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U.S. ARMY
FA57 Simulation Operations
Proponent Brief
LTC Joseph M. Nolan
FA57, Proponent Officer
MOVES Institute, Naval Postgraduate School,
Monterey, CA
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M&S Congressional Caucus
Challenge
“I challenge the M&S communities to better
communicate in simple terms the importance of
modeling and simulation and to describe its value as a
nationally critical technology.”
Congressman Randy Forbes
If we don’t begin to describe the value of M&S we will
increasingly lose support.
New M&S Governance and Management Structure Organized by Communities.
Designed to Support & Integrate M&S Activities across the Department.
Led by a 1 to 2 Star M&S Steering Committee (M&S SC) to provide governance.
M&S Practices
Acquisition
AT&L
Analysis
PA&E
& JS
Planning
JS
& Policy
Testing
DOT&E
& AT&L
Training
P&R
Experimentation
JS J7
Common and Cross-Cutting M&S Tools
Common and Cross-Cutting M&S Data
Common and Cross-Cutting M&S Services
(SE FORUM)
(JADM)
(AP EXCOM)
(T2 ESG)
(JCDE EC)
Components
OSD, Joint Staff, COCOMs, Services
Goal: Establish corporate M&S management to address DoD goals:
Leads/guides/shepherds the $Bs in DoD M&S investments; adds value
thru metrics & ROI-driven priorities; and seeks to provide transparency.
Weathering the Perfect Storm
Budget Cuts
Loss of Live
Training
Resources
Returning to
Pre-War
Training
Methodology
Reset to Full
Spectrum
Operations
Demand for
more Blended
(LVCG) Training
Troop
Redeployment
of over 100K
Agenda
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History of the Program
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FA57 Proponent
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Mission
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Core Competencies
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Value to the Warfighter
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FA57 Force Structure
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Officer Development, Timeline, Education and Training
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Knowledge Sharing
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Closing comments
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Questions
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History
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1997 - The Director, National Simulation Center (NSC) designated as the
proponent for FA57 to provide the Army with officers to assist CDRs to
integrate simulations into training programs and military ops
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AUG 2000 - Army G-3 became proponent by CSA decision with increased
focus on the tactical army and joint warfighting organizations
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NOV 2003 - CSA directs that FA57 Officers attend ILE Common Core &
AOWC
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2006 - The Vision, Roles, and Force Structure requirements expand to
include Battle Command specific objectives
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2009 – Transfer of authority for Army Modeling and Simulation from DCS G3/5/7 to DCS G-8
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2012 – Acquisition Force Structure implementation
In 12 years, FA57 went from an initial structure of 65 to over 400 Active
and Reserve Component officers throughout the Army
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FA57 Proponent Mission
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Develop Army Officers who:
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Employ Simulation Tools and Services, Battle Command
systems and Knowledge Management principles for
training, acquisition, experimentation and testing
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Integrate People, Process, Technology, and Organizations
in support the full scope of military operations
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Are educated, trained and tested on the application of M&S
across all domains
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FA57 Core Competencies
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Simulation Operations
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Battle Command
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The art and science of understanding, visualizing, describing,
directing, assessing, and leading forces in operations against a
hostile, thinking, and adaptive enemy (FM 3.0)
Knowledge Management
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The art and science of applying live, virtual, constructive and
gaming simulation technologies in support of military operations,
training and acquisition activities which include, testing,
experimentation and analysis (BCTS, 2010)
Art of creating, organizing, applying, and transferring knowledge
to facilitate situational understanding and decision making (FM
6.0-1)
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Making the Link
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Knowledge Management? Battle Command? Simulations?
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What is a model or simulation?
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What is battle (mission) command?
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A synthetic means of providing information to people to make a
decision
A real world means of providing information to people to make a
decision
What is knowledge management?
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A method of providing information to people to make a decision
Simulation
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Straight Talk Definitions – Not Official Army Doctrine (yet)
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FA57 Value to the Warfighter
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We create the operational environment where leaders use all
available training resources to:
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Plan
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Train
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Test
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Experiment
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Learn
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Operate
FA57’s enable knowledge creation for the Warfighter
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FA57 Force Structure
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FY11 FA57 Force Structure
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ARNG
ACTIVE DUTY
ARNG
USAR
COL
17
LTC
71
4
16
MAJ
130
74
84
CPT
50
28
3
268
106
103
TOTAL
477 total authorizations
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* CPTs and AGR included in Totals
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Officer Development
Education, Training & Career Path
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FA57 Career Path
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PZ
MAJ Pin On
FD
BZ PZ Pin On
LTC LTC LTC
BZ PZ
COL COL
MAJ
SSC SEL
06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
SOC / BCOIC
1st Assignment
2nd Assignment
(CPT/MAJ)
(MAJ)
FA57 SIM
DEV/TNG
BASIC
BRANCH
DEPLOY
SSC
JCWS (JPME II)
3rd Assignment
(MAJ/LTC)
4th Assignment
(LTC)
5th Assignment
(LTC/COL)
JOINT
FA57 CORPS/
DIV/BDE
Needs of the Army
FA57 CORPS/
DIV/BDE
Gain functional
competencies
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CORPS
FA57
BASIC
BRANCH
NONDEPLOY
ACS
ILE/AOWC
ASCC
DA STAFF
FA57 SIM
DEV/TNG
SIM SPT/CBT DEV/MAT DEV
Build multi-skilled/ leadership
competencies through education,
training and experience
Apply acquired leadership/
functional competencies
in Senior leadership positions
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Graduate Education
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M&S focused ACS
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Naval Postgraduate School
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Old Dominion University
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University of Central Florida
GOAL:
To provide officers
with a deeper technical
understanding of
Modeling and Simulation
Online M&S Degrees
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Old Dominion University
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University of Central Florida
Certificates, Fellowships, Broadening Experiences
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Looking to use/develop more of these (NPS, OSD, DHS)
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Revitalize Training with Industry
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Tactical, Operational & Strategic
Communications
Knowledge Sharing
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The Forums
https://forums.bcks.army.mil
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Final Thoughts
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We are Capability Providers in the Areas of Simulation,
Battle Command and Operational Knowledge Management
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We are Joint and must operate in the M&S domain that way
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Development
Configuration Management Boards
Standards, break stove-pipes, common tools
The Services’, Industries’, and Academia’s NIH Program has
been defunded
Modeling and Simulation, and training/educating of M&S
professionals is the only way we will maintain readiness of
the future force during the Perfect Storm
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Questions?
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