Asia Pacific Defense Forum Winter 2002

JWID 2002 scenario at HQ, U.S. Pacific Command’s Exercise Simulation Center Pacific

New Zealand (NZ) Army Lt. Col. Peter Wood, Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion, Royal NZ Infantry Regiment and JWID Combined Task Force Intelligence Officer, briefs (L to R): Mr. Warwick, Royal NZ Navy; Mr. Ron Hooten, New Zealand Defence Force Chief Information Officer; and Air Commodore Graham Lintott, Air Component Commander, HQ Joint Forces NZ, on JWID 2002 scenario at HQ, U.S. Pacific Command’s Exercise Simulation Center Pacific

Air Commodore Pradeep Vasant Naik, Indian Air Force, receives a JWID 2002 demonstration from Mr. Ralph Alexander, Technical Director Coalition Theater, Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration, USPACOM Coalition Theater Logistics.

Today, JWID has an even greater importance helping to solve issues that will improve coalition operations. Your efforts will directly support our efforts in the Global War on Terrorism.

Lt. Gen. Juseph K. Kellogg, Jr.
Director COmmand, Control, Communications, and Computer Systems U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff

The JWID 2002 scenario provided the CTF and its components the flexibility to support JWID tests and demonstrations through the full range of military operations. The scenario portrayed a conflict between different factions on an island country in the Pacific Ocean. The conflict had destabilized the region to the point of requiring a UN mandated CTF. The script divided CTF operations into phases that take the CTF from insertion, to transition, to a stable peacekeeping operation.

The May demonstrations at USPACOM HQ also showcased USPACOM’s Pacific Theater Initiative (PTI) that complements JWID 2002. PTI was created to introduce USPACOM’s Asia-Pacific coalition partners to JWID and to provide a venue for these partners to participate in interoperability testing and demonstrations. PTI emulates the NATO methodology of stand alone JWID investigations. This allows new countries to emerge in a "crawl, walk, run" effort, testing new technology and showcasing challenges in the Asia-Pacific region. PTI participant nations were Australia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States. India, Malaysia, and the Philippines sent observers

Compiled by Asia-Pacific Defense FORUM staff from materials provided by the Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration Task Force, HQ, U.S. Pacific Command, Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii