Emerging technologies and new strategies may result in as much as a tenfold increase in the U.S. mili-tary's operations planning capabilities. In what has been touted as the largest military experiment in history, participants analyzed how the armed forces will fight in the future and what tools they will need to wage war more effectively. Although many of the systems and concepts are aimed at a 2007 battlespace, several of them may bring more immediate benefits for warfighters. Millennium Challenge 2002 (MC 02), a three-week experiment sponsored by the U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM), Norfolk, Virginia, tested and validated joint and service-specific experimental warfighting concepts (SIGNAL, July, page 51). More than 13,000 participants in nine live-force locations and 17 simulation locations across the United States took part in the experiment that included both fielded and computer-generated forces. In addition to the concepts, experimenters examined the capabilities of individual technologies.
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