Unified Command Plan
The UCP assigned six specific responsibilities to USTRANSCOM.
Single Manager for Transportation (assigned 1992)
Provides common user and commercial air, land, and sea transportation; terminal management and air refueling plan, allocate, route, schedule, and track assets to meet Joint Force Commander deployment and distribution requirements.
Single Manager for Global Patient Movement (assigned 1993)
America’s unprecedented patient movement capability that arranges timely and safe movement for the nation’s ill and injured.
Mobility Joint Force Provider (assigned 2006)
Recommends global joint sourcing solutions to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in coordination with services and commands from all mobility forces.
Joint Enabling Capabilities Provider (assigned 2011)
The JECC provides mission-tailored, joint capability packages including communications, planning, and public affairs to accelerate the formation of joint force headquarters.
Joint Deployment & Distribution Enterprise (assigned 2020)
Merges and expands our previous roles as distribution process owner and global distribution synchronizer. Provides JDDE-wide analysis, advocate for global capabilities. Develops/implements process improvements for systems that provide key capabilities of distribution-related activities. Integrates theatre security cooperation activities supporting global distribution, in coordination with geo combatant commands.
Single Manager for Global Bulk Fuel Management (assigned 2023)
Success in this new mission will require our core competencies -- global distribution, command and control, and prioritization -- to synchronize global bulk fuel planning, posture, and execution to meet combatant command requirements and assure distribution for the entire enterprise.