Key Terms
Coordination and cooperation toward common objectives, even if the participants are not necessarily part of the same command or organization - the product of successful unified action.
Unity of Effort
This approach involves the integration of USG efforts through interagency planning that set forth detailed concepts of operations.
Whole-of-Government
The lead foreign affairs agency, assisting the President in foreign policy formulation and execution. This entity oversees the coordination of DOD external political-military relationships with overall US foreign policy.
Department of State (DOS)
Mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.
FEMA
A construct Commanders can develop and use with end states, objectives, and conditions that address the broader environment, all which provide common visualization and better achieve unity of effort with partners.
Political, Military, Economic, Social, Information, and Infrastructure (PMESII)
The synchronization, coordination, and/or integration of the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort.
Unified Action
An umbrella term that may be applied to any or all of the nonpublic or commercial individuals and businesses, specified nonprofit organizations, most of academia and other scholastic institutions, and selected NGOs.
The Private Sector
The President’s principal forum to advise and assist on national security and foreign policy matters. It also serves as the President’s principal arm for coordinating these policy matters among various USG departments and agencies.
National Security Counsel (NSC)
They exercise combatant command (command authority) over assigned forces and are directly responsible to SecDef for the performance of assigned missions and the preparedness of their commands to perform assigned missions.
Combatant Commander (CCDR)
Coordination that occurs between elements of DOD and engaged USG agencies for the purpose of achieving an objective, linking the DOD and the other instruments of US national power.
Interagency Coordination
An agency or other external organization that the U.S. military works with within a specific situation or operation, based on an agreement, commitment or willing arrangement, to advance their mutual interests. Mission partners broadly share mission goals and objectives.
Mission Partner
This person has overall authority and is the President’s principal advisor on military matters concerning use of federal forces in homeland defense and defense support of civil authorities.
SecWar/SecDef
Their mission is to enforce the law and defend the interests of the US according to the law, ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic, provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime, seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior, and ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.
Department of Justice (DOJ)
Their mission is to understand and predict changes in climate, weather, oceans, and coasts; to share that knowledge and information with others; and to conserve and manage coastal and marine ecosystems and resources.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Often a senior Foreign Service officer, this person provides invaluable foreign policy expertise and advice to senior, strategic level military leaders serving at various commands throughout the world.
Foreign Policy Advisor (POLAD)
The interaction that occurs among elements of the DOD; participating USG departments and agencies; state, territorial, local, and tribal agencies; foreign military forces and government agencies; international organizations; nongovernmental organizations; and the private sector.
Interorganizational Cooperation
The President’s personal representative to the government of the foreign country or to the international organization to which accredited.
Ambassador
Responsible for conducting disease surveillance activities, detecting and investigating disease outbreaks and other health conditions, and developing strategies for dealing with the public health aspects of domestic and international emergencies.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Provides leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, and related issues based on sound public policy, the best available science, and efficient management.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Information/Analysis process that enables joint partners to understand the operating environment.
Joint Intelligence Preparation of the Operating Environment (JIPOE)
Stakeholder
The DOD’s principal mission partner for Homeland Defense operations
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Ensures America’s security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions.
A mechanism to coordinate civil-military operations that can also provide operational and tactical level coordination between the JFC and other stakeholders.
Civil-Military Operations Center (CMOC)
The lead agency for overseas development and disaster response and carries out programs that complement DOD efforts in stabilization, foreign internal defense, and security force assistance.
USAID