Joint Intermediate Force Capabilities Office

12/23/2025

JIFCO was honored to host the Commandant and Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, senior military officials, and distinguished NATO representatives to demonstrate the future of defense with our Scorpion and Active Denial System (ADS).
Directed Energy (DE) IFCs like these are cost-effective force multipliers with "bottomless" magazines. They are uniquely suited to address today’s challenges by mitigating threats with great accuracy and without collateral damage, reducing risks for both bystanders and service members.

07/10/2025

Directed energy weapons deliver energy in a targeted manner to deter, disable, or disrupt threats. Unlike traditional fi****ms or explosives, DEWs can be precisely calibrated to produce compelling but reversible effects on target vehicles, vessels, and individuals.
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/542197/directed-energy-weapons-safer-smarter-tool-border-security

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 real-world situations beyond U.S. borders.

https://www.dvidshub.net/news/501994/bridging-gap-relevance-us-intermediate-force-capabilities

06/27/2025

In our final installment, Gunner Bill Callen speaks about how the lack of IFCs at HKIA prevented the Marines from controlling a crowd of thousands, desperate for their freedom. Callen says more people would have been able to be evacuated if they had crowd control IFCs in place.

The entire video of Gunner Callen can be viewed at downloaded here: https://www.dvidshub.net/video/968321/cwo2-ret-bill-callen

06/20/2025

In the clip shown here, Gunner Bill Callen talks about IFCs finally arriving on scene at HKIA, but also speaks about how what was needed was something on a much larger scale.

06/17/2025

Prior to Afghan special forces units arriving on the scene to assist, Gunner Bill Callen explains here in our third clip, the Marines who were boots on the ground at Hamid Karzai International Airport had exhausted all non-lethal means at their disposal prior to the arrival of any intermediate force capabilities.

06/13/2025

In this clip, Gunner Bill Callen explains that without IFCs on hand, his small group of Marines could not hold off the thousands of Afghani civilians who saw their one chance at freedom.

06/12/2025

The Marines began nonlethal training while preparing to deploy to Los Angeles to supplement National Guardsmen there.

06/11/2025

Marine Corps Chief Warrant Officer 2 (ret.) Bill Callen spoke recently with members of the Joint Intermediate Force Capabilities Office about how the use and availability of IFCs could have made a significant difference in the operations at Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) in August 2021. Over the next few weeks we will release multiple clips of Gunner Callen speaking with the JIFCO team about the situations where IFCs would have played a major role in the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

05/08/2025

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.

04/16/2025

Recently, representatives from JIFCO, the Marine Corps, and the Army participated in an industry engagement event with HDT Global to assess opportunities for Intermediate Force Capability (IFC) integration onto multiple Remote Combat Vehicles (RCVs). Attendees had the opportunity to operate RCVs and learn about new capabilities that are currently being developed. Through industry engagements like this, JIFCO is able to assist in the planning and employment of IFCs in order to arm the Joint Force with the fullest range of capabilities in support of National Security objectives.