Details will be forthcoming in future current awareness bulletins. WPC employees typically work with corps level and higher staff. They run distributed exercises to remote sites, usually the exercise headquarters command posts. Training exercises are scheduled a year or more in advance. During that year training objectives are established and the desired scenarios to accomplish those objectives are designed.
Exercises typically last a week and operate around the clock.
The confederation models simulate air, land and sea combat, as well as EW, C2 and logistics. Depending on the objectives of a simulation, not all models are used in each exercise. Currently, confederation models do not simulate combat events at high fidelity because the Center tries to simulate an entire theater, not just a single engagement. The lower fidelity also helps to keep the models running in real time, a must since the Center's primary objective is to provide training for the exercise battle staff, not necessarily to produce detailed engagement results. We discussed the key factors in air combat, including relative importance and weighting.