US Joint Forces Command plans to absorb the Joint Warfare System—a simulation tool that officials say was “born joint,” making it immensely appealing. The took had been the property of Pentagon’s Program Analysis and Evaluation Office. Command officials say that JWARS can simulate whole-theater, 90-day campaigns within a few hours and is capable of multiple simultaneous runs to capture statistical variations in war exercises. The program allows combatant commanders to analyze the results of battle campaigns, course of action and command and control decisions – all of which lead to reducing risk before deployment, according to Tony Cerri, who leads JFCOM experimentation engineering.
The Air Force has dispatched an element of its Natural Disaster Recovery Team to Guam in the wake of Super Typhoon Mawar, which has caused widespread damage on the island and at Andersen Air Force Base. The team will assess the damage and put together a recovery cost estimate for…