Overview

• The Air Force’s command, control, communications, and battle management office will stand up an integrated program office next week to take over the Joint Fires Network.
• The organization is being structured as a combined Air Force, Navy, and DISA office with participation from the Army, following a summer transition that included posting a senior colonel to San Diego.
• The Department of the Air Force was designated the executive agent for JFN last year, and a memo from Undersecretary William LaPlante assigned responsibility to PEO C3BM.
• PEO C3BM has centralized Air Force command-and-control procurement, absorbing C2ISR, Kessel Run, the airspace mission planning team, and the aerial networks division.
• JFN originated as an INDOPACOM experiment to realize CJADC2 by linking sensors and shooters, with progress challenged by stovepiped systems that led each theater to build its own approach.