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JROC to Outline Requirements for Joint Warfighting Concept This Month

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, May 13th, 2021

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JROC to Outline Requirements for Joint Warfighting Concept This Month

Airmen from the 2nd Munitions Squadron transport the final Conventional Air-launched Cruise Missile (CALCM) to be demilitarized at Barksdale AFB, La. on Nov. 20, 2019 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

By the end of this month, the Pentagon Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) is to lay out requirements for the military services under the Joint Warfighting Concept’s (JWC) four areas–Joint Global Fires, Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2), Contested Logistics, and Information Advantage. "Here we stand now in 2021, and we have China and Russia making huge changes and going unbelievably fast," Air Force Gen. John Hyten, the JROC chairman, told the McAleese and Associates' FY2022 Defense Programs conference…

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