UNITED STATES STRATEGIC COMMAND – J2 INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORATE – OCP

UNITED STATES STRATEGIC COMMAND (USSTRATCOM)

U.S. Strategic Command is one of eleven unified combatant commands in the Department of War, stationed at Offutt AFB, NE.

USSTRATCOM integrates and coordinates the necessary command and control capability to provide support with the most accurate and timely information for the President, the Secretary of War, other national leadership and combatant commanders.

The mission of USSTRATCOM is to conduct operations to deter strategic attack and employ forces, as directed, to guarantee the security of the nation and our allies. The command enables Joint Force operations and is the combatant command responsible for Strategic Deterrence, Nuclear Operations, Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) Enterprise Operations, Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations, Global Strike and Missile Threat Assessment.

USSTRATCOM combines the synergy of the U.S. legacy nuclear command and control mission with responsibility for global strike operations. This dynamic command gives national leadership a unified resource for greater understanding of specific threats around the world and the means to respond to those threats rapidly.

The Global Operations Center, or GOC, is the nerve center for USSTRATCOM. The GOC is responsible for the global situational awareness of the Commander, USSTRATCOM, and is the mechanism by which he exercises operational command and control of the Nation’s global strategic forces.

The missions of U.S. Strategic Command are to deter attacks on U.S. vital interests, to ensure U.S. freedom of action in space and cyberspace, to deliver integrated kinetic and non-kinetic effects to include nuclear and information operations in support of U.S. Joint Force Commander operations, to synchronize global missile defense plans and operations, to synchronize regional combating of weapons of mass destruction plans, to provide integrated surveillance and reconnaissance allocation recommendations to the SECDEF, and to advocate for capabilities as assigned.

Component Structure: JFCC – Global Strike (JFCC-GS) Offutt AFB, NE, conducts kinetic (nuclear and conventional) and non-kinetic effects planning. GS manages global force activities to assure allies and to deter and dissuade actions detrimental to the United States and its global interests; should deterrence fail, employs global strike forces in support of combatant commander.

JFCC – Space (JFCC-SPACE) Vandenberg AFB, CA, continuously coordinates, plans, integrates, commands and controls space operations to provide tailored, responsive, local and global effects, and on order, denies the enemy the same, in support of national, USSTRATCOM, and combatant commander objectives.

JFCC – Network Warfare (JFCC-NW) Fort Meade, MD, plans, and when directed, executes operations in and through cyberspace to assure US and allied freedom of action, denying adversaries’ freedom of action, and enabling effects beyond the cyber domain.

Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations (JTF-GNO) Arlington, VA, directs the operation and defense of the Global Information Grid to assure timely and secure Net-Centric capabilities across strategic, operational, and tactical boundaries in support of Department of Defense full spectrum warfighting, intelligence, and business missions.

JFCC – Integrated Missile Defense (JFCC-IMD) Schriever AFB, CO, synchronizes operational-level global missile defense planning, operations support, and the development of missile defense effects for DoD. When directed, also provides alternate missile defense execution support.

JFCC – Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JFCC-ISR) Bolling AFB, Washington, D.C. identifies and recommends appropriate resources to meet high priority intelligence requirements. Essentially, ISR helps ensure the best use of resources to provide decision makers and troops with crucial information when and where they need.

Joint Information Operations Warfare Command (JIOWC) Lackland AFB, TX, uses information as a tool to change attitudes or perceptions, creating desired results. Information Operations tactics help protect United States interests while disrupting the adversary’s capabilities.

USSTRATCOM Center for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (SCC-WMD) Fort Belvoir, VA, provides the Defense Department with expertise in contingency and crisis planning to interdict and eliminate the proliferation or use of Weapons of Mass Destruction.