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In addition, the TBOC and the Joint Staff
Directorate for Joint Force Development ( J-7) are
partners in an effort to create a joint EDT that is
joint exercise life-cycle-based and will be available
on the SECRET Internet Protocol Router Network.
This joint tool may become a large piece of the
Joint Live Virtual Constructive 2020’s “Scenario
Management Tool,” a single EDT that will incorporate additional joint data to enable developing joint
training exercises for all the services.8

Components of the Exercise Design
Tool
TRADOC created the TBR-EDT capability by
integrating separate capabilities and technologies
to automate the exercise design process. This effort
required designers to combine and integrate authoritative data, start-of-exercise data, mapping and operational graphics, a storyline synchronization tool,
a collaboration capability, role player development,
higher headquarters’ operation orders, and data
reuse, while mapping the entire process.
Authoritative data. The TBR-EDT links with
and receives data from authoritative sources includPL Gold
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Department of the Army’s Intelligence Information
Service, the Central Army Registry, the Combined
Arms Training Strategy, the Joint Lessons Learned
Information System, and the J-7’s Joint Training
Data Service.
It publishes to the Rapid Data Generation
Common Data Production Environment, enabling
the rapid discovery, retrieval, and reuse of data
and services across the spectrum of communities
enabled by modeling and simulation. The goal is
to present the right type of authoritative data to
the user at the appropriate point in the exercise
design process, alleviating the need to search for
each type of data separately. To support regionally
aligned force training, the red force (opposing or
threat structure) will soon include real-world threat
data, provided through the Modernized Integrated
Database.9
Collaboration. The collaboration capability
in the TBR-EDT allows a unit staff, or numerous
distributed service or joint staffs, to work simultaneously on developing the WTSP documentation.
Upon creating the exercise, the initial exercise
owner can further assign and delegate (or disable as
required) additional roles to other users.

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Figure 1. TBR-EDT Mapping and Graphics, Task Organization
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