USJFCOM readies for Noble Resolve 08
U.S.
Joint Forces Command and U.S. Northern Command recently
began planning for Noble Resolve 08, a series of events
designed to enhance homeland defense measures and military
support during natural or man-made disasters. Robert Pursell
has the story.
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Narrated by Robert Pursell, USJFCOM Public Affairs
Featuring: Rear Adm. Dan Davenport, director of the Joint
Concept Development and Experimentation Directorate (J9)
Pursell: U.S. Joint Forces Command and U.S. Northern Command
or NORTHCOM recently began planning for Noble Resolve 08,
a series of events designed to enhance homeland defense
measures and military support during natural or man-made
disasters.
Noble
Resolve, sponsored by USJFCOM but in support of
NORTHCOM, is an experimentation campaign supporting NORTHCOM's
efforts to develop solutions and capabilities for the U.S.
to better defend the homeland and improve response to a
crisis.
Navy
Rear Adm. Dan Davenport, director of the Joint
Concept Development and Experimentation Directorate, explained
USJFCOM's role in the event.
Davenport: Our particular role for this event is that
we design and conduct the experiment. We will provide the
distributed experimentation environment, we generate a
scenario and we distribute it out to all of the participants
so we don't have to bring everyone to Suffolk, Va. for
the experiment.
Pursell: Noble Resolve will use intricate computer-based
models and long distance virtual connections to provide
the environment for participants to make decisions and
work together as they would in case of a real crisis. By
using the models, no troops or emergency personnel will
actually have to deploy or respond to events, saving money
and time.
Davenport explained the scenarios will focus on information
sharing, maritime domain awareness (MDA), natural disasters,
mass population movement, and weapons of mass destruction.
Davenport: The major efforts that we're focused on are
maritime domain awareness. We're also looking at improving
our detection, identification, and tracking of weapons
of mass destruction. [We'll look at] mass population movement
from a national disaster or other challenge and the long-term
sustainment of a reaction for us for a chemical, biological,
radiological, nuclear or explosive event.
Pursell: Davenport said during a national crisis, the
biggest challenge is sharing information and coordinating
procedures amongst all of the civil authorities. The two
Noble Resolve experiments in 2007 built a foundation and
established many of the partnerships and information-sharing
and coordination procedures that need to be in place in
order to prepare for future crisis. Noble Resolve 08 will
benefit from this foundation.
This year, instead of having two main experimentation
events, there will be a number of workshops and limited
objective experiments throughout the year focused on specific
objectives and research questions. These will culminate
into one major event in late July.
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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