Courtesy Story | Joint Intermediate Force Capabilities Office | 07.08.2025
As the United States faces increasingly complex security challenges at its borders and ports of entry, the need for effective, scalable, and safe enforcement tools has never been greater. The Joint Intermediate Force Capabilities Office (JIFCO) resources the development and champions the deployment of non-lethal technologies that provide U.S. personnel with more options than simply “do......
Courtesy Story | Joint Intermediate Force Capabilities Office | 07.01.2025
In an increasingly complex world, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has recognized the need for scalable responses to international conflict that fall between verbal warnings and 30,000-lb bombs. These tools, known as Intermediate Force Capabilities (IFCs), which include incapacitating weapons, information operations, electromagnetic warfare, and cyber tools, are proving indispensable in......
Video by Adam Vernon | Joint Intermediate Force Capabilities Office | 06.27.2025
USMC CWO2 (ret) Bill Callen spoke recently with members of the Joint Intermediate Force Capabilities Office about how IFCs could have made a significant difference in the operations at Hamid Karzai International Airport in August 2021....
Video by Adam Vernon | Joint Intermediate Force Capabilities Office | 04.24.2025
JIFCO and SimVentions recently hosted a group of Air Force personnel to evaluate how Intermediate Force Capabilities can assist in expeditionary air base defense....
Courtesy Story | Joint Intermediate Force Capabilities Office | 02.18.2025
The realities of the international security environment are expanding, opening up arenas of competition among nations, militaries, and non-state actors beyond the historical war vs peace dichotomy. Great power competition has surged back to the forefront, reshaping security dynamics not just in the Indo-Pacific but across the globe. Adversaries such as China and Russia are asserting their......
Courtesy Story | Joint Intermediate Force Capabilities Office | 10.01.2024
The U.S. Sea Services are a vital force in maintaining order and ensuring freedom of navigation in the contested waters of the West Philippine Sea, the place of unfolding strategic power struggles. The top leaders of the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard stated in the U.S. Tri-Service Maritime Strategy that we “must maintain clear-eyed resolve to compete with, deter, and, if......
Courtesy Video | Joint Intermediate Force Capabilities Office | 07.10.2023
IFC Ground Based Irregular Warfare
Courtesy Video | Joint Intermediate Force Capabilities Office | 07.10.2023
The use of Non-Lethal Weapon Intermediate Force Capabilities (NLW/IFC) to counter Gray Zone Coercion
