WASHINGTON - The Department of Defense approved a new mission for the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), renaming the Department’s newest defense agency as the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency (JIDA).
“Over the past year we have made great strides across the department to ensure the capabilities JIEDDO brought to the table will endure through JIDA and complementary to missions where our business model ought to be applied,” said Lt. Gen. John D. Johnson, JIDA’s director. “While we have changed our name and expanded our mission, the transition should be seamless to the warfighters we support daily. We are in the business of helping warfighters adapt.”
As chartered by the Secretary of Defense, JIDA shall enable Department of Defense actions to counter improvised threats with tactical responsiveness and anticipatory acquisition in support of combatant commanders’ efforts to prepare for, and adapt to, battlefield surprise in support of counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency, and other related mission areas including counter-improvised explosive device.
Reflecting that mission statement, the new name recognizes the need to sustain efforts to enable the defeat of improvised threats globally, and to further enable U.S. forces’ preparation to counter such threats when they arise. The name preserves JIEDDO’s warfighter-recognized brand, sustains its purpose to rapidly provide capabilities to a joint force, and informs a proactive, threat-defeat approach.
Embedded at the tactical edge, JIDA assists joint force commanders by helping identify and understand their improvised-threat risks and vulnerabilities. It enables rapid and early understanding of capability gaps, timely validation of requirements, and informed investments in counter-threat technologies and non-material solutions for the combatant command within its latest time of need.
JIDA illuminates threat networks’ use of improvised weapons to enhance joint force commanders’ force protection, maneuverability, tactical responsiveness, operational planning. This support enables DoD and operational commanders to take actions against those networks, leveraging capabilities, authorities, resources, and access from wide communities of action both inside and outside the Department of Defense, including the U.S. government, industry, academia, and international partners.
In March, DoD announced JIEDDO’s transition from a DoD activity to a defense agency under the authority, direction, and control of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.
In doing so, JIDA joined a select group of defense agencies designated as combat support agencies. Its organizational alignment is intended to preserve essential joint capabilities while leveraging USD (AT&L)’s roles as the Defense Acquisition Executive and the chairman of the Warfighter Senior Integration Group. Doing so capitalizes on both the deliberate acquisition process of the DoD and JIDA’s track record of rapidly equipping the warfighter.
| Date Taken: | 07.13.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 07.13.2015 09:27 |
| Story ID: | 169850 |
| Location: | WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, US |
| Web Views: | 524 |
| Downloads: | 1 |
This work, Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency established, new mission set, by David Small, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright.
