NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters Norwegian NJHQ

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters Norwegian NJHQ Computer Assisted Exercise (CAX) Brief on Simulation Dec 2018 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 trains own 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 NOR CAX – NORCCIS 7

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters NOR CAX – NEC CCIS

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, tabletops, consept developement, C 4 IS stimulation, analyses and experimentation.

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters JEMM (Joint Exercise Management Module)

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

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 NJHQ NOR CAX ORG TRJE 18 CAX MGR TRJE 17 (Phil) NATO TECH CONTR TRJE 17 1 CAX MGR NOR TRJE 17 (Bjarne Korsgård (NJHQ)) NOR TECH CONTR TRJE 17 CAX CONTR TRJE 17 (Red) 1 CAX CONTR NOR TRJE 17 (Ove Fjeldstad (NJHQ)) 2 TC (Pål Larssen (NJHQ)) 1 NORCCIS – Interface (Geir Wikerholmen (NJHQ)) (Bjørn Erlend Olsen (NATO SCC)) NOR NATO (OPCON) 1 CAX (Ørjan Jacobsen) (NJHQ) 132 LV 133 LV 135 LV 139 LV 1 CAX (Bjørge Magnussen (NJHQ)) 430. 01 FSK 430. 02 1 SOTG 1 SOTU SWE/FIN OPPDATERT: 05. 11. 2018 (Simon Remøy (NDMA), Karl Magnus Ramberg. Mohn, Thomas Gran (NDMA)) NOR NJHQ 1 CAX (Tor Arnljot K Johannessen (NORTG)) Brig N MJK 3 TC C 4 IS 1 NEC CCIS Interface SWE/FIN 1 CAX (Leif -Owe Birkeland (NOR CG)) OPFOR MAR 1 CAX (Nicolai Wessel (NJHQ)) (Fredrik Weidemann (NJHQ) (Knut Jostein Gartland (HG-12)) SOF 430. 03 NTK CTL HMKG NAOC SWE/FIN

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters Challenges • Database – Making a complete new DB • LOG – National responsibility – not trained in NATO – Auto setting gives minimal training – Time and personnel consuming when manual setting • Reporting – Reports often not detailed enough • • • Personnel; what unit do they belong to (down to battalion/wing/vessel level) BDA; JTLS reports only damaged or destroyed when hit Realism – Parameter settings too often incorrect.

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters Future focus • More frequent use of JTLS (vignets of plans) – J 3 (including subs and SOF) – J 4, J 5, J 6 and J 9 (CIMIC) • Including the tactical level in operational exercises – Providing tactical C 2 data into operational C 2 systems – Tactical simulation data into JTLS, Rolands to cooperate with JCATS to make it work

NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES Norwegian Joint Headquarters Bodø City wintertime Questions? Northern light (Aurora Borealis) Midnight sun