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Experiment looks to inform future joint force operations USJFCOM's Joint Concept Development and Experimentation Directorate recently completed an experiment to develop and assess processes and technical capabilities to improve the execution of joint future joint distributed operations. The experiment, running for almost two years and ending soon, brought a human element together with previous simulations conducted during the project. • Comment on this article at USJFCOMLive

USJFCOM and Army co-sponsor Unified Quest 06 wargame

U.S. Joint Forces Command and the U.S. Army are co-sponsoring Unified Quest 06, the fourth in an annual series of wargames designed determine how the joint force will conduct irregular warfighting beyond the year 2017.

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By USJFCOM Public Affairs

(SUFFOLK, Va. – April 24, 2006) –- The U.S. Joint Forces Command and the U.S. Army co-sponsored Unified Quest 06 (UQ06) starts today and runs through Friday.

UQ06 represent the fourth in an annual series of wargames designed to determine how the joint force will conduct irregular warfighting beyond the year 2017. UQ06 will identify what changes the joint force needs to make to improve its effectiveness in defeating irregular challenges and develop Army, joint and multinational concepts and capabilities on irregular warfare.

The Army’s premier wargame, UQ06 concludes a year-long study of future warfare employing a series of military service wargames along with seminars, workshops, and staff planning exercises.

Two parts of UQ06 are being conducted at the Center for Strategic Leadership at the Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Penn. The third, USJFCOM’s Global Cell, is at the Lockheed Martin Center for Innovation’s Command and Control Laboratory here.

Participants include senior active and retired government and military officials, as well as interagency and multinational partners, functional experts, and embedded news media representatives organized into opposing teams. The majority of active duty participants have recent operational experience in Afghanistan, Iraq or both.

UQ06’s focus areas include:

• Crisis prevention and posturing
• Operational maneuver
• Entry operations
• Intra-theater maneuver
• Irregular warfare
• Stability operations
• Joint theater logistics
• Information and intelligence
• Seabasing

More than 50 people from the military, government agencies, including the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and State are participating in the wargame’s Global Cell in Suffolk, along with personnel from Lockheed Martin.

The Global Cell will work through the interagency planning and coordination aspects of homeland defense and homeland decurity issues associated with multiple simultaneous global scenario developments during U.S. involvement in a major extended overseas campaign combating an insurgency and terrorist network.