Air Land Sea Application Center

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2014

Joint Staff J7/DD JED

Joint Ed & Doctrine

Mr. Jerry M. Lynes

Non-Voting Members

LeMay Center/CC

Major General

Steven L. Kwast

DIR MC CoE

Brigadier General

Willard M. Burleson III

DIR CDD, MCCDC

Brigadier General

William F. Mullen, III

COMNWDC

Rear Admiral

Scott A. Stearney

USSOCOM/FMD

Major General

Christopher K. Haas

Service Voting Members

ALSA Center Mission Rapidly and responsively develop multi-Service tactics, techniques and

procedures, studies, and other like solutions across the military spectrum

… to meet the immediate needs of the Warfighter.

Steered by JASC

Chartered by Services

JASC Joint Actions Steering

Committee

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• We are a multi-Service (Joint) organization of Warfighters

• We are governed by a Joint Actions Steering Committee

(JASC) comprised of senior leaders from the Service

doctrine centers

• We develop tactical-level solutions to multi-Service

interoperability issues consistent with Joint and Service

doctrine

• We leverage Service SMEs to develop a common

understanding of capabilities and multi-Service Tactics,

Techniques, and Procedures (MTTP)

Air Land Sea Application (ALSA) Center Who we are…

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• Building on Service synergy from Vietnam, CSAF (Gen Brown) and

CSA (GEN Abrams) saw a need for: • Army and Air Force coordination / interoperability

• Organization that cuts through bureaucratic “red tape”

• Rapidly meet the immediate needs of the Warfighter

• 1975: ALFA established by HQ TAC/HQ TRADOC

• 1986: Goldwater-Nichols National Security Act

• 1992: MCCDC and LANTFLT assigned permanent

billets to ALFA… became ALSA

• 1998: Joint Duty Assignment Validation Board

validated all ALSA Center positions as Joint

• 1998: Defense Reform Initiative Directive (DRID), decision to leave

ALSA independent of Joint Forces Command

• 2005: DOTMLPF Change Recommendation (DCR) from JS J-7;

Services and SOCOM non-concur with disestablishment of ALSA

History of ALSA

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Immediate needs of the Warfighter

Land / Sea LTC Weisner (USA)

Lt Col Seeker (USAF) LTC Thomas (USA)

Vacant till Spring 2015 (USAF) MAJ Herrick (USA)

Director COL John Smith (USA)

Support Staff Exec Asst – Mrs. Parris (USA)

Budget – Mrs. Robinson (USA) Automation Asst – Mrs. Joyce (USN)

Publishing Staff Editor - Ms. Radcliffe (USAF)

Illustrator – Ms. Caswell (USN) NCOIC TSgt Horton (USAF)

• Air Operations in Maritime Surface

Warfare (AOMSW)

• Biometrics

• Brevity

• Defense Support of Civil Auth (DSCA)

• Combat Camera Operations (COMCAM)

• Electronic Warfare Reprogramming (EW)

• Joint Air Traffic Control (JATC)

• Tactical Chat (TAC Chat)

• Tactical Radios (TAC Radios)

• UHF SATCOM

* new publication in development

C2 Lt Col Eppley (USAF) MAJ Edwards (USA)

Vacant till Spring 2015 (USAF) LCDR Head (USN)

• Advising Foreign Forces

• Airfield Opening (AO)

• CF-SOF Integration and Interoperability

• Cordon and Search (C&S)

• Engagement Teams (ET)

• Explosive Ord Disposal (EOD) moving to JP

• Intl Monetary Shaping Ops (IMSO)

• Military Deception (MILDEC) (Secret)

• Military Diving Operations (MDO)

• Operation Assessment (New)*

• Peace Operations

• Tactical Convoy Operations (TCO)

• Nonlethal Weapons (NLW)

• Unexploded Explosive Ordnance Ops (UXO)

• Airborne Target Coordination and Attack

Radar System (ATCARS)

• Airspace Control (AC)

• Aviation Urban Operations (AUO)

• Dynamic Targeting (DT)

• Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS)

• ISR Optimization (New)*

• Joint Application of Firepower (JFIRE)

• Joint Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses in

a Joint Environment (JSEAD) (Secret)

• Kill Box

• Strike Coord and Reconnaissance (SCAR)

• Survival, Evasion, and Recovery

• Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)

• Theater Air Ground System (TAGS)

JASC

Air Ops Lt Col Gross (USAF) Maj Harvey (USMC)

MAJ Keil (USA) Maj Lupini (USAF) MAJ Hazard (USA)

ALSA PUBLICATIONS

Deputy LTC Dana Smith (USA)

Joint Doctrine • Authoritative Joint doctrine

• Must have consensus

• Proposed by JDPC

• Approved by CJCS/DJS

• Signed by the CJCS

• Revised every 5 years

• Operational Level Doctrine

Multi-Service Doctrine • Authoritative Service doctrine

• Service agreement not required

• Proposed / written by Warfighters

• Approved by JASC

• Signed by Service doctrine chiefs

• Revised every 2-3 years

• Tactical Level Solutions

ALSA’s Contribution to Service

Publications

11% of USA Army Techniques

Publications (ATP) (33 of 295 ATP)

68% of USAF 3-2 Series , Air Force

Tactics Techniques and Procedures

(36 of 53 AFTTPs)

18% of USN 2-0 thru 6-0 Series NTTPs

(33 of 180 NTTPs)

18% of USMC Marine Corps Reference

Publications (27 of 154 MCRP)

MCRP 3-31.4B

U.S. Marine Corps

Cordon and Search

Cordon

and

Search

ATP 3-06.20

Cordon and Search

AFTTP 3-2.62

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TCO

COMCAM

UAS, AOMSW

Advising

UXO

MILDEC

COMCAM

JFIRE, ATCARS, TCO

Peace Operations, UXO

TCO

AUO

CF-SOF

Brevity

Kill Box, SCAR

ALSA Pubs in Joint Doctrine

Joint Doctrine

JP 1-0 JP 2-0 JP 3-0 JP 4-0 JP 5-0 JP 6-0

IADS, TAGS, JSEAD UXO

JP 3-01

Air Threats

NLW

TCO

Survival

Kill Box, DT

UXO, EOD

TAGS

JP 3-18

Force Entry

JP 3-34

Engineer Ops

JP 3-50

Pers Rcvry

JP 3-60

Targeting

JP 3-35

Deployment

JP 3-27

HLD

JP 4-07

Common-User

Logistics JFIRE, Kill Box,

Airspace Control

TAGS

Brevity, JFIRE, TAGS

UAS, Kill Box,

Airspace Control

UXO

JATC

NLW,

Peace Operations

JP 3-07.3

Peace Ops

JP 3-09.3

CAS

JP 3-13

Info Ops

JP 3-15

Barriers/Mines

JP 3-17

Air Mobility

JP 3-10

Security

JP 3-05.1

Spec Ops TF

JP 3-09

Fire Support

ALSA MTTP Referenced in over 30 pubs

and linked to ~ 40% of

Joint Publications

JP 3-03

Interdiction

EW Reprogramming

JP 3-13.1

EW

DSCA

JP 3-28

Civil Support

JP 3-04

Ship Helo Ops

JP 3-05

Spec Ops

JP 3-06

Urban Ops

JP 3-07.2

Antiterrorism

JP 3-13.4

MILDEC

JP 3-15.1

Counter IED

JP 3-22

FID

JP 3-61

PA

JP 4-10

Contract

Support

JP 3-30

C2 Air Ops

UAS, AC

JP 3-52

Airspace Cntl

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ALSA MTTP Development Process

PHASE IV

World Wide

Review

PHASE I

Research

and

Assessment

PHASE II

Project

Approval

PHASE V

Command

Approval

PHASE VI

Publishing

PHASE III

Project

Development

JWG #1 JWG #2

NLT 75 Days 45 Days 135 Days 140 Days 45 Days 60 Days

World

Wide

Review

[60 Days] RFF PAP CAP

Director

Decision

JASC

Decision

Signature

Draft

12 Months

Adjudicate*

and Edit

[80 Days]

JDD

Draft

* Critical comments

adjudicated via DCO

with SMEs and AJDDs

prior to Sig Draft * Final

Coordination

Draft

JWG #3

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Air Land Sea Bulletin (ALSB)

Sep 2014 Edition

Title: Joint Training in a

Constrained Environment

Articles:

1. The Weighted Sword

2. UK Joint Training in a Resource-

Constrained Environment

3. Improving Joint Fires Performance

with Distributed Live/Virtual

Environments

4. Advancing Distributed and Blended

Learning

5. Warfighter Readiness through Flag-

level exercises

6. Understanding C2 in the Joint

Environment

7. Communicating within the

Information Environment

Recent ALSBs

Sep 2013 Open Warfighter Forum

Jan 2014 Pacific Rebalance, Tactical

Implications

Jun 2014 Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Future ALSBs

Jan 2015 Inter-organizational and

Defense Supt to Civil Auth

Jun 2015 Warfighter Forum

Get your Service published!

articles due 2 months prior for more go to www.alsa.mil

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ALSA Products

Multi-Service Tactics,

Techniques, and Procedures

(MTTP)

Air Land Sea Bulletin (ALSB)

ALSA Study

Where to find? Unclassified – http://www.alsa.mil

SIPR – http://www.acc.af.smil.mil/alsa

Joint & Service Digital Libraries Army: http://www.apd.army.mil

Navy: https://ndls.nwdc.navy.mil/default.aspx

Air Force: http://www.au.af.mil/au/lemay/main.htm

Marine Corps: https://www.doctrine.usmc.mil/

Joint: https://jdeis.js.mil/jdeis/index.jsp?pindex=84

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AIR LAND SEA APPLICATION (ALSA) CENTER

“…meeting the immediate needs of the Warfighter.”