Joint Field Office

Joint Field Office (JFO) A temporary federal facility established locally to provide a central point for federal, state, local, and tribal executives with responsibility for incident oversight, direction, and assistance to coordinate protection, prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery actions. For a pandemic, a national JFO may be established, or, if the pandemic outbreak is isolated to various areas, multiple JFOs may be established locally. 

Tier 6— This level involves federal assistance to state, tribal, local, and nongovermnental healthcare response at Tiers 1-5, as managed throngh a Joint Field Office and/or other federal coordinating center. 

Joint field office— The primary federal incident management field structure for support the JFO uses an incident command system structure but does not manage on-scene operations. 

Joint task force (JTF)—Based on the complexity and type of incident, and the anticipated level of Department of Defense (DOD) resource involvement, DOD may elect to designate a JTF to command federal (Title 10) military activities in support of the incident objectives. If a JTF is established, consistent with operational requirements, its command and control element will be colocated with the senior on-scene leadership at the joint field office (JFO) to ensure coordination and unity of effort. 

This volume contains the papers presented at the Joint Symposium of the Corrosion and Electronics Divisions of The Electrochemical Society on the Surface Chemistry of Metals and Semiconductors held in Columbus, Ohio, October 19-21, 1959. The symposium was sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and the Electrochemical Society. It was conceived as a medium for an effective exchange of theory and technology between the fields of metal surfaces and semiconductor surfaces. Dr. J. W. Faust, jr., co-chairman of the Symposium shared with me the responsibility of its organization and planning. 

The Department of Defense (DoD) is responsible for providing the military forces to prevent war and protect the security of the United States. The DoD includes the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, three Military Departments, nine Unified Combatant Commands, the DoD Inspector General, 15 Defense Agencies, and seven DoD Field Activities. The three Military Departments include the Army, Navy, which includes the Marine Corps, and the Air Force. The Department has an annual budget of 370 billion and has 1.5 million active duty personnel and employs 650000 civilian employees. 

The joint subcommittee of the English and Scottish Standing Medical Advisory Committees, under the chairmanship of Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, made recommendations regarding future legislation for the control of medicines, in addition to the immediate establishment of the Committee on Safety of Drugs, which came into operation in 1963 and whose function was to review the evidence on new drugs and offer advice on their safety. The Committee consisted of a panel of independent experts from various fields of pharmacy, pathology and so on. The Committee was serviced by a professional secretariat of pharmacists and medical officers, who undertook the assessment of the submissions and presented these to the committee and various subcommittees. 

The Central Pacific Area lacked adequate mortar battalion support throughout the entire war. Despite the efforts of Colonel Unmacht, theater chemical officer, the only mortar unit available prior to May 1944 was the 91st Chemical Company (Motorized) which had been stationed in Hawaii under various designations since 19 0. This unit was used in field tests, demonstrations, and joint training exercises, including amphibious assaults with several infantry divisions. 

OCCWS which many officers had expected. It became necessary to deal with the Allies, to act within the framework of international policy. Although acting within this framework, most overseas chemical officers, with the notable exception of Shadle, found themselves set apart from the Allied agencies, operating even below the joint Army-Navy-Army Air Forces level, at the level of the Army supply services. Even in Shadle s case, his presence in an Allied headquarters isolated him to some extent from the field agencies and to a greater extent from the War Department. Furthermore, there was the necessary but nevertheless restrictive requirement for OCCWS to deal formally with its overseas branches through ASF and OPD. 

The CWS administrative effort overseas most nearly like that in the European theater was in the Central Pacific Area. There Colonel Un-macht vigorously asserted CWS independence with the active concurrence and support of first the senior Army headquarters and later the combined and joint Pacific Ocean Areas headquarters. Unmacht was the only overseas chief chemical oflScer who also commanded CWS troops other than the theater or area laboratory company. Unmacht was also the only overseas chief chemical officer who was specifically designated to co-ordinate and compile a joint Army, Army Air Forces, and Navy gas warfare plan although Rowan, as Porter s representative, and Copthorne, on temporary duty in GHQ SWPA, participated in both combined and joint planning while Shadle, as a staff officer in a combined headquarters, had advisory functions in the joint and combined field. Unmacht and his subordinates certainly maintained a very close connection between research and development and the firing line even to the extent of carrying on research, development, and manufacture in the theater of operations. 

This Regulation makes provision for employers jointly occupying a work site, e.g. a construction site, trading estate or office block, to co-operate and co-ordinate their health and safety activities, particularly where there are risks common to everyone, irrespective of their work activity. Fields of co-operation and co-ordination include health and safety training, safety monitoring procedmes, emergency arrangements, welfare amenity provisions, etc. In some cases, the appointment of a health and safety co-ordinator should be considered. 

Joint Termination Regulations and other directives while the Fiscal Division checked the accounting methods followed in the termination action. Representatives of the chief s office, moreover, reviewed all terminations of less than 5,000 on periodic visits to field installations. ... 

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