JTLS-JCATS Federation Support of Emergency Response Training
September 2003
Andy Bowers, The MITRE Corporation
David L. Prochnow, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
The Joint Warfighting Center (JWFC) supports Combatant
Commander exercise programs with several simulation
suites. Ten years ago simulated scenarios involved combat.
Increasingly, however, scenarios depict crises requiring
humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, or similar
emergency response (ER). JWFC responded to the change
in scenario requirements by developing a simulation suite
using existing Joint Simulations and the High Level Architecture
(HLA). This paper briefly introduces JWFC’s
concept of simulation-based exercise support and recommends
its application to training and exercising members
of an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) or other ER
management staff. The bulk of the paper describes federating
the Joint Theater Level Simulation (JTLS) with the
Joint Conflict and Tactical Simulation (JCATS). The paper
presents a notional scenario involving the simulated
detonation of a chemical weapon and articulates how the
decisions made by the training audience, members of an
EOC, result in simulated actions and events taken to mitigate
casualties.
Additional Search Keywords
JTLS, JCATS, HLA, training, Emergency Response
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