vulnerability alert (IAVA) compliance in the Secret, development, training, and COOP nodes. Future efforts are aimed at completing the enhancement of adaptive planning and execution capabilities.

Features

  • Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES) Information Technology (IT) Sustainment: The Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES) is an integrated joint command and control IT system used to support military operations to include planning, execution and monitoring activities. JOPES incorporates policies, procedures, personnel, and facilities by interfacing with Automated Data Processing (ADP) systems, reporting systems and underlying Global Command and Control System – Joint (GCCS-J) ADP support to provide senior-level decision makers and their staffs with enhanced capability to plan and conduct joint military operations. JOPES procedures and ADP systems are the mechanisms for submitting movement requirements to USTRANSCOM for Joint operations and exercises. JOPES includes several sub-systems and tools such as JOPES Editing Tool (JET), Rapid Query Tool (RQT), TPFDD Management Tool (TMT), JOPES Permissions (JPERMS), etc. for creating, updating and controlling access to the Time-Phased Force and Deployment Data (TPFDD). This networked system ensures that all participants involved in all aspects of joint military planning and execution use the same vocabulary, procedures and joint ADP support, thus facilitating the transition from training to planning to effective military operations.

  • Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES) Information Technology (IT) Modernization: The JOPES IT system has been serving the community in this capacity for a number of years but is in need of modernization to continue to support the increased demand on the system as well as to bring the architecture in line with overall DoD guidance. JOPES Modernization will start with the planning phase in FY13 and conclude in FY17 when the existing JOPES IT legacy system has been modernized.

  • JPES Framework (JFW): The JFW is composed of software “infrastructure” components that provide management, storage, and access to authoritative planning data. Data objects will be exposed through secure Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) based web services and synchronized with other planning databases as well as geographically distributed nodes. JFW will also include a separate business rules engine as well as a workflow manager in support of Adaptive Planning & Execution processes. A few of the core capabilities of JFW are:
    • JPES Permission Manager (JPM): Manages permissions for JOPES planning data and JPES data objects.
    • Data Virtualization Layer (DVL): Provides a high performance, in-memory federation of existing Authoritative Data Sources (ADS) exposed through secure SOAP based web services. JPES applications will be able to connect to the DVL to read from and write to disparate ADS.
    • JPES Policy Decision Point (PDP): Provides Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) through the use of a PDP which leverages Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) Policy Store and Local attribute Store to make, permit, or deny access decisions on JPES resources.

    • Widgets: The JPES PMO is currently developing Joint Command and Control widgets which are small “lightweight” web applications with limited functionality and a narrow scope that can be installed and executed within the Enterprise Storefront. A widget allows the user to achieve a single goal and can be developed to be interoperable with other widgets in order to provide an end user with additional functionality.

    • Joint Capabilities Requirements Manager (JCRM): JCRM is a web-based software application that enables the Global Force Management (GFM) allocation process using a net-centric compliant architecture leveraging multiple authoritative data sources across the Department of Defense (DoD). It is the single software application for submitting and/or managing all force requirements (Emergent, Rotational, Exercise, Individual Augmentation and Contingency Planning). GFM aligns force apportionment, assignment, and allocation in support of the National Defense Strategy (NDS), joint force availability requirements, and joint force assessments. It provides comprehensive insights into the global availability of U.S. military forces/capabilities and provides senior decision makers a process to quickly and accurately assess the impact and risk of proposed changes in forces/capability assignment, apportionment, and allocation.

    • Preferred Force Generation (PFG): PFG provides an expedited method to model sourcing solutions for force requirements represented in a course of action scenario. PFG is used by a command to rapidly convert “type-based” force data into actual units in order to continue planning and analysis with more complete force information.

    Rates

    Cost of this service is covered by DISA with no charge to the end user.

    How to Order

    Please call:

    Phone: (301) 225-5342
    DSN: 375-5342

    Phone: (301)225-5267
    DSN: 375-5267