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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

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.

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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.