Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff Manual

This manual provides a standardized tool for describing requirements for the planning, conducting, assessing and evaluating of joint and multinational training.

This guide provides an overview of the Joint Training System(JTS) and highlights the role of senior leadership in the planning, execution, and assessment of joint training. The JTS is the command's training system. In broad terms, the JTS is designed to ensure the U.S. Armed Forces are trained and prepared to counter violent extremism, deter and defeat aggression, and strengthen international and regional security. More specifically, it provides a capabilities-based method for aligning training programs with assigned missions (GEF, GFMIG, JSCP, and UCP) consistent with command priorities, capabilities (both current and proposed), and available resources (TCP/CSP). The Joint Training Information Management System (JTIMS) is a Web-based tool suite that, in conjunction with the Defense Readiness Reporting System (DRRS) and the Joint Lessons Learned Information System (JLLIS), provides a set of integrated information management capabilities to identify, collect, analyze, store, and disseminate the data required to support implementation of the JTS and sustain a command joint training program.

This is a practical and easily accessible guide for those new to the joint environment and staff assignments. With input from serving action officers and senior leaders, here are the competencies and behaviors of highly effective and successful joint staff officers which provide a roadmap for career self development. This is the most current joint information available for managing staff activities.

This manual describes the Department of Defense (DoD) Cyber Incident Handling Program and specifies its major processes, implementation requirements, and related U.S. government interactions. This program ensures an integrated capability to continually improve the Department of Defense's ability to rapidly identify and respond to cyber incidents that adversely affect DoD information networks and information systems (ISs). It does so in a way that is consistent, repeatable, quality driven, measurable, and understood across DoD organizations.

"This manual serves as the official charter for each of the Joint Staff directorates (less J-2) and provides information on mission and functions of organizations that report to or through the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) (often referred to as "the Chairman").