lead agent

(DOD) Individual Services, combatant commands, or Joint Staff directorates may be assigned as lead agents for developing and maintaining joint doctrine or joint tactics, techniques, and procedures (JTTP) publications. The lead agent is responsible for developing, coordinating, reviewing, and maintaining an assigned doctrine or JTTP. Also called LA. See also coordinating review authority; joint doctrine; joint publication; joint tactics, techniques, and procedures; joint test publication; primary review authority.