FORT BLISS, Texas – Joint Task Force-North (JTF-North) assumed its new name and new homeland defense support mission during a unit redesignation ceremony at Biggs Army Airfield, Texas, Sept. 28.

Gen. Ed Eberhart, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command commander, and Brig. Gen. Jose D. Riojas, JTF-North commander, announced the changes during the ceremony.

JTF-North, previously known as Joint Task Force-Six, will focus on detecting and monitoring transnational threats within and along approaches to the continental United States.

Transnational threats are activities conducted by individuals or groups involved in international terrorism, narcotics trafficking, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the delivery systems for such weapons, and organized crime that threatens the national security of the United States.

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