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Headquarters U.S. Air Force
Integrity - Service - Excellence
Joint National Training Capability:
The Air Force Implementation
Perspective
Brig Gen Norman Seip
AF/DXOO
10 Jul 03
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AF Joint Training
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Superior core training has been the key enabler for Air Force
successes in combat over the years
Today, a majority of AF flying hours associated with major
training events are flown in conjunction with or in support of
other Services or Coalition partners
 Combat Air Forces exercises (Red Flags, Air Warriors)
 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff exercises (Roving
Sands, Joint Task Force Exercises)
 Joint Airborne Air Transportability Training
The future is to transform our joint training by building on
Service successes and technology initiatives
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AF JNTC Implementation
Priorities
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Distributed Mission Operations (DMO): Link live, virtual, and
constructive high fidelity simulators and C2ISR assets into an
interactive synthetic training environment
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Joint Close Air Support: Improve how we fight as a joint team
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Range Modernization: Protect ranges and enhance range
instrumentation/connectivity
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The Question:
Can We Train It All Live?
Constraints to live training:
Few Joint/Coalition training venues
Dwindling exercise $$
Flying time issues
Classified capabilities
Safety
High PERSTEMPO, OPTEMPO
Airspace availability
Restricted weapons / EW envelopes
Environmental concerns
Complex rules of engagement
What we really need:
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High Fidelity Virtual Battlespace
Full Sensor & C2 Representation
Composite Force Operations
Full Combat Mission Rehearsal
Sensor-to-Shooter Interactions
Joint/Coalition Interoperability
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The Answer: Distributed
Mission Operations (DMO)
“DMO will be the only realistic way we can get ISR
and shooters hooked up to test and train modern
evolutions of tactics - like time critical targeting that requires real time interface among platforms
that are too stressed by OPTEMPO to train
together in peacetime.”
Gen John P Jumper, CSAF
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Distributed Mission Operations
Training Levels
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Individual
Team
Inter-Team
Player Types
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Full Mission
Rehearsal
Live
Virtual
 Man in the
Loop
Constructive
 Computer
Generated
The Next Generation in
Joint Readiness Training
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Exercise First WAVE
“First Warfighter Alliance in a Virtual Environment”
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Link DMO assets from 7 NATO nations
Good will participation… both Nations and Industry
Composite Air Operations (COMAO) scenario in Kosovo
Builds an infrastructure for the future
RCAF, CA
RCAF, CA
(Mirabel)
(Bagotville)
RAF, UK
NLR, NL
(Lossiemouth)
(Amsterdam)
RNLAF, NL
CAE, CA
(Volkel)
(Montreal)
DRDC, CA
RCAF, CA
(Toronto)
(Winnepeg)
TNO, NL
(The Hague)
European
ATM Cloud
Alenia, IT
North American
ATM Cloud
(Turin)
USAF, SC
(Shaw)
AFRL, AZ
(Mesa)
N-G NOC
(Orlando)
USAF, NM
(TACCSF)
FAF, FR
(Orange)
GAF, GE
(Ottobrunn)
USAF, FL
(Eglin)
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DMO Implementation Roadmap
(An Incremental Approach)
Goal - Robust Mission Environment by FY10
Mission Training Center (MTC) at each operational unit
Fighter &
Air Battle
Mgmt
F-15C F-16C
AWACS, SOF
Lateral
Integration
of ISR
Assets
C2, Space,
AEF Mission
Rehearsal
JNTC
Full
Capability
J-STARS, Rivet Joint,
F-22, F-15E, B-2
Joint/Coalition
Predator, ABL
AOC, TACP,Space
DMO
FY 99
FY 10
Incremental Expansion of DMO Network and Capabilities
Individual Training
Mission Rehearsal
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The Bottom Line!
“I was downtown at the start of tonight’s activities
and got to launch the first HARM of Operation Iraqi
Freedom…the location of my flight and the tactics
employed were EXACTLY like we were practicing in
the F-16 MTC at Shaw before we left…talk about
Mission Rehearsal!”
ANG F-16 pilot,
Weapons School Grad
MTC= Mission Training Center
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Joint Close Air Support (JCAS)
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Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom reinforced the
critical need for Services to train and fight as a joint team
Joint National Training Center (JNTC) capability is the focal point
for improved JCAS training, and the proving ground for Joint
Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
 JNTC will create live, virtual constructive simulation
environments for synergistic combined arms training
 Opportunity to provide training for all elements of the Theater
Air Ground System
 Provides services the opportunity to “train the way we fight” in
a joint warfighting environment
JCAS is the primary focus of the first JNTC exercise in Jan 04
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Range Modernization
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Guiding principles
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Reverse the erosion of range infrastructure
 Increase joint interoperability
 Build on the success of the last training transformation
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Key range components
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Scoring, measurement, and feedback systems
 Threat systems
 Targets
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Challenges
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Event accreditation and site certification
 Develop and maintain standards
 Develop an interdisciplinary approach
 Recognize the interdependency between test and training infrastructure
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The AF JNTC Implementation
Way Ahead
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Currently staffing the Air Force T2/JNTC CONOPS and
implementation plan to support the recently approved Office of
the Secretary of Defense’s Implementation plan
 Stand up an implementation team
 Assist OSD/JFCOM to develop JNTC requirements, cost
estimates, and roadmaps
Develop warfighters who intuitively think jointly
Strengthen joint operations by preparing forces for new
warfighting concepts
End state: Transform joint training to enable our war-fighters to
operate more effectively in joint operations
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