The JOC, which has permanent personnel for joint planning and execution, guarantees that the RBAF can use cutting-edge technology to react quickly to changing circumstances, and is always ready to monitor military actions and prepare for larger-scale operations.

The then current JOC, which lacked permanent and properly trained staff, had been effective; however, as Royal Brunei Armed Forces commitments increase and operations become longer, it would be necessary to revise its core principles in order to align with the Defence White Paper Update 2007's vision and make use of existing technology to respond quickly to evolving circumstances.

[7] Reorganisation was necessary due to the RBAF's increased dimension in order to create a permanent JFHQ that would command the assigned force from the JOC and have full staff duties for joint planning and execution of operations.

The JOC would be staffed 24 hours a day, to monitor all military actions by the Royal Brunei Armed Forces, and to be ready for larger-scale missions.

Under the auspices of the US Pacific Command-funded Global Peacekeeping Operations Initiative, the Royal Brunei Armed Forces and its Indonesian counterparts participate in a relatively new training exercise known as 'Garuda Shield'.

[11] According to Brunei's Ministry of Defence, the whole range of activities during the 2018 Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercise included symposiums on law and medicine, improvised explosive device (IED) identification and awareness, company attack and area clearance in the forest, and marine evolutions.

[12] The sea phase will include a variety of exercises, such as division tactics, which aims to improve communication as ships sail together in complex manoeuvres, anti-air warfare to hone missile defence skills, and tracking exercise, which aims to increase both navies' capacity to jointly track and pursue targets through the coordinated deployment of surface ships and maritime patrol aircraft.