USJFCOM is specifically chartered by the Department of Defense (DoD) Training Transformation Implementation Plan (T2I Plan) with responsibility for the integration of experimentation prototypes, technologies and new warfighting concepts into the Joint Training System. Consistent with that guidance, USJFCOM JWFC coordinates and facilitates the Joint Experimentation, Joint Test and Evaluation, and Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations (collectively referred to as "JETAs") Integration Process.
The JETA Integration Process is the formal mechanism whereby prototypes, maturing technologies and new concepts are introduced into USJFCOM sponsored and supported training events and programs. The primary purpose of the JETA Integration Process is to test and review potential solutions to warfighting gaps and seams (identified through real world operations, exercises, or other means) in joint exercises and to facilitate presentation of validated solutions to those deficiencies to the Joint Staff. Coordination and management of the JETA Integration Process is a shared responsibility. Capabilities improvement sponsors are tasked with ensuring that their JETA initiatives are tested and validated under realistic conditions with the appropriate joint context. They develop and evaluate emerging technologies in simulations, war games, limited objectives experiments or similar venues. This effort requires close coordination between the joint training community at JWFC and the JETA sponsors in order to identify the "best fit" joint exercise for the improvement initiative. Ideally, the exercise selected should be the best available platform for testing the JETA, and the integration should be managed carefully to minimize disruption to exercise events, missions and training objectives. The ultimate goal of the JETA Integration Process is to accelerate the fielding and delivery of new or improved warfighting capabilities to the Combatant Commanders.