 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.
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.
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