JP 1, Doctrine for the Armed Forces of the United States - Defense ...

Chapter II
c. Interagency Coordination and Integration
(1) The guidelines for interagency coordination ensure that all participating
departments and agencies under appropriate authority focus their efforts on national
objectives. The Armed Forces of the United States have unique capabilities to offer the
interagency community. These include established military-to-military domestic and
international contacts, resources (e.g., logistics) not available to nonmilitary agencies, trained
civil affairs (CA) personnel and their assets, and responsiveness based on military training
and readiness. Additional unique military capabilities include C2 resources supported by
worldwide communications and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR)
infrastructures; cyberspace capabilities; robust organizational and planning processes;
training support for large numbers of individuals on myriad skills; and air, land, and
maritime mobility support for intertheater or intratheater requirements.
(2) Interorganizational Coordination in Foreign Areas
(a) Interorganizational coordination in foreign areas may involve the exercise
of USG policy regarding internationally recognized law; preexisting bilateral and multilateral
military relationships, agreements, and arrangements managed by US embassies; treaties
involving US defense interests, implementation of CCMD theater security cooperation
activities; and initiatives concerning technology transfer or armaments cooperation and
control, foreign humanitarian assistance, peace operations, or other contingencies.
(b) At the national level, DOS leads the effort to support interagency
coordination overseas, forming task-oriented groups or employing the NSC system to
organize the effort.
(c) The formal US interagency structure in foreign countries operates under the
lead of the US chief of mission, normally an ambassador, and the country team and may
include US embassy PA and cultural affairs representation. The chief of mission is
ordinarily the lead for interagency coordination abroad that is essentially nonmilitary in
nature but requires military participation, with representation and control of the military
operations provided by the JFC.
(d) Within an AOR, the GCC is responsible for planning and implementing
military strategies and operations and interorganizational coordination. Coordination
required outside the geographic region may be supported by groups within the NSC system
or individual USG departments and agencies, with lead for such coordination falling to the
CCMD or the USG department or agency, depending on the circumstances. In some
operations, a special representative of the President or special envoy of the UN Secretary-
General may be involved.
(3) Domestic Interagency Coordination
(a) For HS-related interagency coordination that may require military
participation in countering domestic terrorism and other support tasks, DHS has the lead.
For HD interagency coordination, DOD will have the lead. DHS is the primary forum for
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