Joint Training, Exercise and Evaluation Program (JTEEP)

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These programs support readiness of the joint force by creating a joint training environment to replicate the complex and changing operational environment. These investments directly support defense strategic guidance, Joint Operational Training Infrastructure strategy, and enhance joint warfighting readiness by building training capabilities that support the operational readiness of the joint force. The elements associated with this coordinated effort consist of: JNTC: The mission of the Joint National Training Capability (JNTC) program is to advance joint capabilities and interoperability by concentrating on emerging joint training requirements through collective training using a managed set of globally distributed capabilities and activities. The program resources Service and Special Operations Forces joint training to improve interoperability and create realistic tactical and operational joint training. JNTC enables joint training for Combatant Commands and Services by developing joint training content and ensuring global distributed access. JNTC enabling capabilities support Services and USSOCOM requirements to provide trained and ready joint forces in support of Combatant Command operational requirements. The program supports the Joint Operational Training Infrastructure (JOTI). This program focuses efforts on improving readiness and creates a ready surge force consistent with Chairman’s guidance and will provide the means to train joint forces for the operationalization of the Joint Warfighting Concept. JKDDC: Joint Knowledge Development & Distribution Capability (JKDDC) Joint Knowledge Online (JKO) is the program of record for online joint training that implements and operationalizes the OSD training transformation JKDDC. JKO directly supports the JTEEP program by developing, delivering, tracking, reporting, and supporting online training for Combatant Command exercises; Combatant Command required training; doctrinally based Joint Operations Core Curriculum; multinational, coalition, interagency training; OSD required training; and administration of the Senior Enlisted Joint Professional Military Education program. JKO expends RDT&E funding for leading edge technology review, market research, and integration to directly enhance various aspects of the training capability required to support Combatant Commanders, JTEEP program objectives, and the Chairman's joint training guidance. JKO satisfies all requirements necessary to provide JTEEP stakeholders with a distributed learning capability and access to web-based training content, learning resources, and distributed online training tools. Air Force Joint National Training Center (JNTC): Air Force JNTC funding provides a focused upgrade to develop models for space-based and cyber capabilities for integration into the Joint Live, Virtual, and Constructive (JLVC) environment as well supporting development of cross-domain solutions. Additionally, the Air Force invests in development of capabilities to enhance the rigor and fidelity of training for live and virtual members of joint training audiences. Navy JNTC: These funds enable Navy to develop unique maritime capabilities that integrate JLVC elements into a seamless joint training environment. The Navy program activities include conducting research, development, and integration of a common, realistic, joint and coalition, operational to tactical level training architecture to deliver individual and collective constructive joint training for use in Fleet Synthetic Training (FST) events, CCDR exercises, Ballistic Missile Defense Exercises (BMDEX) certification events, and BMD at Sea training events in support of CCDR’s training, deployment certification and operational requirements. Marine Corps JNTC: These funds provide USMC stability and risk reduction to a variety of ongoing joint efforts focused on improving the fidelity and realism of training simulation systems that prepare Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) units for deployment in support of CCMD operations. Efforts align with JOTI Strategy Goal #1, Improve the use of LVC training and support the Commandant’s planning guidance. The Marine Corps will continue to improve performance and support of the MAGTF Tactical Warfare Simulation in the areas of the JLVC-Multi- Resolution Federation (MRF) Bridge, common database terrain data ingestion, and JLVC interoperability. It will provide a single source training environment capability enabling users to select single or multiple play boxes (terrain data sets) for training simulation systems. Also developing an exercise planning, design, implementation, execution, and control tool. LSGE: Large Scale Global Exercises (LSGE) initiative facilitates LVC technical projects, architecture integration, and interface development required to enable Field Training Exercises (FTX) and Command Post Exercises (CPX) to achieve LGSE objectives. During LSGE execution, CCMD exercises as part of the JTEEP, tier 3 and 4 FTX exercises are frequently nested within the overall Tier 1 and 2 CPX exercises. Integrating LVC within FTX tactical exercise and CPX operational exercise requires new development efforts for LVC capabilities, LVC architectures, datasets, integration, and interfaces to create an LVC operational environment for training. This funding will address refining LVC requirements, architecture design, new integrations, and capability and interface development to close joint operational training gaps critical to LSGE joint training. This targets the integration of the Military Service Title X LVC training to enable LGSE LVC joint training. Joint Staff Live, Virtual and Constructive Modernization: This funding supports the Department's priorities to defend the homeland, deter strategic attacks and aggression, prevail in conflict, build enduring advantage, and build a resilient and ready joint force and defense eco system. China has greatly increased the urgency for realism of joint training using JLVC to improve readiness and interoperability, unearth operational weaknesses to train a joint force to key operational problems. The Joint Live, Virtual and Constructive (JLVC) Modernization project seeks out, develops, and integrates training technologies to provide a reliable, realistic, relevant, repeatable, and recordable training environment to train joint warfighters to successfully execute operational plans (OPLANs). Through analysis driven by a threat-informed China task force study in 2022, the Joint force lacks the training enterprise capability and technical architecture required to provide all-domain, high-end training for globally operations. Aligned with the National Defense Strategy, JLVC Modernization is critical to ensure the Department of Defense (DoD) can close joint operational training gaps, provide a key enabler for the Pacific Multi-Domain Training and Experimentation Capability, provide training for advanced systems that cannot be realistically trained in live environments, provide training for future capabilities the force must be prepared to employ, and to build the readiness of a more lethal force. To meet this objective, the JLVC Modernization project performs the following activities: •Exploit new technologies and leverage industry advances in equipment, modeling and simulation, and networks support the joint training enterprise •Expedite the transition and integration of new training technologies (simulations, network, range integration) from Services, Industry, and Academic environments to the joint training enterprise •Establish data standards to enable the transition to a data-centric architecture, aligned to CJADC2, ensuring consistency and provide ‘analytic ready’ data to support all domain training; implement Joint LVC interoperability standards to enable all domain joint force training across LVC training ranges •Develop and integrate a fully-informed (Program to S/REL) Space, Cyber, Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS), and 5th/6th Gen synthetic capabilities for the joint training enterprise •Work with CCMDs and Services to optimize existing service programs while beginning to develop Next Generation simulations and simulators that are inherently interoperable across warfighting and security domains •Advance the use of innovative applications of Artificial Intelligence for scenario generation, dynamic threat, smart opposing force (OPFOR), and after-action review (AAR) for the joint training enterprise Additionally, the JLVC Modernization project examines emerging joint training requirements resulting from new operational concepts, wargames, experiments, and exercises to identify training technology needs and develop a long-range roadmap for technology insertion into the joint training enterprise. The project leverages and employs applicable applied research efforts from the highly developed technology base in the DoD/DOE laboratories, Service System engineering Centers, test and evaluation centers, other Government agencies, and industry to accelerate development and integration of new training capabilities. The project outreaches and engages Academia to address joint training technology challenges in DoD. This program provides travel funds for JLVC Modernization project oversight, special studies, analyses, and strategic planning related to modernization of training capabilities and infrastructure.

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Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date: Oct 01, 2025
Source ID: 0804768J_6_0400_PB_2025
Change Summary Explanation: Congressional defense-wide reduction to Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) funding, and a directed Congressional reduction (-3.991M) to this Program Element in FY 2023. Increased FY 2024 funding reflects the Secretary's direction on the Large Scale Global Exercise (LSGE), funding for Joint Staff Joint Live, Virtual and Constructive (JLVC) modernization, and a minor adjustment to comply with the Department's economic assumptions. Primary focus of the LSGE program is to ensure the joint training synthetic environment is optimized and responsive for the coordinating authority to conduct LSGE at a time and place of their choosing uninhibited by current training architecture shortfalls. JLVC Modernization project focus is to modernize joint LVC-enabled training to provide realism for a China threat to present the complex key operational problems the joint force may face in protracted crisis or conflict. The project will modernize the entire JLVC synthetic training environment after 15+ years of ‘life support’ sustainment, as our warfighting capabilities evolved and modernized. The life support sustainment has left critical joint operational training gaps, identified in the China Task Force Study, that seriously impacts the joint force’s ability to conduct realistic and relevant Joint training against a China threats. JLVC Modernization is a VCJCS and OSD priority, and 2022 Deputy Secretary of Defense directed project to begin the modernization to begin realistically representing current and future friendly and enemy capabilities in all domains to enable joint warfighters to successfully train to conduct globally operations. JLVC Modernization transitions our synthetic environment to a modern data-centric modular open systems architecture that aligns to DoD IT Modernization, Data, and Zero Trust Strategies.
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