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  • Future Battle Networks

    Analyze potential developments in battle networks as integrated systems of sensors, analytics, and strike.  (HAF A5SM)

  • Homeland Defense Concepts

    Managing risk to defense-critical infrastructure is a key homeland defense mission. Recognizing that competitors and adversaries seek to undermine, degrade, or attack U.S. critical infrastructure.

  • The Future of the All-Volunteer Force

    The health of the Joint Force depends on attracting and retaining the talent it needs to defend the U.S. homeland, deter strategic attacks, prevail in conflict, and build enduring advantages.

  • Defense Industrial and Innovation Base

    The ability of U.S. companies and inventors to deliver innovation is one of America's greatest comparative advantages. However, DoD faces challenges in adopting that innovation to deliver path-breaking capabilities on time and within budget.

  • Joint Force Design and Concepts

    The operational challenges DoD must confront, in the face of an ever-changing operating environment and changing character of war, require us to develop compelling and relevant concepts that link U.S. strategic objectives, policies, and capabilities.

  • Managing Risk Over Time

    Adversary strategies seek to exploit perceived vulnerabilities in the American way of war now and into the future. Countering their attempts to challenge the Joint Force and weaken the foundations of a stable and open international system requires balancing near-term activities with mid- and

  • Great Power Competition in Africa

    Explain the advantages and disadvantages Great Powers have garnered from their involvement in Africa in the past and how their actions compare to Russian and Chinese involvement today. (J2)