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Joint Force Development
b. The Joint Lessons Learned Program (JLLP) is focused on improving joint
preparedness and performance. Its primary objective is to enhance our abilities to conduct
joint operations by contributing to improvements in doctrine, organization, training, materiel,
leadership and education, personnel, facilities, and policy. It enhances joint force
capabilities by enabling learning and collaboration from joint activities, including
engagement, planning, training, exercises, experiments, operations, real-world events, and
other activities involving the Armed Forces of the United States. The JLLP improves
performance through discovery, evaluation, validation, and integration with learning and
resolution processes, to ensure lessons are learned and integrated across DOD. Learned
lessons are the building blocks that feed the revisions and updates to doctrine, education, and
training. They identify gaps and common issues, and lead to the capture and implementation
of best practices and experiences of DOD forces. Ultimately, this leads to the development
of new capabilities and improvements in the readiness of our forces. The JLLP is designed
to support the USG whole-of-government effort by sharing and collaborating learned lessons
information with other USG organizations and multinational partners.
For further guidance on the JLLP, refer to CJCSI 3150.25E, Joint Lessons Learned
Program.
8. Joint Concepts and Assessment
a. Joint concepts examine military problems and propose solutions describing how the
joint force, using military art and science, may operate to achieve strategic goals within the
context of the anticipated future security environment. Joint concepts lead to military
capabilities, both non-materiel and materiel, that significantly improve the ability of the joint
force to overcome future challenges.
b. Joint Concept Fundamentals
(1) Joint concepts provide solutions to compelling, real-world challenges both
current and envisioned for which existing doctrinal approaches and joint capabilities are
deemed inadequate. The absence of doctrine may indicate that the joint force has
encountered a situation with which there has been no previous experience. As battlefield
conditions, technology, and opposing force capabilities evolve, concept development
provides a means to address these challenges. Concepts proceed from an understanding of
existing doctrine or knowledge of existing capabilities. They must propose a clear
alternative to existing doctrine or augmentation of existing capabilities and demonstrate
evidence of significant operational value relative to the challenges under consideration.
(2) Joint concepts are idea-focused and are not constrained by existing policies,
treaties, laws, or technology. This permits the development of concepts that anticipate
conditions as they may exist in the future. In this way it is possible to start with an idea—a
visualization of how forces could successfully operate against specific challenges and across
the joint functions—and proceed to describe new employment methodologies for existing
capabilities as well as new capability requirements.
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