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ISSUE 5.2011

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MS&T MAGAZINE

And so we do the same thing with modeling and simulation, lessons learned, or any facet of our organization that is going to be focused directly on the warfighter via training. The bottom line: we are going to continue to fulfill our responsibilities to training the joint forces – it’s been a demand, a loud cry from the joint force, and a concern, frankly, that we must continue to deliver the same training as in the past. As soon as the disestablishment was announced there was considerable concern that there might be some diminishment in the deliverable of training product for the joint community. We have a chance to prove that will not be the case in the coming year. MS&T: We have watched USJFCOM develop M&S over the years to support joint training. How will the command’s M&S portfolio be retained and evolve within the new JCW construct? MGR: I understand your focus on modeling and simulation, and I have to tell you as succinctly as I can put it, that M&S will not be affected in the short term as we go through our year of transition. My intent as directed by General Odierno [Commander, USJFCOM] and in consultation with the Joint Staff is to maintain the same linkages into the M&S community that we have had up to this point. That will be fulfilled. I hope that you and others who track M&S in the Hampton Roads area will be able to give us some feedback on this as we progress into our organizational construct. The intent is to have no perceivable change in the M&S community regarding our new Joint and Coalition Warfighting construct. MS&T: And let’s jump ahead to talk about some of the evolving missions and challenges such as cyber warfare for the joint training community. MGR: Cyber is a growth industry. It will be something we will have a share in. It will be part of the portfolio for another aspect of the Joint Staff remaining in the Hampton Roads area, the Deputy Director, C4, formerly J-8 [Joint Capability Development Directorate]. They will have part of the cyber portfolio as well. But let me talk about cyber training because that clearly falls into our domain. We’re going to emphasize a community approach to training across the entire joint learning continuum. We’re building a significant and consistent partnership with cyber operations. We are working with U.S. Strategic Command and U.S. Cyber Command, a component of STRATCOM, to address joint cyberspace operations and then include that training holistically. This includes getting staff officers, team leaders and others to begin to feel that as we actually put them through their paces in the training environment. This has happened more recently in almost every one of our exercises where there has been a cyber component to the operation. That is “a keeper.” That is going to continue to happen. We have to expand our understanding and portfolio with regard to cyber training to respond to the needs of the warfighter. MS&T: We have heard about an evolving joint training paradigm. Please expand on this and tell us what new innovations the joint training audiences will see in the next several years. MGR: There’s a lot on the joint training horizon that is new and innovative. What we try to do is take the best practices that have been offered to us from the services and/or the COCOMs, because we are not just trainers but we are also learning from our audiences. We are turning that around and feeding that back into the training environment. We have some examples of the innovation that you are trying to get to.