 Urban
Resolve 2015 kicks off to support warfighters
U.S.
Joint Forces Command and its partners take the next
step in conducting a series of experiments to
improve the warfighters' ability to control the urban environment.
By Robert Pursell
USJFCOM Public Affairs
(SUFFOLK, VA. - Aug. 7, 2006) -- U.S. Joint Forces Command
(USJFCOM) and its partners from 12 countries kicked off
the latest event of a series of experiments here today
to help improve the warfighters' ability to operate and
control the urban environment and isolate the adversary.
Urban
Resolve 2015 (UR 2015) consists of a series of experiments
that look at solutions to close joint urban warfighting
capability gaps. Once researchers look at the solutions,
they pass them along to the warfighter to help improve
their capacity to maintain the urban environment in which
they are fighting.
"The participants benefit through their responses
to the experiment's scenarios," said USJFCOM's Air
Force Col. Terry Kono. "They gain knowledge that may
lead to solutions to capability gaps along with other information
gleaned from the experiment - a sort of 'lessons learned'
- and make future real-world operations more efficient."
Participants include USJFCOM, Special Operations Command,
Joint Staff, the Institute for Defense Analysis, Defense
Threat Reduction Agency, Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency, the services, and other U.S. and multinational
agencies.
Kono
said UR2015's multi-national participants bring their
extensive military experience and knowledge to the table,
along with different perspectives - sometimes non-Western
perspectives. "This offers three information and discussion
sources for ultimately agreeing on solutions to those capability
gaps: first, coalition experience, second, U.S. experience,
and finally a combination of the two," said Kono
The Distributed Continuous Experimentation Environment,
along with the other facilities, provides a joint environment
for experimentation with tactical and technological solutions
in urban operations. Because of the available modeling
and simulation tools, it also provides a cost effective
experimental location.
The nations in the experiment's coalition center will
be on hand to provide feedback to plans and operations,
and develop alternative multinational and unilateral solutions.
UR2015 participants will conduct the first experiment
until Aug. 18 at the Distributed Continuous Experimentation
Environment here, in addition to 18 experimental facilities
across the country. The other experiments are set for Sept.
11-22 and Oct. 16-27.
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