{{Short description|Subordinate command of U.S. Transportation Command}} thumb|Emblem of the Joint Enabling Capabilities CommandThe '''Joint Enabling Capabilities Command''' ('''JECC''') is a subordinate command of United States Transportation Command, headquartered at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. It was previously part of United States Joint Forces Command. It developed from the Standing Joint Force Headquarters concept trialed during Exercise Millennium Challenge 2002.<ref>{{cite web |last=Farrington |first=M.C. |title=Origins of the JECC |url=https://www.jecc.ustranscom.mil/Command-History/ |website=Joint Enabling Capabilities Command}} </ref>
Its mission is to provide expeditionary joint command and control (C2) enabling capabilities (joint planners, public affairs specialists, and communications) to Combatant Commanders (CCDRs) globally, for the rapid establishment of Joint Force Headquarters (JFHQ) in competition, crisis, and conflict..
Its two elements provide capabilities across seven unique functional areas. It aims to bring these packages to a joint force commander within hours of notification. The JECC subordinate commands are:
:{{Stack|float=left|70px}} The '''[https://www.jecc.ustranscom.mil/Subordinate-Commands/JPSE/ Joint Planning Support Element]''' (JPSE) – Provides rapidly deployable, tailored, ready, joint planners, operators, logisticians, knowledge managers, and intelligence specialists in order to accelerate the formation and increase the effectiveness of newly formed joint force headquarters. JPSE also provides ready, rapidly deployable, joint public affairs capabilities to combatant commanders in order to facilitate rapid establishment of joint force headquarters and bridge joint public affairs requirements. JPSE is co-located with the JECC headquarters at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia.
:{{Stack|float=left|70px}} The '''Joint Communications Support Element (Airborne)''' (JCSE) – Provides rapidly deployable, en route, early entry and scalable command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities across the full spectrum of operations in order to facilitate rapid establishment of joint force headquarters and bridge joint C4ISR requirements. JCSE is located at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.
== List of commanders == {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! rowspan=2| {{abbr|No.|Number}} ! colspan=2| Commander ! colspan=3| Term |- ! Portrait ! Name ! Took office ! Left office ! Term length |- {{Officeholder table | order = - | military_rank = Rear Admiral | image = Scott A. Stearney.jpg | officeholder = Scott Stearney | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = August 2011 | term_end = September 2013 | timeinoffice = ~{{ayd|1 August 2011|1 September 2013}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = - | military_rank = Rear Admiral | image = Bret C. Batchelder (2).jpg | officeholder = Bret C. Batchelder | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = September 2013<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.militarynews.com/norfolk-navy-flagship/news/change_of_command/joint-enabling-capabilities-command-changes-command/article_32237086-c77a-5758-aebd-6b7fdccb46a8.html|title=Joint Enabling Capabilities Command changes command|first=Whitney Williams | Joint Enabling Capabilities Command Public|last=Affairs|website=Military News}}</ref> | term_end = February 2015 | timeinoffice = ~{{ayd|1 September 2013|1 February 2015}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = - | military_rank = Brigadier General | image = Brig Gen Sam C. Barrett.jpg | officeholder = Sam C. Barrett | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = February 2015<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/467441/sam-c-barrett/|title=LIEUTENANT GENERAL SAM C. BARRETT|website=www.af.mil}}</ref> | term_end = 11 July 2017 | timeinoffice = ~{{ayd|1 February 2015|11 July 2017}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = - | military_rank = Major General | image = Maj Gen Lenny J. Richoux.jpg | officeholder = Lenny J. Richoux | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 11 July 2017<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ustranscom.mil/cmd/panewsreader.cfm?ID=5C6EF656-5056-A127-59DA505A3C47E210 | title=United States Transportation Command }}</ref> | term_end = 11 July 2019 | timeinoffice = {{age in years|11 July 2017|11 July 2019}} years }} {{Officeholder table | order = - | military_rank = Major General | image = Major General Sean M. Jenkins.jpg | officeholder = Sean M. Jenkins | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 11 July 2019<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ustranscom.mil/cmd/panewsreader.cfm?ID=00ACBAE2-5056-A127-595439D3097E3427|title = United States Transportation Command}}</ref> | term_end = 9 July 2021 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|11 July 2019|9 July 2021}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = - | military_rank = Rear Admiral (lower half) | image = Paul C. Spedero, Jr. (4).jpg | officeholder = Paul Spedero<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.navy.mil/Leadership/Biographies/BioDisplay/Article/2236495/rear-admiral-paul-spedero-jr/|title=Rear Admiral Paul Spedero Jr.|website=www.navy.mil}}</ref> | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 9 July 2021<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/Portals/55/Career/Detailing/Flag/July%202021%20Roster%20(Public).pdf?ver=8R3RhnO0G-u8RDdschL-_A%3d%3d |title=Archived copy |access-date=2021-07-10 |archive-date=2021-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210703103453/https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/Portals/55/Career/Detailing/Flag/July%202021%20Roster%20%28Public%29.pdf?ver=8R3RhnO0G-u8RDdschL-_A%3D%3D |url-status=dead }}</ref> | term_end = 23 May 2022 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|9 July 2021|23 May 2022}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = - | military_rank = Major General | image = Maj Gen Stephen F. Jost.jpg | officeholder = Stephen F. Jost | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 23 May 2022 | term_end = 11 July 2024 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|23 May 2022|11 July 2024}} }} {{Officeholder table | order = - | military_rank = Brigadier General | image = BGen Michael E. McWilliams (2).jpg | officeholder = Michael E. McWilliams | officeholder_sort = | born_year = | died_year = | term_start = 11 July 2024 | timeinoffice = {{ayd|11 July 2024}} }} |}
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==External links== * {{Official website|https://www.jecc.ustranscom.mil/JECC-Home/}} *{{Cite journal |last=Coleman |first=Bradley, and Timothy A. Schultz |date=October 2021 |title=The Cornerstone of Joint Force Transformation: The Standing Joint Force Headquarters at U.S. Southern Command, 2001-2011. |url=https://research-ebsco-com.mutex.gmu.edu/linkprocessor/plink?id=68494bdd-6365-37e7-a825-058fe52fa431 |journal=Journal of Military History |volume=85 |issue=4 |pages=1029–1060 |via=EBSCO}}
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