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The Mission Command Battle Lab kicked off the fiscal year 2012 experimentation campaign Nov. 15-17 with the Engagement Experiment, the first event in a series along the “Army of 2020” line of effort.
This experiment was a discovery learning event focused on the Army’s requirements to shape and deter (joint phases 0 and I). This effort educated the community of practice on the diplomatic, information, military and economic required capabilities and interdependencies in phases 0/I and produced a product that informs stakeholders and senior leaders on the whole of government’s ability to set the theater.
The Army Capabilities Integration Center has designated the MCBL to lead its FY12 experimentation campaign. The campaign consists of a series of six seminars, conferences, and human-in-the-loop simulation-driven experiments designed to address designated learning objectives and provide a forum for proponent battle labs to inform learning demands.
The Army’s experimentation community of practice will conduct the Engagement Experiment using the Battle Laboratory Collaborative Simulation Environment secure network. This distributed methodology leverages virtual collaborative tools while lowering overall costs. The experiment will include presentations on joint phases 0/1 by Army and joint representatives on current and anticipated future issues integral to coordinating and synchronizing joint forcible entry operations at the theater, corps and division levels of command. This design enables all stakeholders to address and socialize proponent issues, identify dependencies, interdependencies, critical enablers, roles and responsibilities, and assess current and future capability gaps. The Engagement Experiment establishes the baseline for the remainder of the FY12 Experimentation Campaign of Learning.
The experimentation campaign will address Army of 2020 force design capabilities against a hybrid threat with a modernized conventional force and substantial irregular elements, including criminal support and threats to the U.S. homeland. This hybrid threat will be adaptive and capable of learning, seeking advantages through a combination of regular and irregular capabilities, conventional and unconventional tactics unconstrained by legal concepts and unified toward a common purpose.
Operations in this future operational environment will require a combination of military and interagency power and influence to achieve long-term stability. The experimentation campaign will identify critical interdependencies required among the military and government organizations to succeed against this threat.
To ensure the Army of 2020 force design course of action is effective across the entire spectrum of conflict for all unified land operations, MCBL will lead investigations into required capabilities across all six joint phases — shape, deter, seize initiative, dominate, stabilize and enable civil authority.
Results and outputs from the Engagement Experiment will establish a common foundation for the transition into the Gain and Maintain Operational Access Shaping Experiment Jan. 18-27. This event will determine courses of action and start-of-experiment conditions for the June 2012 GAMOA SIMEX, which will span the seize initiative and dominate phases.
April 17-19, MCBL will lead the Build and Prepare Shaping Experiment, which will set conditions for the Aug. 12 Build and Prepare Experiment, focusing on stabilization and war termination.
The June 4-29 SIMEX will serve to validate required joint enablers, the “minimum tactically significant force” and will determine courses of action to defeat enemy anti-access and area denial capabilities.
In August, MCBL leads the Build and Prepare Experiment to identify mission command challenges in stability and war termination activities, and redeployment.
Ultimately, MCBL will lead a Senior Leader Campaign Outbrief Sept. 11-13 to inform Army leadership of the insights gleaned throughout the year’s experimentation, incorporating lessons identified in the Unified Quest line of effort.
MCBL leads this experimentation plan as part of a comprehensive ARCIC campaign of learning. Other Training and Doctrine Command lines of effort include ARCIC’s main effort, the Title X Future Study Plan and wargame series “Unified Quest,” as well as joint and service Title X wargames and studies support.
Editor’s note: Dr. Carl Fischer is a contractor with the Mission Command Battle Lab S3.
The Mission Command Battle Lab kicked off the fiscal year 2012 experimentation campaign Nov. 15-17 with the Engagement Experiment, the first event in a series along the “Army of 2020” line of effort.
This experiment was a discovery learning event focused on the Army’s requirements to shape and deter (joint phases 0 and I). This effort educated the community of practice on the diplomatic, information, military and economic required capabilities and interdependencies in phases 0/I and produced a product that informs stakeholders and senior leaders on the whole of government’s ability to set the theater.
The Army Capabilities Integration Center has designated the MCBL to lead its FY12 experimentation campaign. The campaign consists of a series of six seminars, conferences, and human-in-the-loop simulation-driven experiments designed to address designated learning objectives and provide a forum for proponent battle labs to inform learning demands.
The Army’s experimentation community of practice will conduct the Engagement Experiment using the Battle Laboratory Collaborative Simulation Environment secure network. This distributed methodology leverages virtual collaborative tools while lowering overall costs. The experiment will include presentations on joint phases 0/1 by Army and joint representatives on current and anticipated future issues integral to coordinating and synchronizing joint forcible entry operations at the theater, corps and division levels of command. This design enables all stakeholders to address and socialize proponent issues, identify dependencies, interdependencies, critical enablers, roles and responsibilities, and assess current and future capability gaps. The Engagement Experiment establishes the baseline for the remainder of the FY12 Experimentation Campaign of Learning.
The experimentation campaign will address Army of 2020 force design capabilities against a hybrid threat with a modernized conventional force and substantial irregular elements, including criminal support and threats to the U.S. homeland. This hybrid threat will be adaptive and capable of learning, seeking advantages through a combination of regular and irregular capabilities, conventional and unconventional tactics unconstrained by legal concepts and unified toward a common purpose.
Operations in this future operational environment will require a combination of military and interagency power and influence to achieve long-term stability. The experimentation campaign will identify critical interdependencies required among the military and government organizations to succeed against this threat.
To ensure the Army of 2020 force design course of action is effective across the entire spectrum of conflict for all unified land operations, MCBL will lead investigations into required capabilities across all six joint phases — shape, deter, seize initiative, dominate, stabilize and enable civil authority.
Results and outputs from the Engagement Experiment will establish a common foundation for the transition into the Gain and Maintain Operational Access Shaping Experiment Jan. 18-27. This event will determine courses of action and start-of-experiment conditions for the June 2012 GAMOA SIMEX, which will span the seize initiative and dominate phases.
April 17-19, MCBL will lead the Build and Prepare Shaping Experiment, which will set conditions for the Aug. 12 Build and Prepare Experiment, focusing on stabilization and war termination.
The June 4-29 SIMEX will serve to validate required joint enablers, the “minimum tactically significant force” and will determine courses of action to defeat enemy anti-access and area denial capabilities.
In August, MCBL leads the Build and Prepare Experiment to identify mission command challenges in stability and war termination activities, and redeployment.
Ultimately, MCBL will lead a Senior Leader Campaign Outbrief Sept. 11-13 to inform Army leadership of the insights gleaned throughout the year’s experimentation, incorporating lessons identified in the Unified Quest line of effort.
MCBL leads this experimentation plan as part of a comprehensive ARCIC campaign of learning. Other Training and Doctrine Command lines of effort include ARCIC’s main effort, the Title X Future Study Plan and wargame series “Unified Quest,” as well as joint and service Title X wargames and studies support.
Editor’s note: Dr. Carl Fischer is a contractor with the Mission Command Battle Lab S3.
