JP 3-01 Countering Air and Missile Threats - Defense Innovation ...

Command and Control
The AAMDC conducts split-based operations to provide the necessary support and deploys
liaison teams to major theater C2 headquarters to ensure Army AMD assets are integrated
and synchronized in joint operations. The commander, AAMDC, also commands all Army
theater-level AMD forces.
Refer to JP 3-31, Command and Control for Joint Land Operations, for more detailed
information regarding the JFLCC and joint land operations.
(2) JFMCC. The JFMCC is the single commander for joint maritime operations
and is normally supported by a maritime operations center (MOC). The JFMCC is
responsible for accomplishing the joint sea control mission using multipurpose ships
executing multiple missions simultaneously. The JFMCC typically has robust AMD
capabilities that can be employed in support of joint counterair. Due to the interrelated
nature of air, surface, and subsurface operations, if the JFC establishes a maritime AO, it
may include a congruent regional or sector AD command covering the open ocean and
littorals, for which the JFMCC should be granted sufficient authorities to conduct operations
and defend fleet units, including the authority to engage missile platforms such as
submarines, patrol boats, and aircraft, or coastal defense CMs. In the case of maritime air
defense regions, the JFMCC may recommend a subordinate maritime commander who
possesses planning and battle management capabilities to the AADC for assignment as a
RADC/SADC (e.g., CTF IAMD or AMDC).
(3) The JFMCC normally provides aircraft sorties for counterair tasking under
TACON of the JFACC/AADC, but retains OPCON/TACON of multipurpose AMD capable
ships providing their AMD capabilities in support to the JFACC/AADC.
(4) Task force IAMD is a functionally based Navy organization to which the
numbered fleet commander (NFC), who may be the JFMCC, assigns a CTF IAMD with
selected planning and execution authorities. CTF IAMD provides a standardized C2 layer
between the NFC and subordinate maritime commanders focused on tactical level missions.
Refer to Navy Warfare Publication (NWP) 3-32, Maritime Operations at the Operational
Level of War, and NTTP 3-32.1, Maritime Operations Center, for additional discussion of
Navy C2 and CTF IAMD.
(5) JFSOCC. The JFSOCC may be the commander, theater special operations
command, a subordinate unified command under a GCC. Under a JFC subordinate to the
GCC, the JFSOCC may be a designated commander, joint special operations task force
(CDRJSOTF). The JFSOCC/CDRJSOTF can provide OCA support through employment of
some of their core activities such as direct action, special reconnaissance, unconventional
warfare, and information operations (IO), normally in enemy territory. Those core
operations and activities represent the collective capabilities of all SOF rather than those of
any one unit. Normally, SOF have no capability to support DCA outside of self-defense
using small arms or man-portable air defense system (MANPADS). The JFSOCC normally
provides a special operations liaison element (SOLE) to the JFACC at the JAOC and a
special operations C2 element to the JFLCC, and to the JFMCC, if necessary. The SOLE, in
close coordination with all JFSOCC components, coordinates and deconflicts SOF surface
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