Joint Training: Live, Virtual, and Constructive (L-V-C)

摘要

EXERCISE NORTHERN EDGE 08 (NE08) was conducted 5-16 May 08 with special emphasis on Live-Virtual-Constructive (L-V-C) operations leveraging instrumented training airspace associated with the Pacific Alaska Range Complex (PARC). NE08 was a United States Pacific Command (USPACOM) sponsored, Alaskan Command (ALCOM) executed, Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) tactical field training exercise focused on a critical USPACOM war plan. The Air Force Distributed Mission Operations Center (DMOC) served as exercise L-V-C planning Co-Chair along with ALCOM J7, and provided joint L-V-C technical and operational leadership during the joint exercise life cycle (JELC) planning, and direct technical and exercise control support during exercise execution. DMOC partnered with ALCOM, the Navy's Tactical Training Group Pacific (TTGP), Pt Loma, CA, and Joint Forces Command Joint WarfightingCenter (JWFC), Suffolk, VA, to achieve the largest tactically focused joint L-V-C network ever built. DMOC was specifically responsible for obtaining approvals on all L-V-C architecture Controlled Interface Device (CID) activity, to include use of the JFCOM Joint Training and Experimentation Network (JTEN). Approved architecture enabled the employment of both live instrumented and constructive targets in the PARC live training space and a digital-to-live Radio Frequency (RF) Virtual Tactical Bridge (VTB) by which virtual E-8C crews controlled live fighters against these targets. This demonstration of joint military crew interaction between live and virtual Command and Control (C2), Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), and live and virtual Air Interdiction fighter platforms models the vision of Training Transformation's (T2) Joint National Training Capability (JNTC). It also demonstrates significant joint evolution of L-V-C in terms of war plan mission rehearsals.