Joint Metoc Handboo - IHMC Ontology and Policy Management

1 - Joint Structure and Organization
and war and in support of the regional combat commanders, American ambassadors and
their country teams, and other government agencies.
1.2.1.7 USSPACECOM.
A functional unified command that conducts joint space operations to include: Space
Forces Support--placing satellites in space and operating them; Space Force Enhancement-
-supporting the warfighter with intelligence, communications, weather (including space
weather), navigation, and ballistic missile attack warning products; Space Force
Application--applying force from or through space against terrestrial targets; and Space
Force Control--enforcing space superiority through protection, negation, and surveillance.
1.2.1.8 USSTRATCOM.
A functional unified command that assesses the potential for, and deter, any military attack
on the United States and its allies, and should deterrence fail, employ forces to achieve
national objectives. Employment, if it should prove necessary, will include command and
control of strategic forces and providing support to other combatant command
commanders.
1.2.1.9 USTRANSCOM.
A functional unified command that provides global air, land and sea transportation to meet
national security objectives by maintaining command and control of lift forces and
logistical infrastructure, setting operational lift policy, providing crisis planning for force
deployment and sustainment, providing Joint Operations Planning and Execution System
(JOPES) training worldwide, and advocating improvements to the common user mobility
systems.
1.2.2 Unified Command METOC, Components, and Supporting METOC Staff
Organizations.
Most unified commands have a Senior METOC Officer (SMO) assigned, to provide and
arrange support for the command and its operations. As Quadrennial Defense Review
manpower reductions occur, some unified commands are losing in-house METOC support.
Each unified command has Service components that provide forces to the command. In
many instances, each component has a supporting METOC organization (component
contact information is available in applicable Service chapters of this Handbook).
1.2.2 1 USJFCOM.
USJFCOM has two METOC billets (1 Navy O-5, 1 AF O-4) and four component
commands: Air Combat Command (ACC), Forces Command (FORSCOM), Atlantic Fleet
(LANTFLT), and Marine Forces Atlantic (MARFORLANT), plus three sub-unified
commands: Iceland Defense Force, U.S. Forces Azores, and Special Operations Command
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