The initial focus for this three-week long experiment will be on the Joint Force Command and Control. Strong national defense is based on realistic preparation for a wide range of challenges. Scenario elements for this joint experiment represent an array of some of the most operationally challenging circumstances that face our Services' capabilities. Individual Service experimentation ensures each Service can achieve its core competencies. They show how well they work.
Joint experimentation shows how well it all works together.
There is good evidence that we have moved beyond the point where applying new technology to old organizations and processes is going to have anything but marginal transformational effects. UV 01 is attempting to look at how a joint war-fighting staff might be organized if emerging technologies and improved battlespace understanding enable them. Also, the current joint task force is an ad hoc organization. It is widely acknowledged that a standing Joint Force Headquarters will greatly improve our response to world situations. Processes usually drive organizations.