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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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