ABSTRACT
A Joint Mission Thread (JMT) is an operational and technical description of the end-to-end set of activities and systems that accomplishes the execution of a Joint mission (6212.01E, 2008). JMTs clarify joint operational and technical requirements to improve interoperability and integration. They provide an operational and technical context for objective joint analysis, assessment, testing, and training. JMTs establish common standards to verify operational and technical effectiveness into exchanges, thereby enabling improved cross-portfolio analysis of Joint and coalition capabilities (Behre, 2009). A JMT is developed in a three-tier process.
