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United States Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) is the predominantlead in that area, but each of the services hasrepresentatives.I have people on my staff who work in this building, but thereare also some people who are engaged and work at USJFCOMJ9. They help to coordinate the exercise and experimentation requirementsthat go into the kinds of transformational things wewant to look at from a joint perspective.I met recently with Dan Davenport [Rear Adm. Dan W. Davenport,Director, Joint Concept Development and Experimentation(J9)] at USJFCOM, who is a two-star Navy officer. Navy WarfareDevelopment Command is the Navy’s enterprise lead for thatcoordination. It dovetails with my experimentation hat.I will soon have a two-day session where we will look at thekinds of things that we want to experiment across the joint arenaso that each service can identify what we want to test and evaluateor look into further as a spiral experiment in a joint context,partnered with other services.In order to reach joint solutions, we try to build solutions asmuch as possible from the bedrock of naval service capabilitiesand develop joint interoperability and capability, with not onlyour communications systems, but with the manner in which weoperate and the way we generate doctrine.Our goal is to ensure alignment among our force, methodsand important missions, such as command and control andcommunications, for operations across the full spectrum. Theresult will be greater efficiency and effectiveness.Much of this will feed into the training that will go through[JFCOM’s] J7 when they are working to train forces going intoIraq or Afghanistan or the Joint Task Force Horn of Africa, whichis predominately manned by Navy personnel at this point.JFCOM’s J9 and J7 go hand-in-hand, and much of what NWDCdoes with respect to experimentation feeds into there, and itfeeds into the Navy Continuous Training Environment.CHIPS: Can you discuss the NWDC's modeling and simulation programand operations analysis?Rear Adm. Carpenter: Very smart people are involved in bothmodeling and simulation and operations analysis. Operationsanalysis supports most of the other things we do. A lot of whatNWDC does supports concepts and doctrine. The other programshelp us in meeting the requirements to deliver to thefleet concepts and doctrine.Modeling and simulation support us in the experimentationrole because we take lessons learned or a concept we are developingand conduct war games or experimentation to furtherexamine the areas that we need to test.For instance, doctrine may change as technology changes, sowe need to experiment with that. Sometimes, we want to do anorganizational change. Right now, the Navy is doing some organizationalchanges with respect to a concept called MHQ withMOC, Maritime Headquarters with Maritime Operations Center.That is a major command and control initiative.The modeling and simulation helps us to not only duplicatecapabilities that enemies may have and experiment againstthose, but we can also simulate friendly forces. Through ourmodeling and simulation capabilities, we can replicate all of thisin a virtual environment.Rear Adm. Wendi B. Carpenter's promotion ceremony Aug. 8. Joining the admiralare her former aide Lt. Nolan King, her daughter Rachel Carpenter, andfriend June Gurr.We can now model realistic forces, including U.S. and foreignships, submarines and aircraft. We link all these things togetherto conduct experimentation but also employ the simulation forfleet training. These efforts serve dual purposes as we evolvemodeling and simulation continuously by completing experiments,while still meeting requirements for fleet training.Occasionally, we combine experimentation with fleet exercisesor training and support [that] with simulation. We deployan analysis team to conduct evaluations of what’s happening.They are not evaluating the performance of the fleet but theway that doctrine is applied and whether or not techniquesand procedures are accurate. Or, they look at what may needto be changed in response to evolving scenarios, conditions ortechnologies.The team brings that information back and completes an indepthanalysis. Last week, I took a report back from an exercisecalled Terminal Fury, which places the Pacific Fleet in a high-endscenario with a lot of moving parts. My folks came back withall the data that we captured with the modeling and simulationpieces.We know what happened, what kinds of forces were presentedto the training audience, and what their responses were. Weknow what kind of actions and decisions the commander made.Having all of that is a powerful force to promote change and maturityin our operations and concepts.Now, we can analyze all of those and figure out if there werepieces where we were inadequate in our training, if we needto modify our doctrine or tactics, techniques and procedures,or if in the scenarios presented, we can identify where we canchange our concepts a little bit to give ourselves an operationalor strategic advantage.Operations analysis enables us to get the maximum benefitout of these kinds of scenarios, benefiting not only the trainingaudience, but allowing us to take away pieces that can informour whole Navy so we make the whole organization better.It all melds very closely together, and every single one of theseareas within NWDC has to be running on all cylinders in order tofeed the rest of them. There is no one area that’s supreme, andthey all complement each other.As we work with other organizations, we consider ourselvesCHIPS October – December 2008 7