a. Contractor management involves the control, support, and integration of contractor personnel and their associated equipment deploying and operating in the OA.
Contractor personnel will make up a part of almost any deployed joint force. In some operations, contractor personnel can even make up the majority of the deployed force. In any case, contractors and their equipment impose unique challenges to the JFC and, therefore, must be treated as a formal part of the deployed force rather than an afterthought when contractor management issues arise.
b. Predeployment preparation includes actions taken by the government and contract companies to ensure CAAF meet GCC-directed requirements before entering the OA. Eligibility, as defined in the Foreign Clearance Guide and other GCC-specific theater entrance guidance processes, may require country and theater clearances, waiver authorities, immunizations, required training, and/or issuance of required organizational clothing and individual equipment.
c. Deployment and reception involves managing the flow and reception of CAAF and associated equipment in accordance with established Office of the Secretary of Defense and GCC-approved operational specific policies and procedures. Obtaining and maintaining personnel accountability enables the JFC to control the entrance and exit of CAAF into and out of the OA. It further allows the JFC to automatically track, by name and location, the movement of deployed CAAF throughout the individual CAAF deployment process. Reception, staging, onward movement, and integration actions vary depending on the contractor deployment methodology.
d. In-Theater Management. In-theater contractor management includes legal authority and discipline, contractor visibility and accountability, movement control, government-furnished support, and force protection/security. Legal jurisdiction over contractor personnel varies depending on contractor personnel nationality, CAAF or contractors not authorized to accompany the force designations, operational-specific policies, and the type and severity of the disciplinary infraction. Normally, local national contract employees are subject to local laws, while US citizens and third-country national CAAF may or may not be subject to local laws depending on provisions, if any, documented in existing status-of-forces agreements or other security agreements.
Contractor personnel visibility and accountability are essential to determine and resource government support requirements such as facilities; life support; force protection;
personnel recovery; morale, welfare, and recreation; and medical services in uncertain, hostile, and/or austere OEs. Intratheater movement control includes directing contractor movement through DOD, US Government departments or agencies, or other partner- contracted support convoys along specified routes and times. Planning and oversight of government-furnished support actions is primarily a Service component responsibility.
However, DOD policy requires the appointment of a government-furnished support adjudication authority to ensure government-furnished support for contractor personnel is coordinated and approved prior to approval of the contract.
e. Redeployment. CAAF should conduct redeployment actions in the reverse manner of how they deployed. Service components, DOD agencies, USTRANSCOM, and USSOCOM are responsible for ensuring redeploying CAAF and their equipment are properly managed and controlled.
f. Force Protection and Security. Force protection and security of contractor personnel and equipment is a shared responsibility between the contractor and the US Government. In a permissive environment, the supported GCC and subordinate commander may have only limited special planning considerations, and this security responsibility would normally fall to the contractor. In hostile environments, contractor- related force protection and security requirements can be a major challenge.
g. Contractor-Provided Security. The GCC may authorize the use of contractors to provide specified security functions, consistent with applicable US, HN, international law, and any status-of-forces agreement or other security agreement that may exist for the specified OA.
For more information, see JP 4-10, Operational Contract Support.
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APPENDIX Q POINTS OF CONTACT Joint Staff/J-7/Doctrine Division
Website: http://www.jcs.mil/doctrine/
E-mail Support: [email protected] Phone number: 1-703-692-7276 (DSN 222)
Joint Staff Doctrine Sponsor/J-4
At the time of this publication:
CDR Taquina Luster
Strategy & Readiness Branch
Mailing Address: 4000 Joint Staff Pentagon, Room 2C947
Washington, DC 20318-4000
Comm: 1-703-571-9869
NIPR: [email protected] SIPR: [email protected] Joint Staff Operations Directorate/J-3
At the time of this publication:
Mailing Address: 3000 Joint Staff Pentagon, Room 2D882
Washington, DC 20318-3000
Comm: 1-703-697-4546
Joint Staff Strategy, Plans, and Policy Directorate/J-5
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Mailing Address: 5000 Joint Staff Pentagon, Room 2E800
Washington, DC 20318-5000
Comm: 1-703-697-6277
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USD [P]) At the time of this publication:
Mailing Address: 2000 Defense Pentagon Washington, DC 20301-2000 Website: https://policy.defense.gov/
Comm: 1-703-571-3343
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment (USD [A&S])
At the time of this publication:
Mailing Address: 3010 Defense Pentagon Washington, DC 20301-3010 Website: https://www.acq.osd.mil/
Comm: 1-703-571-3343
United States Transportation Command (TRANSCOM)
At the time of this publication:
Strategy, Policy, Programs, and Logistics (TCJ5/J4) Mailing Address: 508 Scott Drive Scott Air Force Base, IL 62225 Website: https://www.ustranscom.mil/
Comm: 1-618-220-5757
Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
At the time of this publication:
Logistics Operations (J3)
Mailing Address: 8725 John J. Kingman Road Fort Belvoir, VA 22060 Website: http://www.dla.mil/
Comm: 1-571-767-1600
Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) At the time of this publication:
Mailing Address: 3901 A Ave, Building 10500 Fort Lee, VA 23801
Website: http://www.dcma.mil/
Comm: 1-804-734-1492
Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) At the time of this publication:
Mailing Address: 2800 Defense Pentagon Washington, DC 20301 Website: http://www.dsca.mil/
Comm: 1-703-697-9709
Defense Health Agency (DHA)
At the time of this publication:
Mailing Address: 7700 Arlington Boulevard, Suite 5101 Falls Church, VA 22042
Website: https://www.health.mil/dha
Comm: 1-800-444-5445
APPENDIX R REFERENCES
The development of JP 4-0, Joint Logistics, is based upon the following primary references:
1. General
a. Title 10, USC.
b. Title 14, USC.
c. Title 32, USC.
d. The National Security Strategy.
e. (U) National Military Strategy.
f. National Strategy for Homeland Security.
g. National Response Framework.
h. Defense Strategy Review.
i. Unified Command Plan.
j. (U) Guidance for Employment of the Force.