1. JTLS IUC 2015 ALLIED COMMAND TRANSFORMATION JOINT WARFARE CENTRE
Mr Ivan Vianello
Chief Team A
CAX Support Branch
Simulation Modelling & C4 Division

2. JWC Mission
JWC plans, conducts and executes operational training; conducts and supports collective training of joint and combined staffs of the NATO Command Structure (NCS) and NATO Force Structure (NFS) for Major Joint Operations (MJOs) and Small Joint Operations (SJOs)
SIMULATION,  MODELING & C4 DIVISION (SMC4) is responsible for the planning, management and provision of Computer  Assisted Exercises (CAX) and the C4 and CIS environments related to the JWC Programme of Work (POW).  
CAX SUPPORT BRANCH is responsible for  providing appropriate modeling and simulation support to deliver CAX capabilities for training events. 
he NATO Force Structure encompasses national and multinational forces and their associated operational headquarters, placed under the Alliance’s disposal on a permanent or temporary basis under specified readiness criteria.
The NATO Command Structure has a strategic scope, primarily intended to command and control the Alliance’s joint operations (i.e. operations in which more than one service are involved).
The NATO Force Structure is tactical in scope and provides additional command and control capabilities at the single service level. It is at present in the process of radical changes:

3. JWC Optimization
CAX Branch , Scenario Production , Geo Production , Mel Mil is now under the same umbrella.
Mel Mil (MSEL) is now becoming “professional” positions in JWC
MEL MIL – CAX – SCENARIO are domains naturally linked .
Now this is reflected in the Organization

4. JWC Exercises Juncture Series Jaguar Series Jewel/Jet Series
Full Joint Operations . Certification Of NRF for the following Year. All HQ’s involved .
Jaguar Series
NRDC type of exercises. Usually 2 HQ trained “almost” simultaneously.
(Nato Rapid Deployable Corps)
Jewel/Jet Series
Single Components Exercise with Joint Flavor.
Components are playing the JTF HQ role as well.

5. JWC Customers - Distrib Ex:
Joint Warfare
Centre
Joint Force
Command Brunssum
MCC Northwood
ACC Ramstein
SHAPE
Joint Force
Command Naples
LCC Izmir

6. JWC IT Infrastructure JTLS has been virtualized since 2009
In 2011 All JWC IT environment has been Virtualized including C2 .
Users has only Thin Clients on their desks
5 JTLS games instances are running simultaneously and managed by Tech control (1 R&A and 1 NATO) during an Exercise :
Main
Test
Shadow
Ato
Run Ahead /Wargame

7. Last 11 Months Activities
TRJR14
2 Different TA’s Playing simultaneously in 2 Different adjacent JOA’s.
Challenges : Airspace control , cross interaction / detection of units.
TRJE14 (scenario : NATO Territory)
Article V – Very Heavy Air/Targeting operations
- Challenges in how TA was planning the use of Stand-off weapons and COMAO’s (Orbiting , On alert , Splitting A/C etc)
TBMD (JTLS has stimulated NATO TBMD C2 System via L16)
Space Operations – JSAT
OPFOR Building a proper ATO . 2 Sides Air C2 stimulated , 2 RAP

8. J-Sat Feed

9. Last 11 Months Cont’
TRLE14 – LAND CENTRIC in NATO Territory (TRJE14 follow on)
3 CORES 15 BDE’S
TROOPS moving on FROZEN Sea
~ 900 sorties with No Air component and no ATO
JTLS running in Stavanger & Whips Deployed to GR & TU (15 Operators remotely)
4 Land C2 systems involved (2 national 2 Nato’s)
Every C2 was stimulated with their own perceived picture using Ownsitrep from JTLS.
C2 couldn t handle the full Orbat in a single message . We had Specific Whips generating Land Messages for Sub Branches of the Orbat.
Every Cores was responsible to generate the RGP and send it to Joint level in order to generate the Common Join t Land Pic

10. C2 Stimulation TRLN14 NCOP JWC TACCIS SDEP Simulation RC CAX RC CAX
LANDCOM & MNC(NE) RC
LC2IS
LC2IS
GRAF
MCCIS
NCOP
Adat-p3
Ownsitrep Ensitrep
JWC
TACCIS
SDEP
Oth Gold messages
Adat-p3
Ownsitrep
Ensitrep
Manual
Update
Simulation RC
CAX RC
CAX
NRDC-T
NRDC-G

11. Last 11 Months Cont
TRJL15 MARITIME CENTRIC
Intense and realistic RMP requirements
AIS (automatic Identif System) feed required
To Role play AIS feed , JTLS was sending every hour a FULL update of the white Shipping Orbat to a separate MCC C2 BOX
TRJR15
2 Training Audiences (2 different DB’s) with 1 Week in between
Hybrid Warfare (combining kinetic operations with subversive efforts)

12. Last 11 Months Cont Planning:
Wargaming
Planning:
To support scenario in providing a consistent picture to TA after Ph2b (Crisis response planning)
To have a more realistic picture in terms of figures ,casualties,timing to help Scenario writing the “Road to Crisis ” and “why” NATO is involved in a specific operation.
Execution:
To Support Opfor in forecasting their Plan , check / evaluate the effects on the TA of the planned Incidents or any dynamic scripting .
Evaluating training opportunities

13. Some Figures Nov 14 – May 15 134.129 3% (Magic) 1680 4 7 2 ongoing 3
Orders Sent during last 5 Ex
3% (Magic)
Model Execution Hours
1680
Model Crashes 4
Databases (including TRJE15 & JET 16) 7
2 ongoing
Settings (Geo) (including TRJE15) 3

14. Upcoming Exercise TRJE15 High Visibility NATO Exercise (CAX+LIVEX) .
CANADA will join from remote (combined NATO + National EX)
Canada will have some national forces contributing to the operation.
Canada will Run an Exercise (National ) inside the NATO Exercsie
24 / 7 Exercise
SIM deployed Overseas and in Spain
SPACE OPS (Needs to Play Space effects i.e Solar Flares)
New RC’s :
Civilian Air (Italian National Air Traff Control is joining).
Intel Cell to support TA with Reporting coming from JTLS
Heavy JISR’s Gameplay with Live UAV Sim Streaming .
Civilian White Shipping Feed required (AIS / Live feed etc etc)

15. Ex upcoming requirements:
J – ISR capabilities
- Intel Cell , Reporting
Hybrid Warfare (Already started with new scenario's)
military strategy that blends conventional warfare , irregular warfare and cyber warfare , by combining kinetic operations with subversive efforts.
Cyber effects
Already played using JTLS
Human Behavior Modeling
JWC is looking into some solutions to possibly integrate in JTLS gameplay.

16. JWC ROADMAP to 5.0 Initially planned for next Oct Ex
LOGFAS Interface (Initialization) + several ECP’s would have improved RC operations
DB developed already
Maps 70% built
Will be used for an internal NATO Project in Nov
We are considering to use it in Jan For JET 16
Definitely for JR16 (March/Apr)

17. JWC view CAX Environment needs to be as simplier as possible
Scenarios Size and Exercises themselves are by default already complicated enough (Gravity Points)
CAX Environment has to be easily reproducible after the exercise with minimum manpower and resources
CAX Environment has to be easily manageable , deployable with minimum manpower and resources (1 , 2 people to handle it)
Minimize the possibility that required Architecture updates , can prevent a new model version to be used for an event.
Ex Requirements Change drastically and dynamically several time per year .Without a manageble system , with such a evolving environment is very easy to end up with useless , counter productive solutions.

18. Simulation Modelling & C4 Division
QUESTIONS
Mr Ivan Vianello
Chief Team A
CAX Support Branch
Simulation Modelling & C4 Division