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Omni Fusion ties Army into UR 2015

The U.S. Army partnered up with U.S. Joint Forces Command recently when it participated in Urban Resolve 2015 through its own experiment known as Omni Fusion to help bridge capability gaps for the warfighter.

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By Robert Pursell
USJFCOM Public Affairs

(SUFFOLK, Va. - Nov. 14, 2006) -- The U.S. Army partnered with U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) recently to participate in Urban Resolve 2015 (UR 2015) through its own experiment to fill capability gaps for the warfighter.

The Army utilized UR 2015 for Omni Fusion, a series of events designed to experiment with division staff, support brigades, as well as the Future Combat Systems (FCS), in a robust constructive simulation environment. UR 2015 provided that environment.

Army Lt. Col. John Janiszewski, the chief of experimentation for Unit of Action Maneuver Battle Lab, Ft. Knox, Ky., discussed the goal of Army participation in UR 2015.

"The concept is to take a look at some of the current capability gaps and look at the state of the program and determine what pieces of the program can be fielded early to the force," he said. "Those capabilities, called spin out systems, will potentially help the unit and helps with some of those capability gaps."

He said the Army wanted to use UR 2015 to address fiscal year 2006 experiment program objectives including doctrine to support the fielding of spinout systems to the Army. The venue offers the opportunity to conduct joint to Army capability gap work specific to the urban environment.

Army Maj. Jon Griese, experiment plans officer, Army Capabilities Integration Center, expanded how UR 2015 also provides the opportunity for the Army to go after Chief of Staff Initiatives that exploit FCS capabilities.

"Typically in Army experimentation, we don't have the JTF (Joint Task Force)," he said.

"When J9 [Joint Experimentation Directorate] stands up a JTF, the order of magnitude that stands here to support the Urban Resolve series for the past three months, that's a heck of an opportunity to take advantage of."

Griese explained how the idea of using UR 2015 as the venue for Omni Fusion came about.

"What we have done, in essence, is brought in our Omni Fusion experiment into Urban Resolve. Omni Fusion is an ongoing series of experiments that examine technology, staff and unit organizational concepts at the tactical and operational level of war. It's a continuing campaign of experimentation and learning," he said.

"Essentially, we realize within the Army community of practice, that really we can only focus all of those proponents on one major event a year. And that large focused event is typically linked to a joint experiment," said Griese.

He went on to explain how this not only helps the Army, but in return, how it benefits USJFCOM.

"It's an experiment within an experiment. It's what the Army's bringing to this joint environment and it's not just showing up and being a training aide," said Griese. "We bring a whole bunch of other stuff behind us that we're interested in answering and getting to and we recognize that there's a tremendous synergy in having this joint environment that they're created for Urban Resolve 2015."

Janiszewski said the next step is to revise that Army doctrinal manual with the spinout capabilities. Then they will take some of the lessons learned during UR 2015 and apply them to the next Army experiment in March 2007 which focuses on counterinsurgency.