NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters Norwegian NJHQ

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters Norwegian NJHQ Computer Assisted Exercise (CAX) Brief on Simulation Sept 2017 Ltc Bjarne Korsgård Chief CAX NOR NJHQ

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters NOR CAX ORG • NOR NJHQ started in 2009 to plan a national CAX capability with a minimum organisation of 7 PAX • The first CAX supported exercise was in 2011 • Only 1 pax worked full time with CAX until 2014 • Rolands (and earlier NCI Agency) supports and educates • NJHQ CAX educates and trains national CAX operators.

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters NOR CAX • NOR CAX is a NATO SECRET level system build according to national secret regulations and has its own gateway to NATO. • NOR CAX consist of these systems/applications: – – – Joint Theater Level Simulation (JTLS) NORCCIS 7 NEC CCIS Outlook (MS Office) Joint Exercise Management Module (JEMM) Spark (Chat).

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters Objectives • Exercise Objectives • Training Objectives – Primary Training Objectives – Secondary Training Objectives • (Experimentation Objectives) – discovery, validation, demonstration

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters Constructive Simulations Simulation and CAX support personnel: • Computes the possible outcomes and results of the commands given by the TA to the simulated units and entities • Simulates the entities and conditions not controlled by the TA or EXCON according to the parameters set • Maintains a consistent white truth • Provides inputs for the C 2 systems.

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters Recent security approvals • Distributed operations to other sites • Mail from NORCAX to FISB/H (National secret) • Move files from NORCAX to FISB/H. Planning on using only one JEMM, it will be on NS and can be used directly from NORCAX.

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters NOR CAX • Operational level, coordinated with strategic and tactical level • Operating with JTLS • Used on the main national CPX and a few wargames • Planning to use it in live exercises where simulated operations are coordinated, but segregated from live operations • Currently only 3 pax but supported by many, will be 8 pax during 2017 -18.

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters CAX Support Layout During Exercises NOR NJHQ SITFOR/OPFOR SITCEN Tech Control OPFOR Land OPFOR Air OPFOR Maritime SITFOR Air AIR MAR SOF LAND Civilian Traffic Including NATO AIR RC MAR LNO LAND LNO Maritime RC Bergen Land RC Homeguard Logistics Bardufoss Bergen Kjeller Brigade North NTK SOF LNO SOF RC TKS Grey Cell LNO Cy LNO Border Sec Finmark GSV TOTAL: 23 CAX Support Staff Tot LNO Police LNO

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters NOR CAX in a CPX • Creates a reduction of reality • 2 main systems in CAX: JEMM and JTLS – JEMM Planning and structuring of the exercises – JTLS Simulation and stimulation of live systems to display the situation very realisticly. CAX will also be supporting wargames, consept developement, C 4 IS stimulation, analyses and experimentation.

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters NOR CAX – Wargaming NOR CAX has been, and will be, used as a wargaming tool.

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters Exercise Framework NJHQ Current Ops/J 3 -3 Future Ops/J 5 MEL-MIL script Near Future Ops/J 3 -5 Simulation

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters Air C 2 Stimulation ATO-T JTOI mission updates NECCIS RAP, RMP, RGP Link 16 JTLS JOI (immediately) RAP, RMP, RGP OTH Gold (Submarines in every 4 hours. The others are in every minute. AIS is in every 15 minutes. ) NORCIS

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters EXCON ORG EXCON HICON SITCEN MEL/MIL SIMCON EV MAN III EV MAN IV SCENARIO SITFOR INTEL LOCON GREY CELL LAND AIR SOF MARITIME LOG CIS INFO OPS MEDIA EVAL

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters SIMCON ORG LAND MAR AIR SOF LOG SIMCON LOCON CAX manager Responsecell DB-manager Tech. control Planners Battle captain CAX mentor MEL-MIL COORD CAX operator (10) CAXmentor (3)

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters NATO Exercises The next two major NATO exercises in 2017 and 2018 will be CAX simulated from JWC (Stavanger, Norway). NORCAX will be located to JWC and simulate the Norwegian forces under Norwegian national command using NATO JTLS.

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters • Database Challenges – Errors needs to be corrected – big job – Lacking info needs to be put in – another big job • LOG – National responsibility – not trained in NATO – Auto setting gives minimal training – Time and personnel consuming when manual setting • BDA – JTLS reports only damaged or destroyed when hit – Needs to be more detailed • Realism – Parameter settings often incorrect.

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters JTLS-GO Not tried during an exercise yet. Improvements: • • Better map functionality Easier to learn and operate More realism Better BDA functionality Easier to prepare/set up vignets for table tops Automatic/easier import to database Automatic/easier parameter settings Drag and drop functionality.

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