Command and Control of Joint Air Operations
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combat operations division (COD). Divisions, cells, or teams within the JAOC should be
established as needed (see Appendix E, “Joint Air Operations Center Divisions and
Descriptions,” for JAOC divisions and descriptions). The JAOC director is responsible to
the JFACC for integrating the planning, coordinating, allocating, tasking, executing, and
assessing tasks for all joint air operations. The JAOC director coordinates with the director
of mobility forces (DIRMOBFOR) to meet airlift and tanker priorities with support of United
States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) mobility forces. Similarly, the JAOC
director coordinates space operations and space support requests with the SCA and/or US
Air Force component’s director of space forces. Planning future joint air operations and
assessing the effectiveness of past operations is usually the responsibility of the SD, while
the CPD is usually devoted to near-term planning and drafting of the daily ATO. Execution
of the daily ATO is carried out by the COD and closely follows the action of current joint
operations, shifting air missions from their scheduled times or targets, and making other
adjustments as the situation requires. The AMD integrates intertheater and intratheater
airlift, aerial refueling, and aeromedical evacuation (AE) into air plans and tasking orders
and coordinates with the JFC’s movement requirements and control authority and Air
Mobility Command’s 618th Air Operations Center (Tanker Airlift Control Center) (618
AOC [TACC]). The ISRD provides the JFACC with predictive and actionable intelligence,
targeting support, and collection management expertise to support the air tasking cycle. Each
of the JAOC’s major activities relies on expertise from liaisons (e.g., battlefield coordination
detachment [BCD], AAMDC liaison team, NALE, Air Force liaison element [AFLE],
SOLE, Marine liaison element [MARLE]) to coordinate requests or requirements and
maintain a current and relevant picture of the other component operations. For more on
liaisons, see Appendix F, “Liaison Elements within the Joint Air Operations Center.”
For further detail on air mobility, see Chapter III, “Planning and Execution of Joint Air
Operations,” paragraph 8, “Air Mobility Considerations,” and JP 3-17, Air Mobility
Operations.
(2) Functional Area and Mission Experts. Functional area experts (such as
force protection, intelligence, meteorological and oceanographic, logistics, legal, airspace,
plans, and communications personnel) provide the critical expertise in support, plans,
execution, and assessment functions. Mission experts in air-to-air, air-to-ground, ground-
to-air, space operations, cyberspace operations (CO), information activities, intelligence,
air refueling, PR, and other areas provide the technical warfighting expertise required to
plan for joint air operations and employ capabilities/forces made available by the
components. Functional and mission experts from all components will provide manning
throughout the JAOC and at all levels of command and may be organized in special teams.
Reachback capability can be used for technical issues related to planning, targeting,
collateral damage estimates, joint intelligence preparation of the operational environment
(JIPOE), and force protection. Examples of organizations that can provide reachback
support include the Defense Threat Reduction Agency National Countering Weapons of
Mass Destruction Technical Reachback Enterprise for weapons of mass destruction
(WMD) or chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) support and the
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for geospatial and national intelligence support.