Functions

Training & Education

Biometrics and Forensics doctrine, training, and leadership and education must keep pace with material solutions, and must be institutionalized across the Services to ensure an enduring capability in support of current and future military operations. Biometrics and Forensics practices and processes must be fully integrated into Joint and Service doctrine, school curriculum, home station training, training at the Combat Training Centers, and joint exercises.

Core Objectives

Update Doctrine:
Integrate the discussion of biometrics, forensics, and identity activities into Joint and Allied Doctrine publications, where appropriate, and integrate biometrics, forensics, and identity into appropriate Universal Joint Tasks (UJTs).
Train the Force:
Integrate biometrics, forensics and identity into Service and Joint training and exercises, to include pre-deployment training. Integrate the discussion of biometrics, forensics, and identity activities into school curricula at every level to provide leaders an understanding of how biometrics, forensics, and identity activities enable and support operations at the tactical, operational, and strategic level.
Institutionalize Procedures:
Institutionalize Service individual and collective training tasks and integrate into appropriate Service tactics, techniques, and procedure publications. Publish Multi-Service Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (MTTP) focused at the tactical level, that capture current best practices for collecting biometrics and forensics and can be used to train Partner Nations.

Intent

DFBA is the Office of Primary Responsibility (OPR) for both the Biometrics and Forensics DOTmLPF-P Change Recommendations (DCR). Both DCRs include recommendations to institutionalize training, integrate biometrics and forensics into joint doctrine, UJTs, and Service and joint curricula. We have already made some significant progress in accomplishing these recommendation with enduring solutions, but more needs to be done. DFBA will continue to oversee and manage the DCR recommendations in accordance with the timelines approved by the Force Protection Division, the Joint Staff's J7.