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Noble Resolve 07-1 yields new opportunities for experimentation
The initial experiment of U.S. Joint Forces Command's Noble Resolve campaign designed to look at ways of enhancing homeland defense and support in the event of a natural or man-made disaster proved to yield promising results. Robert Pursell has the story.
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Narrated by Robert Pursell, USJFCOM Public Affairs
Featuring: David Ozolek, executive director of the Joint Futures Laboratory
Pursell: The initial experiment of U.S. Joint Forces Command's Noble Resolve campaign designed to look at ways of enhancing homeland defense and support in the event of a natural or man-made disaster proved to yield promising results.
Designed with U.S. Northern Command as part of that command's efforts to improve homeland security, this first experiment, Noble Resolve 07-1, brought in more than 125 people from across the United States and other countries to develop solutions for U.S. agencies and organizations by providing the means to deter prevent, and defeat threats and aggression aimed at the U.S., its territories, and interests.
Participants teamed up throughout the experiment to use a number of modeling and simulation or M&S tools to get a read on what would happen in two scenarios. The first involved a hurricane, similar to Hurricane Katrina, coming from western Africa hitting the Hampton Roads. The second dealt with a terrorist attack coming from a ship that sailed from the western African region.
David Ozolek, executive director of the Joint Futures Laboratory in Suffolk, Va., which held the experiment, said the sharing of information amongst organizations proved to be critical throughout both scenarios.
Ozolek: I think what we got was a reasonable assessment of our information flow and knowledge building in support of decision making capabilities as it stands today. The next step now is to map out where we need to make improvements.
Pursell: Ozolek also said one area where he saw breakthrough production was in the technical area of M&S support for planning, mission rehearsal, training and experimentation.
Ozolek: We did very effective demonstrations of some really powerful tools that have emerged within the last two years that have great potential to help us plan and respond to those types of situations.
Pursell: Noble Resolve officials will meet with commonwealth of Virginia officials including Governor Tim Kaine and mayors of the cities in Hampton Roads over the next few weeks to discuss the observations of the experiment in terms of information flow and decision making.
For more information on this and other ways U.S. Joint Forces Command is supporting the warfighter, visit us on the web at www.jfcom.mil.
For U.S. Joint Forces Command, I'm Robert Pursell.
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