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 2006 -- The Year in Review
During 2006, U.S. Joint Forces Command’s made great strides, working with governmental and nongovernmental agencies and other nations to develop better ways of supporting each other, forging new partnerships with industry and academia, and supporting the warfighter around the world. The command conducted experiments that investigated how the U.S. military and its allies and partners will train and operate together in the future, and its efforts in analyzing lessons learned in the Global War on Terrorism yielded a groundbreaking report on Saddam Hussein’s regime.
(NORFOLK, Va. – Dec. 29, 2006) --
Editor's note: As you read this review of news U.S. Joint Forces Command brought you in 2006, various hyperlinks will take you to the article as it was presented when the event occured. Other hyperlinks will take you to specific information about the subject.
Compiled by MCC(SW/AW) Chris Hoffpauir
USJFCOM Public Affairs
January:
A group of reporters toured the command’s Joint Operations Center in Norfolk, Va., in early January to see some of the tools the command uses as DoD’s primary joint force provider.
USJFCOM provides conventional forces to support combatant commanders worldwide. Those forces support disaster relief efforts, homeland defense, and the Global War on Terrorism.
“The supported commander identifies the needs and we make the force recommendations,” Army Brig. Gen. Michael Ferriter, USJFCOM’s director for operations, plans, logistics and engineering, said during the tour.
The command plans to begin construction on a new $15 million Joint Deployment Center with the U.S. Navy’s Fleet Forces Command in early 2007 to help facilitate force flow visibility and promote a more rapid response to requests for forces.
The command also deploys smaller elements for specific missions. The Joint Public Affairs Support Element (JPASE) supported joint task force commanders dealing with the aftermaths of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan.
Ensuring accuracy and facilitating media access in the early stages of operations is a formidable challenge for DoD, JPASE Director Army Col. Steve Campbell said.
JPASE provides a cadre of experienced public affairs professionals who provide news organizations with a perspective of operations in progress. It maintains a standing team that trains and operates together, much like USJFCOM’s Standing Joint Force Headquarters (Core Element).
“Having a seasoned team on call provides a unit that can immediately build and manage a task force’s public affairs processes while the combatant command evaluates the long-term outlook for the operation,” Campbell said.
Also in January, USJFCOM and the Hewlett-Packard (HP) Company reached a milestone in their ongoing Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). The command conducted its first research effort with HP to test the ability of selected software applications to efficiently administer hardware resources in a simulation environment.
The agreement focuses on high performance computing to support the joint modeling and simulation (M&S) environments used to accomplish the command’s joint training and joint experimentation missions.
February:
USJFCOM’s Joint Warfighting Center (JWFC) became the office of primary responsibility for the Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability (JKDDC) Joint Management Office (JMO) in February.
Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Readiness Dr. Paul Mayberry directed the move in August 2005 to better integrate JKDDC with the Joint National Training Capability (JNTC), also managed by USJFCOM.
“There are a lot of operational efficiencies we can realize by putting JKDDC with JNTC at the same command,” said JKDDC JMO Program Manager Joseph Camacho.
JKDDC and JNTC are two of the three capabilities that form the foundation of DoD’s Training Transformation. JKDDC addresses individual training and education, developing and distributing joint knowledge through a dynamic global network. JNTC addresses collective training, preparing forces by providing command staffs and units with an integrated live, virtual and constructive training environment in an appropriate joint context.
The third is the Joint Assessment and Enabling Capability, which will assist leaders in assessing the value of transformational initiatives on individuals, organizations, and processes and provides essential support to enable and enhance JKDDC and JNTC.
USJFCOM, NATO and numerous international partners began Multinational Experiment 4 (MNE4) in locations around the world in February. Ending in early March, MNE4 was the fourth event in USJFCOM’s multinational experimentation path. USJFCOM began the experiment series in 2001 to test new concepts for conducting coalition operations. USJFCOM was the sponsor and overall lead, while coalition partners lead the specific concepts and processes the experiment explored.
The experiment’s environment focused on developing future processes, organizations and technologies at the operational level of command. MNE4’s participants - 800 personnel from Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, NATO and the United States - examined aspects of the effects-based approach to multinational operations.
Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the U.S. participated from their own experimentation facilities using a distributed continuous experimentation environment with its hub located in Suffolk, Va. NATO operated from a facility in Istanbul, Turkey, while Australia, Finland and Sweden participated from USJFCOM.
March:
U.S. Joint Forces Command Commander Gen. Lance Smith, also NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (ACT), visited the Ataturk Wargaming, Simulation and Culture Center in Istanbul during the last week of MNE4 to discuss the centre’s importance in simulation and planning for current and future NATO operations.
The center is a state-of-art facility, and Smith recognized not only the center’s importance in linking the Alliance’s members, but the important role Turkey plays within NATO.
“This first-class facility allows that global connection to occur,” Smith said. “It is also another indication of Turkey’s seriousness about engaging and experimenting with other nations within NATO and other governmental organizations with the goal of trying to win this very difficult battle against terrorism.
“This is really leading-edge stuff for what I think is the future of exercising and experimentation, in that it allows us to save money by not having to deploy people and forces all in one place,” he said. “It allows us to do distributed operations from any place in the world and it is going to open the door to allow us to train better and more effectively.”
MNE4 wasn’t USJFCOM’s only experiment in March.
The command also completed the third limited objective experiment (LOE) in the Urban Resolve 2015 (UR 2015) series, which examines solutions for warfighters conducting stability operations in the complex and evolving urban battlespace.
Finally in March, USJFCOM released an unclassified historical report of military operations conducted in Iraq that reflected the Iraqi civilian and military leadership’s perspective of events.
“Opinions are not facts,” said Army Brig. Gen. Anthony Cucolo, then-director of USJFCOM’s Joint Center for Operational Analysis (JCOA). “One data point is not a trend, and a group of data points from a single perspective isn’t going to convince anyone.”
“For the first time since World War II, we had an opportunity to evaluate military events from both our own perspective and the perspective of the opposing political and military leadership,” Cucolo said.
“This means reading their documents, reading their orders, interviewing their commanders and civilian leaders and asking what happened.”
This two-year project started in 2003 and became known as the Iraqi Perspective Project (IPP).
The IPP team conducted more than 100 interviews; 23 with senior members of the former regime.
Interviews included Saddam’s personal secretary, Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as Chemical Ali.
The team also interviewed the secretary of the Republican Guard, both Republican Guard corps commanders, the commander of the Special Republican Guard, the director of military intelligence, division commanders and others.
April:
USJFCOM hosted more than 500 attendees at Industry Symposium 2006 at the Hampton Roads Convention Center in Hampton, Va., in April.
Gen. Smith and Rep. J. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) addressed the group of industry leaders about the command’s relationship with industry to open the two-day event.
The symposium was the sixth cosponsored by USJFCOM and the Hampton Roads Chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association.
Smith outlined how partnering with industry helps the command accomplish its mission of transforming the military and delivering capabilities to the warfighter. He emphasized technological solutions should be designed from the start for use by all the services, rather than having each service develop its own solutions and then try to make them work together after the fact.
Forbes discussed the results of February’s Modeling and Simulation Leadership Summit, held in Suffolk, Va. The summit brought together more than 350 delegates from the government, industry and academia to discuss and identify the strategic needs for the future advancements in the M&S industry.
“First of all, we recognized that we have to do a much better job of educating the public about what modeling and simulation does,” Forbes said. “We want to show the country the money it’s producing, the money it’s saving, the lessons we’re learning from modeling and simulation that are saving lives and equipment and the overall impact, which we’ve never really done.”
Another item resulting from the summit was for the caucus to find ways to provide incentives for the M&S industry and local governments to more actively use M&S to train emergency management personnel.
“We need to begin using M&S for urban planning,” Forbes said. “If we can model areas like Louisiana, and make sure we’re predicting what will happen with hurricanes and storms, it would be absolutely phenomenal. And we have that capability to do that.”
Dr. Linton Wells II, the principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for networks and information integration, discussed the importance of net-centric and integrated operations in the keynote address on the final day of the symposium.
Wells gave a brief explanation of what net-centric operations concept is and why it’s important.
“In this environment that’s so dynamic today, we’ve got to get agility into the equation,” Wells said. “We need to be able to put together information flow and get access to knowledge to the people who need it.”
He emphasized the importance of allowing information to flow not just vertically from commanders to operators, but also horizontally between operators in the field.
“The essence of net-centric operations is the ability of the network to allow you to share information and share situational awareness, which, together with understanding a commander’s intent, allows individuals and units to self-synchronize their actions without having to go through the whole hierarchy of the force structure.
“This has been demonstrated through exercises and real-world experiences and is saving lives and improving performance every day.”
Government and military personnel gathered in Suffolk in April to mark the opening of USJFCOM’s Joint Technology Exploration Center (JTEC). The new 104,000 square foot facility helps reduce spending for large-scale training exercises by conveying the latest in M&S training to the members in the field.
The facility houses the Joint Advanced Training Technology Laboratory (JATTL), an environment where scientists and engineers can work together to develop, evolve and certify M&S products.
USJFCOM Deputy Commander Army Lt. Gen. John R. Wood spoke during the ceremony. “It is about being born joint, so the joint warfighter of the future does not have to resolve the differences between systems and the difficult ties between commands on the field of battle in times of stress. It’s best to do that here at a place like JTEC where we build joint and produce solutions immediately, early and available to joint warfighters,” said Wood.
USJFCOM and the U.S. Army co-sponsored Unified Quest 06 (UQ06) in April. UQ06 was the fourth in an annual series of wargames designed to determine how the joint force will conduct irregular warfighting beyond the year 2017.
The wargame identified what changes the joint force needs to make to improve its effectiveness in defeating irregular challenges and develop concepts and capabilities on irregular warfare. UQ06 concluded a year-long study of future warfare employing a series of military service wargames, seminars, workshops, and staff planning exercises.
Participants included 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 had recent operational experience in Afghanistan, Iraq or both.
May:
In May, a group of local business and government leaders got a front row look at how USJFCOM uses M&S to accomplish the mission of preparing joint warfighters for duty around the globe.
The visit by CIVIC Leadership Hampton Roads focused on the development and deployment of M&S and its impact on USJFCOM’s missions and initiatives. The group brings together leaders to connect with each other and address challenges facing the region. USJFCOM’s work in M&S has encouraged substantial growth in the area’s industrial and education sectors.
The program included discussions and simulations conducted by USJFCOM, the Virginia Modeling and Simulation Center and the Lockheed-Martin Center for Innovation. The two organizations are among several in the Hampton Roads area the command partners with.
June:
USJFCOM gave visiting general and flag officers a tour in June to showcase the command’s efforts in training transformation. The demonstrations provided a unique opportunity for service, combatant command and DoD officials to see the latest technologies and JNTC initiatives the command is pursuing.
Among the group was Daniel Gardner, director of the Readiness and Training, Policy and Program Directorate in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness.
“This really opens my eyes to the potential of new capabilities being fielded,” Gardner said. “If we can train realistically, that gives our folks an edge when they get into an operational environment. It’s all about resources and how you make the most efficient use of those resources. That’s what USJFCOM is doing here, determining the best way to move forward in the training transformation.”
USJFCOM assisted in an effort to develop new capabilities designed to protect troops traveling in convoys and increase their ability to communicate with other forces. Working with the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), USJFCOM conducted the Extended Awareness 06-1 (EA06-1) limited objective experiment, designed to enhance the effectiveness of quick reaction forces supporting convoys under attack.
TRADOC and USJFCOM funded a capability demonstration in June at Fort A.P. Hill, Va., during a training event called Manassas Run. The Army Transportation School at Fort Eustis, Va., provided vehicles and combat-experienced personnel for the experiment, while USJFCOM provided ISR subject matter experts.
USJFCOM used the opportunity to conduct EA06-1 as a limited objective experiment inside Manassas Run, testing the use of acoustic sensors in locating attackers more quickly and inform quick reaction forces than is currently possible.
Also in June, USJFCOM signed a CRADA with Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc. as a part of the command's ongoing drive to partner closer with industry,
The three-year cooperative agreement with two one-year options focuses on issues related to assuring the security of information systems.
It establishes a working environment for conducting tests, demonstrations, experiments and exploratory interchange efforts that will address information assurance certification and accreditation.
USJFCOM’s JNTC initiative took another step forward at exercise Northern Edge 06 (NE06) in June. U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) used distributed mission operations (DMO) to simulate a massive campaign in the Alaskan range.
It was the first time USPACOM used the Pacific Air Operations Center here to conduct a tactical-level DMO event.
Also in June, USJFCOM cosponsored Eloquent Nugget 06 (EN06), an “in the spirit of Partnership for Peace (PfP)” seminar held in Suffolk, Va., and New York.
EN06 was the 12th in the annual series of seminars designed to demonstrate and explain relevant aspects of civilian democratic control of the military, providing an overview of democratic principles and exposing participants to the capabilities required to meet the global security challenges of the 21st century.
PfP is a NATO-led initiative established in 1994. Its 20 members work with the Alliance to coalesce Europe in the wake of Cold War tensions.
“The purpose of the series is to familiarize our partner nations with civilian democratic control of the military. That’s the overarching theme of the series. Each year we develop sub-themes that address current or future issues having potential regional and global threats,” said Air Force Col. Debra J. Carroll, USJFCOM’s JWFC exercise project officer for EN06.
She also serves as a special assistant to the U.S. national military representative to NATO’s Allied Command Transformation.
“Participating in the program is one venue many countries take toward gaining an invitation to join the Alliance,” Carroll said.
“For others, it is a way to engage with the United States and other nations in an allied-type environment.
There are nations that have no aspirations to joining NATO, but they still want to maintain close relations with the Alliance.”
July:
Joint Systems Integration Command’s (JSIC) Joint Systems Baseline Assessment 2006 (JSBA-06) completed a technical assessment in July designed to test command and control systems used by warfighters around the world.
JSIC is a USJFCOM subordinate command which leads near-term transformation of joint force command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities through assessing new technology.
JSBA-06 is the latest in a series of assessments designed to identify and address warfighter interoperability issues relating to capabilities already in the field or projected to be in the field in the next year. The assessment is an effort between Joint Staff, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and USJFCOM to resolve key combatant command readiness issues related to service collection management and targeting capabilities in a coalition environment.
August:
USJFCOM worked closely with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) in August to deliver new command and control capabilities more rapidly. USJFCOM’s Joint Capability Development (J-8) and Standing Joint Force Headquarters (SJFHQ) Directorates worked with DISA on helping to deliver DoD’s new principal command and control program, called the Net-Enabled Command Capability (NECC).
NECC will be based on a Web-enabled, service oriented architecture providing capabilities that support joint force and unit level commanders in the accomplishment of their warfighting mission.
USJFCOM also continued UR 2015 in August. Thirteen nations participated in UR2015. The experiment linked 18 locations through networked federations in the continental United States. The major advantage of using M&S for warfare experimentation is that it allows analysts and warfighters to create and alter the virtual battlespace based on real-time, constantly shifting data.
An advantage of experimentation such as UR2015 is it allows for bold risk-taking that otherwise would not be possible.
Such boldness in modeling and simulation can produce dramatic solutions to joint operations.
As ideas are developed and tested, different approaches quickly could be injected into the modeling and simulation until acceptable solutions are found.
For Urban Resolve, as for any multinational experimentation, participating foreign liaison officers’ varying cultural backgrounds and operational experiences all became part of the experiment’s data mix. Multinational collaboration offered three distinct perspectives from which participating nations can draw solutions to narrow capability gaps: the U.S. perspective, individual participating nation perspectives and the combined group perspective.
September:
JSIC developed a new capability to rapidly establish computer networks when joint warfighters move in to areas where there is no established communications network. Wireless for the Warfighter (W4W) provides an advanced wireless capability to provide faster setup, communication and dissemination of critical data.
In September, James Bohling, W4W project lead, explained how the capability allows more mobility with reduced components.
“The W4W solution will ultimately provide 5-10 miles of secure unclassified wireless and secure classified local wireless access so that the warfighter doesn’t have to be tethered to a network,” he said. “The requirements came from a request from U.S. Northern Command’s Joint Task Force Civil Support (JTF-CS) to be able to extend critical communications wirelessly from a forward command post to elements of a joint task force.”
JSIC developed W4W out of the need outlined by JTF-CS for a capability that would improve and support rapid establishment of a joint operations center as well as feeding classified and unclassified data back and forth between personnel.
Also in September, a small group of USJFCOM personnel deployed to different countries in U.S. Central Command’s (CENTCOM) areas of responsibility to better respond to operational requirements and improve the understanding of transformation.
The command sent teams to Qatar, Baghdad and Tampa, Fla. on a 120-day rotation to provide CENTCOM with USJFCOM support.
Army Lt. Col. Paul Coyle, deputy director of the support element to Iraq, said, “Gen. Smith understands that our mission is to support the warfighter, therefore he feels that it’s important enough to send an element forward to CENTCOM and try and figure out how we can better support the warfighter in a more rapid manner, how we can bring more to bear for the warfighter faster.”
In addition to improving the understanding of USJFCOM, the teams assist with operational requirements using a joint point of view and serve as the focal point for all USJFCOM support.
October:
Gen. Smith spoke before the Commission on National Guard and Reserve in October about global force management and USJFCOM’s primary goal for individual augmentees - to push notification time out in order to ensure more predictability.
“Joint Forces Command just took over the mission of joint individual augmentee manning and provision on the Oct.1 this year and our primary goal is going to be to do the same things with the individual augmentees that we did with units, and that’s to push the notifications time out further and further until we think that we can have the kind of training, the kind of predictability, and those things that are necessary for both the active and reserve component,” he said.
Smith also said USJFCOM looks to maintain a mobilization model that will offer reservists better predictability and flexibility to manage their personal and professional lives.
“I do think that it is significantly more important that that predictability is out there for the reserve component because of their family differences, their employee requirements, and alike,” he said.
“As the primary force provider, I couldn’t even begin to have that role without access, visibility and use of the reserve component,” he said. “It has become an integral part of how we supply forces to the combatant commanders in the field.
The command’s goal is to develop a formalized individual augmentee sourcing process and synchronize it with the process the command uses to rotate units to support combatant commanders. The result will increase decision time and offer both units and individuals more predictability.
The command’s Joint Deployment Process Owner demonstrated the Joint Force Projection (JFP) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD), a Web-based system running on a classified network designed to help commanders track when and where their requested capabilities and forces will arrive.
The demonstration provides a single integrated force projection picture that links operators at service, joint and agency levels using real-time Web-based, net-centric information systems to help databases talk with one another.
USJFCOM and USPACOM announced in October that they are working with the Australian Defense Force (ADF) to develop that nation’s Joint Combined Training Capability (JCTC).
JCTC will link to the JNTC through USPACOM in Hawaii, making Australia the first U.S. ally to directly connect to the capability. USJFCOM and the Australian Defence Simulation Office in Canberra are supporting the collaborative effort.
The new capability will allow U.S. and Australian forces to link simulation networks so they can train together in a live, virtual and constructive environment which blends live tactical forces with manned simulators and sophisticated computer models. The live portions of the exercise will take place in field training areas in Australia.
The plan to develop JCTC began in 2004, with the Australian government funding the program through its initial operating capability in Exercise Talisman Saber 2007, a U.S.-Australian joint exercise that starts in May 2007. Australia’s initial budget for the project was $21 million in U.S. currency or about $29 million in Australian dollars.
The Australian government will decide whether or not to continue developing the JCTC after proving the concept in the exercise.
Also during October, USJFCOM brought UR 2015 to a close as the participants briefed the experiment’s initial results.
David Ozolek, executive director of the Joint Futures Laboratory in Suffolk, Va., said the command confirmed its hypothesis in the urban operations concept - the need for transforming how forces operate in the urban environment.
“Our conceptual work in this experiment really focused on isolating threats within the urban environment from the population, protecting the population and assisting with the restoration of the services,” Ozolek said.
He said another insight was the power of some of the modeling and simulation tools.
“They performed, not only beyond our expectations in being able to support the experiment, but also revealed during the course of the experiment that they have some real potential as decision support tools for the forces that will be operating in the future environment,” said Ozolek.
“They have great potential for increasing our abilities in battlespace awareness, and perhaps the most important thing is they show great potential in being able to compress the decision cycle so that we can make better decisions faster in the very complex urban environment.”
November:
Three hundred participants from 35 nations met in Athens, Greece, in November for the Concept Development and Experimentation (CD&E) conference, sponsored by USJFCOM, ACT, and the Hellenic National Defence General Staff. Ozolek offered an explanation on the importance of the conference.
“This gave us the opportunity to address with 35 other national partners some of the high priority issues that are before us across DoD and enable us to address some of the specific requests for assistance through experimentation that have been identified by our combatant commands,” Ozolek said.
German Army Brig. Gen. Ernst Otto Berk, ACT’s deputy assistant chief of staff for joint experimentation exercises and assessment, added that the conference is important to NATO in that it’s an opportunity to gain the support of nations outside of NATO.
“In NATO it is important to get the support of the nations,” he said. “This conference offers the opportunity to have an exchange of new a dialect from NATO nations and partner nations in order to combine our efforts.”
Senior military, industry and government agency representatives attending the conference also discussed planning for Multinational Experiment 5 (MNE5), slated to occur between 2008 and 2010. A key focus of the experiment will be interagency cooperation, a topic covered extensively during the conference.
MNE5 will bring together experimenters from military, government and non-governmental organizations, building on the results of MNE4.
USJFCOM also formed more partnerships with industry and academia in November. The command signed a CRADA with Raytheon to address some of the challenges joint warfighters face in the urban environment.
The agreement is a two-year cooperative agreement, with three one-year options, focuses on developing a nationally accessible operations-oriented test bed for exploration and rapid deployment of net-centric capabilities and components for use in urban environments.
The agreement with Raytheon was the fifth USJFCOM entered since the Office of the Secretary of Defense delegated technology transfer authority to the command in 2005.
USJFCOM will join five other local government and education partners on a high-speed, high-bandwidth network designed specifically for scientific and military research.
The Eastern Virginia LightWave Internetworking Technology Enterprise network (E-LITE) will be connected to the National LambdaRail (NLR) network, a nationwide network infrastructure owned and maintained by the U.S. research community.
The NLR is an 11,000-mile nationwide infrastructure that allows the simultaneous deployment of multiple networks for experimental and production purposes. The hope is that E-LITE’s linkage to the NLR will allow USJFCOM and its partners to more openly share research data and finds.
Old Dominion University, which manages the project, awarded a five-year contract to Verizon in December 2005 to install 150 miles of fiber-optic cabling and networking hardware at each of the network’s node locations.
In addition the university, nodes are at USJFCOM’s Suffolk complex, the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, the Virginia Modeling and Simulation Center (VMASC) in Suffolk, NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) in Newport News.
December:
In December USJFCOM participated in the 2006 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) in Orlando, Fla. The annual conference raises awareness on how to better train the military through modeling and simulation.
USJFCOM demonstrated capabilities it’s developing to provide better preparation, training and equipment to the joint warfighter. It looked to strengthen awareness for integrating future technologies into joint training and experimentation. The command also sought to develop new partnerships with industry.
I/ITSEC began in 1966 as the Naval Training Device Center/Industry Conference and has evolved and expanded through increased participation by the services and industry and is widely regarded as the world’s largest military-related training and simulation conference.
DoD’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program assigned a super computer to USJFCOM in December that will enhance experimentation and training efforts in modeling and simulation. The super computer, larger and more powerful than machines in use today, will yield finer details when it comes to imaging and behavior.
The super computer will be housed in USJFCOM’s Joint Training and Experimentation Center (JTEC) in Suffolk and will be accessed through the Defense Research and Engineering Network.
Finally in December, the Defense Information Systems Network Security Accreditation Working Group approved USJFCOM’s request to connect the Joint Training and Experimentation Network and Australia’s Defence Training and Experimentation Network.
The connection will allow USJFCOM, U.S. Pacific Command and the Australian Defence Force to continue work on Australia’s Joint Combined Training Capability.
The new Australian capability will allow U.S. and Australian forces to link simulation networks so they can train together in a live, virtual and constructive environment which blends live tactical forces with manned simulators and sophisticated computer models.
Air Force Maj. Don Langley, Air Force Capt. Nathan D. Broshear, MCC Jim Vorndran, MCC(SW/AW) Joel I. Huval, Army Sgt. Jon Cupp, Air Force Staff Sgt. Bryan D. Axtell, MC2(SW) Tyce Velde, Fred J. Klinkenberger Jr., Jennifer Colaizzi, Robert Pursell, and Nicole Robinson contributed to this article.
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