 Noble
Resolve 07-2 kicks off
Long-distance
virtual connections came online as simulations began
to support decision-making and working together in a
crisis situation as U.S. Joint Forces Command's Noble
Resolve 07-2 started in Suffolk, Va.
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By Robert Pursell
USJFCOM Public Affairs
(SUFFOLK,
Va. - Aug. 20, 2007) -- U.S. Joint Forces Command's (USJFCOM)
Noble Resolve 07-2 kicked off today and will
conduct a series of simulation-driven experiments throughout
the week to enhance homeland defense measures and military
support to civil agencies during natural or man-made disasters.
Noble
Resolve, sponsored by USJFCOM, is an experimentation
campaign plan supporting U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM)
to develop solutions for U.S. agencies and organizations
by providing the means to deter, prevent, and defeat threats
and aggression aimed at the U.S., its territories, and
interests.
Noble Resolve 07-2 will use intricate computer-based models
and long distance virtual connections to provide the environment
for participants to make decisions and work together as
they would in the case of a real crisis.
By using the models, no troops or emergency personnel
will actually have to deploy or respond to events, saving
money and time.
Navy
Capt. John Kersh, the experimentation director of Noble
Resolve discussed the purpose of the
campaign.
"We're trying to enhance homeland defense by putting
together an experimentation venue that allows interested
parties to work research objectives of mutual interest," he
said. "We're actually distributing the game itself
with this series of vignettes so that organizations do
not have to leave where they normally work, which is gigantic.
Noble Resolve 07-2 will bring approximately 100 people
from across the United States and abroad to develop solutions
to provide improved defense support to civil authorities
and build upon global partnerships.
In addition to NORTHCOM, USJFCOM will work with the state
of Oregon, the Joint Task Force Homeland Defense, located
in Hawaii, and other federal agencies such as the Dept.
of Homeland Security, the FBI and FEMA. It will also partner
with the Republic of Korea, as well as other foreign liaison
officers from other countries.
Last April's Noble Resolve 07-1 held experimental scenarios
with the commonwealth of Virginia; however with Noble Resolve
07-2, the focus will be on the state of Oregon and the
Pacific theater.
Kersh said throughout the campaign, USJFCOM will benefit
not only from the opportunity to work with partners in
this collaborative environment, but also from the chance
to apply some of its own modeling and simulation products.
Kersh also discussed the future of the campaign and the
optimism of where it's headed.
"This is a multi-year homeland defense experimentation
campaign plan and we're going to have another spring time
event next year and another fall event," he said. "They'll
be even more distributed with more partners using this
common operational picture and we'll bring in additional
modeling and simulation products to help out. It's just
going to get better from here on out."
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