2019 I/ITSEC

Signature Event 11: Improving Joint and Multinational Simulation Interoperability (Room 310AB)

05 Dec 19
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Full Schedule, Signature Event, Thursday Schedule

Speaker(s): Stuart Whitehead, SES Deputy Director, Cyber and C4 Integration, U.S. Joint Staff J6; Robert Karmazin, DCDR, MR&A, SOCOM; Allison Norris, Director General, Australian Defense Simulation and Training Centre; Terrence Culton, Chief Environment Architecture Division, U.S. Joint Staff J7, Joint Training

Moderator(s): Richard "Jenks" Reid, Demonstrations Branch Chief, U.S. Joint Staff J6, DDC5I, Joint Fires Division;

Despite more than 25 years of experience in distributed simulation, we have made little progress in our ability to rapidly and routinely connect tactical simulators between different Services and nations. As live training resources diminish, simulation naturally assumes a bigger role in maintaining readiness. As we have observed during Bold Quest, numerous policy, programmatic and technical issues pose obstacles that prevent tactical warfighters from routinely training with other Service and coalition partners using distributed simulators to build and maintain joint fires proficiency. The participants in this Special Event represent organizations who are actively working toward a shared long term goal of establishing a process for continuously improving simulation interoperability. Each participant has a different simulation experience to discuss (Civil–military relations, Digitally Aided Close Air Support (DACAS), Globally Integrated Operations (GIO), Net Enabled Weapons (NEW)), but the challenges are all familiar to the audience. Together, we must work to make one-off events of simulation integration into persistent capability that can be shared across all Services and multinational partners. We hope these senior leader perspectives provide insights of interest to the I/ITSEC community on issues in networking, cybersecurity, information sharing, standards and how industry can help.