Joint Forces Command

Not to be confused with the three NATO Joint Force Commands, at Brunssum (in the Netherlands), Naples and Lisbon or the United States Joint Forces Command, disestablished in 2011.

The United Kingdom Joint Forces Command (JFC) will command allocated joint capabilities from the three armed services. It is being set up following the Levene Report into Defence Reform; its first Commander will be Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach who is currently serving (as an Air Marshal) as Chief of Joint Operations, and who will take up his new position in December 2011.^[1]

An Implementation Team has been stood-up to initially establish the new Joint Forces Command (JFC) in April 2012, by when a small headquarters will be in place and the first tranche of organisations will have transferred to the new JFC Top Level Budget. A decision on the location of the headquarters and initial composition of the Command is expected in October. At this stage it is likely that all those organisations proposed in the Levene Report to form the initial structure will do so as of 1 April 2012. These organisations include the Permanent Joint Headquarters (which currently sits within the CJO TLB), the Directorate of Special Forces, the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, the Development Concepts and Doctrine Centre, the Surgeon-General and Joint Medical Command, elements of Defence Intelligence, (which all sit within the Central TLB) and the Defence Cyber Operations Group. Some additional organisations may transfer at this stage.

References

1. ^ DMJ article - First JFC Commander retrieved 27 Sep 2011