Multinational Experimentation

Multinational experimentation is a critical element of the United States Joint Forces Command’s (USJFCOM) Joint Concept Development and Experimentation (JCD&E) program with other participating nations, agencies and international organizations.  This JCD&E program provides opportunities to explore new concepts and capabilities for multinational and interagency operations.

These capabilities include a “whole of government” comprehensive approach to harmonize civilian and military efforts on a multinational basis.  Each event in this multinational experimentation program is designed to provide well-founded recommendations to senior leaders, and to deliver validated innovations to the practitioner, both civilian and military.
 
Multinational Experiment 6 (MNE 6)
Multinational Experiment 6 (MNE 6) is a two-year multinational and interagency effort to improve coalition capabilities to counter irregular adversaries and to prevent uncooperative leaders from becoming adversaries through application of the comprehensive approach. Although USJFCOM leads MNE 6, the experiment’s strength comes from partner nations and NATO who will lead multinational teams in specific lines of experimentation during the MNE 6 Project.
Contributing Nations:  Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States and NATO.

Multinational Experiment 5 (MNE 5)
MNE5 explored a multinational, interagency, comprehensive engagement strategy, which incorporated government, non-government, and private organizations, consolidated or harmonizing all national and international elements of power, to influence and achieve a stable international environment.  It expanded the context of pre-crisis and crisis management by engaging both military and non-military interagency organizations.
Participants:  Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States and NATO

Multinational Experiment 4 (MNE 4)
In 2006, MNE 4 explored how the effects of diplomacy, information, military and economics, influence the behavior of an adversary in order to achieve more holistic planning and more effective conduct of operations within a theater.  It also examined multinational interagency group coordination, multinational logistics interoperability, information operations, and medical support.  The experiment's results provided insights and recommendations that will allow nations to build stronger coalition teams, enhance interoperability, and improve processes for the commander in the field.
Participants:  Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States and NATO

Multinational Experiment 3 (MNE 3)
In February 2004, MNE 3 dropped the LOE designation and brought together a number of concepts in to a larger planning framework.  Participants examined issues associated with a Coalition Interagency Coordination Group; Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance; multinational information sharing; logistics; coalition-based health services support; information operations; and knowledge management.  MNE 3 highlighted that a Coalition Interagency Coordination Group was essential to an effective effects-based planning process and that stability operations are inherently multinational and interagency and require a common doctrine.
Participants:  Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and NATO

Multinational Limited Objective Experiment 2                     (MN LOE 2)
In February 2003, MN LOE2, studied the development of a coalition operational net assessment (ONA), which encompasses a product, process, and organization focused on developing a detailed understanding of the operational environment, as well as the effects of friendly and adversarial actions in the battlespace.
Participants:  Australia, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and NATO

Multinational Limited Objective Experiment 1               (MN LOE 1)
Initiated in 2001, the first multinational limited objective experiment investigated coalition military planning in an experimental combined joint task force within a distributed, multinational collaborative information environment.
Participants:  Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States