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National Defense December 2005 Grace Jean	Games Are Gaining Ground, But How Far Can They Go? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency looks toward simulation systems to teach soldiers about the tradeoffs involved in rebuilding Iraq.
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Predicting the Outcome of War: Can Science Help? Digital simulations are staples of military war games. They can be used to recreate just about every aspect of combat. But simulating the complex scenarios of "irregular" warfare is one of the toughest challenges that the Defense Department now faces.
National Defense May 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell	Successful Net-Centric Operations Require Joint Testing The wars U.S. forces are fighting today---and can be expected to fight in the foreseeable future---undoubtedly are shaping the military services' requirements for new and improved technology.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 John McHale	Army and SAIC Enhance Military Training and Simulation with Engenuity's AI.implant Tool This combination will bring enhanced realism and efficiency to military simulations.
National Defense March 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	War Lessons Should Not Be Politicized, Says CENTCOM Chief The organization in charge of gathering and reporting those lessons, the U.S. Joint Forces Command, deployed teams and embedded them with units in the field to get a first-hand look at the operations.
National Defense August 2007 Grace Jean	Defense Technologies for an Uncertain Future The United States is at a crossroads when it comes to developing defense technologies for a future that seems obscure at best.
National Defense August 2007 James A. Gavrilis	Army Must Embrace Unconventional Fight Even a major unconventional campaign such as Iraq can have major conventional operations as part of it. In war the two are not mutually exclusive. The trick is finding the right mix.
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Battlefield Information Glut Not Always Useful to Soldiers The U.S. military services need to find better ways to collect and manage intelligence in complex urban war zones, according to U.S. Joint Forces Command studies.
National Defense July 2007 Grace Jean	Investments Should Target Urban Warfare Despite all the leaps and bounds the nation has made in defense technologies to claim military dominance, there is still one domain that has proven elusive: the urban battlefield.
National Defense May 2010 Austin Wright	Recruits Expect, But Don't Always Get, Cutting-Edge Training Simulations Many military recruits grew up playing video games, and they expect training simulations to stack up with the latest Xbox or PlayStation products.
National Defense December 2009 Grace V. Jean	To Train Troops, Army Creates Digital Reenactments of Roadside Bomb Attacks Video footage of insurgents burying improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, is among the data collected by analysts who are assisting simulation experts at the joint training counter-IED operations integration center.
National Defense March 2006 Grace Jean	Urban Battlefield is Proving Ground For Unmanned Aerial Systems Demand for smaller and more capable aircraft systems continues to grow but analysts say that in order to make these aircraft more effective in the urban environment, a fistful of technology improvements are needed.
National Defense February 2007 Grace Jean	Lack of Military-Civilian Coordination Hinders War-Zone Rebuilding Efforts Civilian groups that play critical roles in the rebuilding of Iraq have no clear guidance for how to coordinate their efforts with the military.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Training for the War on Terror Military personnel throughout the ranks hone their skills with advanced training and simulation systems.
National Defense December 2009 Shea, Willadsen & Lashlee	Military in Korea Expands Use of Simulations in War Games More so than in most other places, modeling and simulation are critical to training in Korea.
National Defense March 2008 Stew Magnuson	Goal of a `Network-Centric' Military Seems Distant Unblocking communications and data sharing barriers is necessary if the military will achieve its longtime goal of becoming a network-centric force.
National Defense February 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Training to Shift Emphasis to Dismounted Soldier The Army's training programs have been too vehicle-centric and have not focused enough on the dismounted soldier, particularly in urban combat. That will change in the future, said Brig. Gen. Stephen Seay, Army program executive officer for simulation, training and instrumentation.
National Defense April 2005 Harold Kennedy	Special Operations Command Plans for Expanded Role in U.S. War on Terrorism The new role for special operations forces would not interfere with the U.S. Central Command's leadership in Iraq or Afghanistan.
National Defense December 2005 Michael Peck	Joint Staff Officers Often Unprepared for New Jobs Military officers assigned to newly-created "joint staff" jobs arrive with little or no training on how to function in a multi-service environment.
National Defense April 2009 Grace V. Jean	U.S. Special Operations Command Seeks Culturally Attuned Warriors Candidates who hope to join the Army's Special Forces, whether recruited from the services or other programs, will face higher standards in training.
National Defense April 2004 Roxana Tiron	Computer Simulations Bolster Joint-Service Combat Training Connecting combat simulations in real time, so commanders and war planners from all services can train together, has proved to be a tough technical issue for the Defense Department. Last year, the Pentagon cancelled the multibillion-dollar Joint Simulation Systems program, as a result of cost overruns and poor performance.
National Defense August 2006 Grace Jean	Disjointed Defense Simulation Programs Prompt Reorganization The increasing demand for virtual training and war gaming has prompted the Defense Department to reorganize how it manages modeling and simulation.
National Defense December 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Dept. Shifts Course In Procurement of Simulations Pentagon officials are rethinking their approach to managing war-gaming simulation programs in a move to avoid costly missteps that led to the cancellation of a billion-dollar project a year ago.
National Defense July 2013 Valerie Insinna	Simulation, Gaming Sector Plagued by Fiscal Challenges Restrictions on the travel of government officials gutted the Defense GameTech Users Conference in Orlando, Fla. Conference attendance, which aims to increase the use of serious games by the Defense Department, dropped to a third of the previous year's show.
National Defense February 2009 Stew Magnuson	Soldiers At Lowest Ranks Need Better Cultural Training, Officers Say Trainees must make tough life-or-death decisions, such as what to do when they burst through a door and find a family inside. Are these innocent civilians or insurgents? Should they pull the trigger?
Parameters Winter 2005/2006 Mitchell J. Thompson	Breaking the Proconsulate: A New Design for National Power There have been few truly transformational changes to the institutions of national security, only slight modifications to the existing ones.
National Defense February 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Foreign Policy Ambition Overlooks War Lessons The Obama administration has endorsed a major expansion of ground forces, and a surge in military capabilities to conduct "irregular" warfare against non-state actors.
National Defense September 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Engineers Ponder `Modest Adjustments' for Connecting Forces Incompatible weapon systems and disjointed information networks continue to be a source of frustration at the Defense Department.
National Defense June 2006 Grace Jean	Commandos see expanded mission portfolio To boost its unconventional warfare capabilities, Canada is revamping its special operations military organization and emphasizing counter-terrorism skills in elite unit training programs.
National Defense August 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Future War: How The Game is Changing "It's hard to concentrate on a grand strategy when your house is on fire," said Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, head of U.S. Joint Forces Command. Even as they cope with the frantic demands of two major wars, military leaders say they have a clearer sense of the future than they did in the 1990s.
Parameters Autumn 2007 Gregory L. Cantwell	Nation-Building: A Joint Enterprise When America's Army is at war, is the nation also at war?
National Defense December 2007 Stew Magnuson	U.S. Military Still Struggling to Understand Urban Environment Even after four years of combat in Iraq, industry and the Pentagon seem slow to catch up to the demands of urban war.
National Defense November 2007 Stew Magnuson	Units That Work With Civilians Often Disregarded, Soldiers Claim Experienced military troops who are trained to communicate with foreign audiences are neglected and underutilized, argue the authors of "United States Special Operations Command," a new book that is sparking debate within the special operations community.
National Defense April 2004 Mike Cast	Army-Led Team Probes Joint Logistics Gaps The U.S. Army Developmental Test Command is sponsoring a test and evaluation program aimed at improving joint logistics processes.
Parameters Autumn 2006 Michael R. Melillo	Outfitting a Big-War Military with Small-War Capabilities Unfortunately, it took the tragedy of 9/11 and the challenges posed by an adaptive enemy for the U.S. to realize it was not prepared to fight war on terms other than its own choosing.
National Defense December 2004 Michael Peck	Quick Mission Rehearsals Goal of Joint Training Slashing the rehearsal time needed for joint training missions from months to days is one of the goals of the joint national training capability (JNTC), a concept designed to move joint warfare from rhetoric to reality.
National Defense December 2009 Grace V. Jean	Army to Create Education Programs for Soldiers Who Are Too Busy to Go to School Repeated deployments have kept soldiers away from schoolhouses. But the Army still believes there are ways to provide learning opportunities outside of the traditional education system.
National Defense February 2010 Grace V. Jean	Army's Anthropology Teams Under Fire, But in Demand The military's lack of knowledge of the Iraqi population and its socio-cultural dynamics was one of the key failings of U.S. policy that led to the rise of insurgency there.
National Defense June 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	More Than Technology Is Needed to Win Wars As events unfold in Iraq, much second-guessing goes on in Washington, not just about the overall U.S. strategy or lack thereof, but also on whether the hundreds of billions of dollars allocated every year to weapon systems are being spent on the right things.
National Defense December 2004 Harold Kennedy	Military Steps Up Training For Joint Close-Air Support The U.S. Joint Forces Command is increasing its efforts to ensure that aviators from all military services follow the same procedures when they provide joint close-air support to ground troops during combat.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 Ben Ames	Tactical military communications spending to grow to $5.7 billion by 2010 Immediate operational needs for ground forces fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, with the transformation of the force structure to adopt network-centric warfare, is driving U.S. military forces to spend billions of dollars on digital tactical military communications.
National Defense February 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Training and Simulation Industry Optimistic About Future Opportunities Smaller defense budgets are forcing the military to conduct fewer costly live exercises and instead put troops in the cockpits and drivers' seats of more affordable simulators.
National Defense February 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Special Operations Recreated in Afghanistan Battle Simulation The goal of the project, run by the Institute for Defense Analysis and DARPA, was to faithfully recreate the operations that liberated Mazar e-Sharif and drove Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters from northern Afghanistan.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Wanted: Soldiers With Cultural Savvy One of the catchphrases in Army circles these days is "culture training."
National Defense December 2007 Breanne Wagner	Simulations Promise Better Training for Combat Medics As improvised explosive devices continue to claim lives and maim troops, a new market has emerged for medical simulations to train combat medics.
National Defense June 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Redefining Combat Among the hard lessons the U.S. Army is learning in Iraq is that the line between "major combat" and "stability operations" is blurred, at best, and that the enemy gets to decide when the war is finally over.
National Defense August 2006 David Axe	Training Center Simulates Army's Digital Battle Command Technology A new high-tech facility will allow Army planners to concoct realistic training scenarios for units heading to Iraq. These advanced computer networks will connect real-world Army battle-command and control systems with digital simulations.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Combat training with COTS Developers of military simulation and training systems and solutions are tapping commercial off-the-shelf technology to keep costs in check and take advantage of commercial hardware and software innovations.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 Ben Ames	Military Warns Contractors About Pitfalls of Joint Weapons Design Pentagon planners are pushing the different service branches to share equipment and split the cost of customized-weapons development. This joint operation will help transform the American military into a lighter, faster force, they say.
National Defense December 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Air Force Sets Sights on `Airman of the Future' Video Games Gaming technologies, officials say, would allow the Air Force to broaden the training options available to airmen, and would help the service save money by shifting flying time from real aircraft to simulators.