Joint Personnel Recovery Agency
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Strategic Goals

  • Improve War Fighters’ Personnel Recovery capabilities through Education & Training, Operations Support, Analysis, and Technology.
  • Provide recognized and acknowledged Subject Matter Expertise (SME) to advocate Personnel Recovery Issues across the Department of Defense.
  • Build Partnerships to enhance Personnel Recovery capabilities and to meet US Government objectives

Strategic Objectives

  • Provide effective Joint Personnel Recovery commanders and staff education and Isolated Persons training (curricula, standards, research, certification, etc.) for the Combatant Commanders (CCDRs), Services, and Interagency.
  • Influence CCDRs’ and Services’ activities in order to improve their strategic and operational Personnel Recovery results.
  • Analyze and assess Services’ and CCDRs’ capabilities and provide “Capabilities Improvement Plans” to address shortfalls.
  • Propose integrated and interoperable Joint Personnel Recovery capability requirements into the Services’ Modernization programs.
  • Ensure the Department of Defense’s leadership is knowledgeable regarding the status of Personnel Recovery, including both Policy and Operational issues.
  • Expand Personnel Recovery engagement activities with the CCDRs and Services, ensuring that Personnel Recovery is an effectively integrated and integral part of their activities.
  • Coordinate Personnel Recovery doctrinal, policy, operational, and training issues on behalf of the Department of Defense’s Personnel Recovery Executive Agent.
  • Ensure Departmental leaders and their designated functionals are exposed to the importance of Personnel Recovery and how it relates to the accomplishment of their mission.
  • Coherently integrate the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency with Other Government Agencies and Multinational Partners in preparing, planning, and implementing Personnel Recovery.
  • Ensure that US Government policy and doctrine provide useful, unambiguous focus and guidance for Personnel Recovery.


 
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