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Notes
Epigraph. “Q&A: Gen. David G. Perkins,” Military Training
Technology, 10 October 2014, http://www.kmimediagroup.com/
military-training-technology/440-articles-mtt/q-a-general-david-g-perkins (accessed 10 November 2014).
1. Retired Gen. Robert Cone, former commanding general
for U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (opening
lecture, 2013 Association of the United States Army [AUSA]
Institute of Land Warfare Winter Symposium and Exposition,
Fort Lauderdale, FL, 20 February 2013), reported in C. Todd
Lopez, “Army Must Shift Focus From Execution to Preparation,”
online at U.S. Army Homepage, http://www.army.mil, news
archive (accessed 2 December 2014). Cone said the Army
must shift from resourcing the fight in Afghanistan to preparing for future conflict by investing in leader development and
training.
2. Combined Arms Center-Training (CAC-T), “Memorandum for Record: DCG CAC-T Description of the Complex
Training Operational Environment (Version 26) and updated
implementing guidance,” Brig. Gen. Mike Lundy, 29 January
2014.
3. Army Training Summit II working groups met 16-20
May 2011, 21-23 June 2011, and 18-22 July 2011 at Fort
Leavenworth, KS. The one-star video teleconference occurred
9 August 2011. Army Training Summit II took place 14-15
September 2011.
4. Headquarters, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine
Command (TRADOC), TRADOC Tasking Order IN13251649: TRADOC Support to the Army Approved Functional/
Multi-Functional (F/M-F) Unit Training Strategy, 21 November
2011.
5. TRADOC Pamphlet (TP) 350-70-1, Training Development in Support of the Operational Domain (Fort Eustis,
VA: TRADOC, 24 February 2012). A WTSP is a complete,
stand-alone, exportable training package that integrates
all training products, resources, and materials necessary to
support operating force training. It meets the broader scope
of what the collective training community requires for training
events. WTSPs may vary greatly in size and depth of content
depending on the events to be trained, training environment,
audience, and available training aids. A WTSP provides variable levels of detail for describing a unit training event for use
in live, virtual (including gaming), and constructive environments, or any combination thereof.
6. Training Circular 7-101, Exercise Design (Washington,
DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 26 November 2010);
TP 350-70-1 provides detailed guidance supporting TRADOC Regulation 350-70, Army Learning and Policy Systems
(Fort Eustis, VA: TRADOC, 6 December 2011) and amplifying
guidance on procedures for producing unit training products.
This guide utilizes the instructional system design model often
referred to as the analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation process.
7. Army Training Network, Leaders Guide to Training in the
Integrated Training Environment: Brigade and Battalion Exercise Planning (Fort Leavenworth, KS: Army Training Network,
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25 September 2014), online at https://atn.army.mil (accessed
2 December 2014); CAC-T Memorandum for Record. Brig.
Gen. Lundy directed the integration of the TBR into the integrated training environment.
8. The Joint, Live, Virtual, and Constructive ( JLVC) 2020
Technical Architecture is an update to the Joint Training
Environment to meet Joint Force 2020 training needs. The
technical architecture is an enterprise architecture vice integration of monolithic models; it includes cloud computing and
Web 2.0 technologies, and it is requirements based and risk
managed. Joint Staff J-7 leads the JLVC 2020 effort. JLVC2020
Cloud-Enabled Modular Services includes a Scenario Management Tool that includes event design and scenario design
tools. The joint EDT may provide a large portion of the services required for the SMT.
9. Modernized Integrated Database is a Dep artment of
Defense Intelligence Information System Intelligence Mission
Application. It serves as the primary repository for data production and dissemination of military intelligence involving
worldwide orders of battle, facilities, command and control
networks, targeting, battle damage assessments, and other
related information required for strategic assessments and
national policy decision making.
10. The TBOC selected to use Order of Battle Service
(OBS) eXtensible Markup Language (XML) as the modeling
and simulation output format for the TBR-EDT. The OBS
XML was developed in support of the JLVC federation, and
it provides a single source for initialization data across all of
its federates. The 23 federates utilized within the JLVC cover
models and simulations across joint, Army, Navy, Air Force,
and Marine Corps forces.
11. Decisive Action Training Environment (DATE) version
2.1, February 2014. TRADOC Intelligence Support Activity
developed DATE to provide the Army training community
with a detailed description of the conditions of five virtual
operational environments in the Caucasus region: Ariana,
Atropia, Gorgas, Minaria, and Donovia.
12. TRADOC, Contemporary Operational Environment
Actors & Role Players Handbook (Fort Leavenworth, KS: TRADOC Intelligence Support Activity, August 2007), https://rdl.
train.army.mil/catalog-ws/view/100.ATSC/C3E9AA9E-AC0242B8-9365-A06699145435-1274554507263/159-d-0003/
coe_arp_hdbk.pdf (accessed 17 November 2014).
13. Senior opposing force analyst comment made during
the initial unit testing in late August 2013 of the TBR, Fort
Campbell, KY.
14. Comment made by an FA57 officer during a 2014
FA57 Course that included an introduction of the TBR-EDT.
The TBR-EDT is currently introduced in various military
instructional venues, including the FA57 Course and Brigade
Pre-Command Course.
15. During several visits to the TBOC, senior Army and
joint officers have made positive comments regarding the
TBR-EDT, including the referenced comment.
16. Additional information is available at the TBOC homepage: http://tboc.army.mil (accessed 17 November 2014).

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