Interview with Gregory F. Knapp Executive Director U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Warfighting Center and Joint Training Directorate (J7)
Gregory F. Knapp is the Executive Director, U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Warfighting Center and Joint Training Directorate (J7), Suffolk, Va. As a member of the Senior Executive Service his responsibilities include overall program direction and support to the Joint Training Enterprise. Knapp has over 27 years of government and civilian experience as an innovator in submarine combat systems and developed the first commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) combat training system for the U.S. Department of Defense. As the head engineer, he developed the first major warfare training center and is the architect for the first national distributed training capability, now known as the Joint National Training Capability (JNTC).
