Functional responsibilities:

• Administrative and development responsibility for PJHQ and DSF.

• Conceptual Force Development for Defence in the 10/20 year horizon for the Head Office.

• Future capability requirement setting to ensure joint and combined interoperability and an integrated collective capability.

• Dynamic Force Development changes, including the lead for Urgent Operational Requirements resulting from operational lessons.

• The development of enabling capabilities, in concert with the Services, across Defence to ensure coherence across the joint arena.

• The Senior Responsible Owner for Information, Surveillance, Targeting, Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) and for Command, Control, Communications and Computers (C4).

• Empowered joint warfare development, including: strategic and operational lessons, joint doctrine, joint and combined collective training, and experimentation.

• Joint Training and Education requirement setting for joint capabilities and wider joint and combined training.

• Setting theatre and contingency standards and evaluation of current Responsive Force Readiness in support of contingency.